nîtisânak

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By Jas M. Morgan

Fall 2018

Winner of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers
Winner of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Concordia University First Book Prize
Quebec Writers’ Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, Finalist
Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English, Finalist
Lambda Literary Awards for Lesbian Biography/Memoir, Finalist

Jas M. Morgan’s nîtisânak honours blood and chosen kin with equal care. A groundbreaking memoir spanning nations, prairie punk scenes, and queer love stories, it is woven around grief over the loss of their mother. It also explores despair and healing through community and family, and being torn apart by the same. Using cyclical narrative techniques and drawing on their Cree, Saulteaux, and Métis ancestral teachings, this work offers a compelling perspective on the connections that must be broken and the ones that heal.

Jas M. Morgan is a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux curator, award-nominated editor, award-nominated writer, and McGill Art History PhD student. They held the position of Editor-at-Large for Canadian Art. Nixon has previously edited mâmawi­-âcimowak, an independent art, art criticism, and literature journal, and their writing has appeared in Malahat Review, Room, GUTS, MICE, esse, Inuit Art Quarterly, Teen Vogue, and other publications.