Joshua
Whitehead
Joshua Whitehead is the author of the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer, which was shortlisted for an Indigenous Voices Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. He was a finalist for the 2018 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers. His novel, Jonny Appleseed, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, and won the 2021 edition of CBC Canada Reads. His work has been published in Prairie Fire, CV2, EVENT, The Fiddlehead, Grain, CNQ, and Red Rising Magazine. Whitehead is a Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation, Treaty 1/Manitoba. He is an assistant professor at the University of Calgary in Treaty 7/Alberta.
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“A collection that summons the reader into moving explorations of care and kinship with the land and with one another, Making Love with the Land is a lyrical, personal journey to be savoured. Refusing the demands of categorization, Whitehead’s beautiful book is equal parts arresting, inviting, and challenging. He writes with fluid dexterity in the English language, while acknowledging the complexity of creating and living in a language that is not always enough.”
