BILLY-RAY BELCOURT (he/him) is a writer from the Driftpile Cree Nation.
He won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize for his debut collection, This Wound Is a World, which was also a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. His bestselling memoir, A History of My Brief Body, won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Governor General's Literary Award. A recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship and an Indspire Award, Belcourt is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Creative Writing at UBC.
To see more about Billy-Ray's work please visit his website at: https://billy-raybelcourt.com/
Coexistence (May 2024) is a book of poems and stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt about Indigenous love and loneliness from one of contemporary literature’s most boundless minds. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/2193422/billy-ray-belcourt
Come listen to the author read and speak about his work in Squamish - On June 11th - Eagle Eye Community Theatre 6:30pm- 8pm https://events.squamishlibrary.ca/event/10762468
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