His debut novel, Jonny Appleseed, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2018. The book initially received a Lambda Literary Award nomination for Transgender Poetry at the 30th Lambda Literary Awards in 2018, although Whitehead withdrew the book from consideration as the category was a misrepresentation of his identity as a two-spirit, not transgender, person. Īfter he started graduate studies in indigenous literature at the University of Calgary, Talonbooks published his debut poetry collection Full-Metal Indigiqueer in 2017.

Īn Oji-Cree member of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, he began publishing poetry while pursuing undergraduate studies at the University of Winnipeg.

Joshua Whitehead is a Canadian First Nations, two spirit poet and novelist. Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Anthology (2021).Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction (Jonny Appleseed, 2018).He was also the winner of the Governor General’s History Award for the Indigenous Arts and Stories Challenge in 2016. He is the author of the novel Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018), which won a Lambda Literary Award, and the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks, 2017). But more than all of that, they guide us back to ourselves and to our relations on a shimmering trail of song and stardust.” -Daniel Heath Justiceīook notes: Paperback, fiction, 224 pages.Īuthor bio: Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-nêhiyaw, Two-Spirit (2SQ) member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1) in manitowapow. The stories here are difficult, they’re beautiful, they’re hilarious and sad and frightening and hopeful. And as editor Joshua Whitehead affirms in the introduction, Love After the End is a book we need right now-and well beyond the now. Our stories guide us forward into an ever-uncertain future, just as they guide us back home. With such a cacophony of anxiety, despair, and cynicism bearing down on us, it is sometimes easy to forget that Indigenous peoples have been here before, and we still remain to uphold our responsibilities to the world and to one another. An engineered bio-computing AI.”īig blurb: “The so-called end times feel so perilously close right now. Perfect pitch: A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed.įirst lines: “I am Abacus.

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