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Jas M. Morgan
Morgan before 2S Ball 2019 - Ottawa
Occupation	Writer, professor
Language	English
Nationality	Canadian, Cree, Métis, Saulteaux
Alma mater	McGill University

Jas M. Morgan is an Indigenous Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers in 2019.

Biography

Morgan, of Cree, Saulteaux and Métis heritage, is a professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University. They are also a doctoral student in art history at McGill University, and Editor-at-Large on Indigenous art for Canadian Art magazine.

Their first book, nîtisânak, was published in 2018, and was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards, and for the Indigenous Voices Award for English-language literature. They were identified as a Canadian writer to watch by CBC Books in 2019.

They previously worked as editor for mâmawi-âcimowak, an Indigenous art journal. Their writing has also appeared in GUTS, Malahat Review, Teen Vogue, Room, and other popular publications. In 2019 they served as one of the CBC Nonfiction Prize readers. Additionally, Morgan curated the 2019 Arts and Literary Magazines Summit.

Awards

Bibliography

• —— (2016). Critical Sass. bawajigaywin.
• —— (2018). nîtisânak. Metonymy Press. ISBN 9780994047175.

Academic Publishing

• —— (2018). Prairie Families: Cree-Métis-Saulteux Materialities as Indigenous feminist Materialist Record of Kinship-Based Selfhood (Master of Arts Thesis).
• —— (2018). "I Wonder Where They Went: Post-Reality Multiplicities and Counter-Resurgent Narratives in Thirza Cuthand's Lessons in Baby Dyke Theory". Canadian Theatre Review (175): 47–51.
• —— (2019). "Toward a Relational Historicization of Indigenous Art". Art Journal. 77 (4): 127–128.
• —— (July 2019). "Distorted Love: Mapplethorpe, the Neo/Classical Sculptural Black Nude, and Visual Cultures of Transatlantic Enslavement". Imaginations.

References

1. "'This is who I am': How young Indigenous artists are regenerating their roots".
2. "Jas M. Morgan". Writers' Trust of Canada. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
3. "Jas Morgan". Toronto Metropolitan University. Archived from the original on 2023-07-17. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
4. ^ Huard, Adrienne. "The Vibrational Effects of Indigenous Burlesque". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
5. CBC Books (July 1, 2019). "19 Canadian writers to watch in 2019". CBC books. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
6. ^ "About". Jas M. Morgan. 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
7. "The Bridge with Nantali Indongo".
8. "Jas Morgan". Toronto Metropolitan University. Archived from the original on 2023-07-17. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
9. "Critical Sass Press: bawajigaywin". Jas M. Morgan. 2016-08-20. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
10. "Press kit: nîtisânak by Jas M Morgan". Metonymy Press. Retrieved 2024-02-01.

• Living people
• 21st-century First Nations writers
• Canadian art critics
• Canadian magazine editors
• Canadian magazine writers
• Cree writers
• LGBTQ First Nations people
• Non-binary memoirists
• Canadian LGBTQ poets
• Saulteaux people
• 21st-century Canadian memoirists
• 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
• McGill University alumni
• Canadian non-binary writers
• Canadian Métis people