2025 Festival: October 20–26
Books & Ideas runs until Spring!

Billy-Ray Belcourt

(Driftpile Cree Nation/British Columbia)

BILLY-RAY BELCOURT (he/him) is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection, This Wound Is a World. His memoir, A History of My Brief Body, won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. Belcourt is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Creative Writing at UBC.

2024 Reading List: