Jas M. Morgan
Morgan before 2S Ball 2019 - Ottawa
Morgan before 2S Ball 2019 - Ottawa
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityCanadian, Cree, Métis, Saulteaux
Alma materMcGill University

Jas M. Morgan is an Indigenous Canadian writer,[1] who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers in 2019.[2]

Morgan, of Cree, Saulteaux and Métis heritage, is a professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University.[3] They are also a doctoral student in art history at McGill University, and Editor-at-Large on Indigenous art for Canadian Art magazine.[4] Their first book, Nîtisânak, was published in 2018, and was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards,[5] and for the Indigenous Voices Award for English-language literature.[6] They were identified as a Canadian writer to watch by CBC Books in 2019.[7]

They previously worked as editor for mâmawi-âcimowak, an Indigenous art journal.[8] Their writing has also appeared in GUTS, Malahat Review, Teen Vogue, Room, and other popular publications.[1] In 2019 they served as one of the CBC Nonfiction Prize readers.[9] Additionally, Morgan curated the 2019 Arts and Literary Magazines Summit.[10]

Bibliography

  • nîtisânak (memoir, 2018, published by Metonymy Press)
  • Critical Sass (poems, 2016, published by bawajigaywin)

Academic Publishing

  • "Distorted Love:Mapplethorpe, the Neo/Classical Sculptural Black Nude, and Visual Cultures of Transatlantic Enslavement," Imaginations, July 2019.
  • "Toward a Relational Historicization of Indigenous Art," Art Journal 77 no. 4 (2019): 127–128.
  • Prairie Families: Cree-Métis-Saulteux Materialities as Indigenous feminist Materialist Record of Kinship-Based Selfhood" (Master of Arts Thesis, 2018).
  • "I Wonder Where They Went": Post-Reality Multiplicities and Counter-Resurgent Narratives in Thirza Cuthand's Lessons in Baby Dyke Theory," Canadian Theatre Review 175 (2018): 47-51.

Awards

  • Dayne Ogilive Prize, Writers' Trust of Canada (2019)[2]
  • Finalist, Lesbian Memoir/Biography Category, Lambda Literary Award (2019)[11]
  • Finalist, Published Prose in English, Indigenous Voices Literary Award (2019)[12]
  • Nominated for nîtisânak, Concordia University First Book Prize, Quebec Writers' Federation Awards (2019)[13]
  • Nominated, Canadian Art Kinship issue edited by Nixon, Best Editorial Package, National Magazine Awards (2018).[14]
  • Best Digital Editorial Package, "Sex Ed: Beyond the Classroom" in The Walrus, Digital Publishing Awards, National Media Awards Foundation (2019).[15]

References

  1. 1 2 Gwen Benaway, "Interview: Lindsay Nixon". This Magazine, September 4, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Lindsay Nixon wins Dayne Ogilvie for LGBTQ writing". Quill & Quire, June 3, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Lindsay Nixon". Ryerson University. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
  4. ↑ "Canadian Art Appoints Indigenous Editor-at-Large, and Staff Writer". Canadian Art, January 12, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Vivek Shraya, Joshua Whitehead among Canadian finalists for Lambda Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, March 7, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Tanya Tagaq, Joshua Whitehead finalists in second annual Indigenous Voices Awards for books". Orangeville.com, May 16, 2019.
  7. ↑ CBC Books (July 1, 2019). "19 Canadian writers to watch in 2019". CBC books. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  8. ↑ "About". lindsay nixon. 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  9. ↑ "Meet the 2019 CBC Nonfiction Prize readers". CBC Books. September 17, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Lindsay Nixon to Curate the 2019 Arts & Literary Magazines Summit". Magazines Canada. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  11. ↑ "Announcing the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards Nominations". them. 7 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  12. ↑ "2019 Indigenous Voices Awards". www.lpg.ca. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  13. ↑ "Lindsay Nixon, Tess Liem shortlisted for Quebec Writers' Federation's Literary Awards". Quill and Quire. 2019-10-04. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  14. ↑ "Canadian Art Nominated for Two National Magazine Awards". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  15. ↑ Foundation, National Media Awards. "Announcing the Winners of the 2019 Digital Publishing Awards". www.newswire.ca. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
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