Joshua Whitehead

JOSHUA WHITEHEAD is an Oji-Cree/nehiyaw, Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of the bestselling novel Jonny Appleseed (2018), which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award, and won Canada Reads and a Lambda Literary Award; and the poetry col lection full-metal indigiqueer (2017). In 2016, he won the Governor General's History Award for the Indigenous Arts and Stories Challenge. He is also...See more

JOSHUA WHITEHEAD is an Oji-Cree/nehiyaw, Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of the bestselling novel Jonny Appleseed (2018), which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award, and won Canada Reads and a Lambda Literary Award; and the poetry col lection full-metal indigiqueer (2017). In 2016, he won the Governor General's History Award for the Indigenous Arts and Stories Challenge. He is also the editor of Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Specula tive Fiction . Whitehead is an Assistant Professor of English and Indigenous Studies at the Uni versity of Calgary (Treaty 7). He lives in Calgary, Alberta. See less