Bio
Angie Elita Newell is a registered Indian and a proud member of the Liidlii Kue Nation. Author of the award-winning and critically acclaimed novel ALL I SEE IS VIOLENCE, Trained historian Angie Elita Newell has written an intense, poignant, action-packed dramatization of history that leaves readers seeing Indigenous people and history forever differently.
The cover art of ALL I SEE IS VIOLENCE has captivated attention on social media with viral TIKTOK posts and was the recipient of the 2024 IPPY Award for Best Cover Design.
She has received critical acclaim for her historical novel, All I See Is Violence, from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly BookLife, Clarion Foreword, and Readers’ Favorite. She has also received awards recognition, including IBPA Book Awards Gold Medal Winner in General Fiction; IBPA Book Awards Gold Winner: General Fiction; and Next Generation Indies Book Awards Finalist, Fiction.
Newell has been featured in Huff Post Books Newsletter, BuzzFeed Newsletter, Book Reader Magazine and on Good Day Austin – Fox TV
Newell was a high school dropout but would later return to attend university in England and Canada, earning degrees in creative writing, English literature, and Indigenous History of North America. Newell was the only Indigenous historian to graduate from her school of 23,000. She is a historian who has held an assistant position at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.
Under Canadian law, as an Indian, at birth, she was separated from her parents and six siblings, and adopted by a horrible couple. She was forced to attend a Canadian Indian residential school. She found out several of her siblings hit hard times – one is in prison, and two others suffer from substance abuse. Her birth dad was a trucker who died in a car accident at age 27. Her birth mom died at age 30 from a pulmonary aneurysm. Her mom was a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot, one of the few to be Indigenous and female
She is raising her two daughters as a single mother and resides in Vancouver.