Jas M. Morgan

Jas M. Morgan is an Indigenous Canadian writer,^[1] who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers in 2019.^[2]

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

Biography

Morgan, of Cree, Saulteaux and Métis heritage, is a professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University.^[3] They are also a doctoral student in art history at McGill University, and Editor-at-Large on Indigenous art for Canadian Art magazine.^[4]

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,^[4] and for the Indigenous Voices Award for English-language literature.^[4] They were identified as a Canadian writer to watch by CBC Books in 2019.^[5]

They previously worked as editor for mâmawi-âcimowak, an Indigenous art journal.^[6] Their writing has also appeared in GUTS, Malahat Review, Teen Vogue, Room, and other popular publications.^[6] In 2019 they served as one of the CBC Nonfiction Prize readers.^[7] Additionally, Morgan curated the 2019 Arts and Literary Magazines Summit.^[6]

Awards

Yr	Work	Award	Category	Result	Ref
2018	Canadian Art Kinship issue	National Magazine Awards	Best Editorial Package	Nominated	[8]
2019	nîtisânak	Dayne Ogilive Prize	—	Won	[citation needed]
		Indigenous Voices Award	Published Prose in English	Shortlisted	[citation needed]
		Lambda Literary Awards	Lesbian Memoir/Biography	Shortlisted	[citation needed]
		Quebec Writers' Federation Awards	Concordia University First Book Prize	Nominated	[citation needed]
	"Sex Ed: Beyond the Classroom"	National Media Awards Foundation Digital Publishing Awards	Best Digital Editorial Package	Won	[citation needed]

Bibliography

• —— (2016). Critical Sass. bawajigaywin.^[9]
• —— (2018). nîtisânak. Metonymy Press. ISBN 9780994047175.^[10]

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.