Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land

American Indian Studies
College of Ethnic Studies
San Francisco State University
Joshua Whitehead
Making Love with the Land
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
4:00 - 5:30 pm PST (Zoom)
Joshua Whitehead (he/him) is a Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary and is housed in the English and International Indigenous Studies Departments. He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks 2017) which was shortlisted for the inaugural Indigenous Voices Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. He is also the author of Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press 2018) which was long listed for the Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and Canada Reads 2021. Whitehead is currently working on a third manuscript titled, Making Love with the Land to be published with Knopf Canada, which explores the intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, and, most prominently, mental health through a nêhiyaw lens to be published in 2022. You can find his work published widely in such venues as Prairie Fire, CV2, EVENT, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Grain, CNQ, Write, and Red Rising Magazine.