Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation in North West Alberta, Canada. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is the author of six books, three of poetry and three of prose. He is the youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, for his debut collection This Wound is a World. In 2015, he was named the first-ever First Nations Rhodes Scholar from Canada. He has been long-listed for the Dublin International Literary Award and a two-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. He has been nominated for several major literary awards in Canada.
