Celebrated Cree author and Griffin Prize winner Billy-Ray Belcourt expands his bold, intimate body of work with Coexistence, stories of Indigenous love and loneliness, and The Idea of an Entire Life, poetry that explores queerness, grief, and the futures we dare imagine.
Billy-Ray Belcourt (he/him) is from the Driftpile Cree Nation in northwest Alberta. He won the Griffin Poetry Prize for his debut collection This Wound is a World. He has twice been nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award—once in poetry for the debut and in non-fiction for his memoir, A History of My Brief Body. Both his works of fiction, A Minor Chorus and Coexistence, were national bestsellers. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
