Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling

About Joshua Whitehead

Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree/nehiyaw Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of the bestselling novel Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press 2018) longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and winner of Canada Reads; and the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks 2017) which was the winner of the Governor General's History Award for the Indigenous Arts and Stories Challenge in 2016. He is also the editor of Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (Arsenal Pulp Press 2020). His next book is a work of creative non-fiction entitled Making Love with the Land that details mental health queerness and Indigeneity and is forthcoming with Knopf Canada. Angie Abdou is the author of seven books and co-editor of Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature. Her first novel The Bone Cage was a Canada Reads finalist. Her two memoirs on youth sport hit the Canadian best-seller list. Abdou is associate professor of Creative Writing at Athabasca University and a nationally certified swim coach.