Haisla/Heiltsuk author Eden Robinson’s collection of short stories, Traplines, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998. Monkey Beach, her first novel, was shortlisted for both The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2000 and won the BC Book Prize’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her novel Son of a Trickster was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Trickster Drift, its sequel, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. The final book in the Trickster series, Return of the Trickster, was published 2021.

Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit writer and academic from Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks 2017), Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp 2018), Making Love with the Land (Knopf 2022), and Indigiqueerness: a Conversation about Storytelling (Athabasca UP 2023) as well as the editor of Love after the End: an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (Arsenal 2020). Currently, Whitehead is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary (Treaty 7) where he is housed in the departments of English and International Indigenous Studies.

Smaro Kamboureli is the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she has pub­lished extensively on Canadian literature. The author of Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada, winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Literary Criticism, and of On the Edge of Genre: The Contempo­rary Canadian Long Poem, she has also edited or co-edited over twenty vol­umes of essays, including Lee Maracle's Memory Serves: Oratories. Her most recent publication is Land/Relations: Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Lit­eratures, co-edited with Larissa Lai (2023).

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