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Jas M. Morgan is an Indigenous Canadian writer,[1] who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers in 2019.[2]

Jas M. Morgan
Morgan before 2S Ball 2019 - Ottawa
Occupation	Writer
Language	English
Nationality	Canadian, Cree, Métis, Saulteaux
Alma mater	McGill University

Morgan, of Cree, Saulteaux and Métis heritage, is a professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University.[3] They are also a doctoral student in art history at McGill University, and Editor-at-Large on Indigenous art for Canadian Art magazine.[4] Their first book, Nîtisânak, was published in 2018, and was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards,[5] and for the Indigenous Voices Award for English-language literature.[6] They were identified as a Canadian writer to watch by CBC Books in 2019.[7]

They previously worked as editor for mâmawi-âcimowak, an Indigenous art journal.[8] Their writing has also appeared in GUTS, Malahat Review, Teen Vogue, Room, and other popular publications.[1] In 2019 they served as one of the CBC Nonfiction Prize readers.[9] Additionally, Morgan curated the 2019 Arts and Literary Magazines Summit.[10]

Bibliography

• nîtisânak (memoir, 2018, published by Metonymy Press)
• Critical Sass (poems, 2016, published by bawajigaywin)

Academic Publishing

• "Distorted Love:Mapplethorpe, the Neo/Classical Sculptural Black Nude, and Visual Cultures of Transatlantic Enslavement," Imaginations, July 2019.
• "Toward a Relational Historicization of Indigenous Art," Art Journal 77 no. 4 (2019): 127–128.
• Prairie Families: Cree-Métis-Saulteux Materialities as Indigenous feminist Materialist Record of Kinship-Based Selfhood" (Master of Arts Thesis, 2018).
• "I Wonder Where They Went": Post-Reality Multiplicities and Counter-Resurgent Narratives in Thirza Cuthand's Lessons in Baby Dyke Theory," Canadian Theatre Review 175 (2018): 47-51.

Awards

• Dayne Ogilive Prize, Writers' Trust of Canada (2019)[2]
• Finalist, Lesbian Memoir/Biography Category, Lambda Literary Award (2019)[11]
• Finalist, Published Prose in English, Indigenous Voices Literary Award (2019)[12]
• Nominated for nîtisânak, Concordia University First Book Prize, Quebec Writers' Federation Awards (2019)[13]
• Nominated, Canadian Art Kinship issue edited by Nixon, Best Editorial Package, National Magazine Awards (2018).[14]
• Best Digital Editorial Package, "Sex Ed: Beyond the Classroom" in The Walrus, Digital Publishing Awards, National Media Awards Foundation (2019).[15]

References

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