My name is Susan Clarahan; I was raised by a river in the Rocky Mountains of Treaty 7 Territory. Clarahan is an Irish name, my maternal side is Hungarian. Most of what I know comes from a mountain valley in Canmore, Alberta, the homeland of the Stoney Nakoda, Blackfoot, Tsuut’ina, and Kootenai Nations. I am grateful to the friends and teachers who have shaped my research and practice, and to the landscapes and more-than-human relations of this region, whose flora and fauna, seasonal rhythms, weather patterns, and glacial terrain I know through an intimate, intersubjective relationship and experience.
I approach this work as offering, with a reverence for everything that has come before, and to consider the effects downstream — I know I am a small stream in the big river of ideas and stories.
If you want to be in touch, my email is susan.clarahan @ gmail .com