Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is the author of 6 books, including the Griffin Poetry Prize–winning debut This Wound Is a World. Belcourt serves the Canada Research Chair in Queer Indigenous Cultural Production at the University of British Columbia, edits poetry for Hazlitt, and is the founder of oteh nîkân, an online magazine of LGBTQ2S+ Indigenous writing.
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