Jas M. Morgan

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

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

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. Gwen Benaway, "Interview: Lindsay Nixon". This Magazine, September 4, 2018.
  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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