2024 Festival:
October 21–27

Joshua Whitehead

(ALBERTA/MANITOBA)

JOSHUA WHITEHEAD is an Oji-Cree/nêhiyaw, Two-Spirit/ Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He’s the author of the Canada Reads-winning novel Jonny Appleseed, and the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer, shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award. Making Love with the Land is Whitehead’s much-anticipated work of non-fiction. (ALBERTA/MANITOBA)

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