Joshua Whitehead
Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer, Jonny Appleseed, and Making Love with the Land, and the editor of Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. He has been a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers, the Giller Prize, a Governor General’s Literary Award, and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Whitehead currently serves as an assistant professor at the University of Calgary (Treaty 7), where he holds a Research Excellence Chair in the departments of English and International Indigenous Studies.
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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.”
