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Creator Spotlight: Billy-Ray Belcourt
“I’m continuously interested in how to [...] offer up a portrait of Indigenous life that should be seen not as a definitive representation, but one among many.” - Billy-Ray Belcourt for CBC
“All of my writing is against the poverty of simplicity. All of my writing is against the trauma of description.”
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, Fact Naming Rituals
Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation in northwest Alberta. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, and the author of six books: This Wound is a World, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, A History of My Brief Body, A Minor Chorus, Coexistence, and The Idea of an Entire Life. He lives in Vancouver.
“Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut novel A Minor Chorus uplifts the modern queer Indigenous experience.” - CBC.ca
Browse Billy-Ray's titles in our featured online collection, which includes physical copies available at the Learning Commons at Casa Loma, St. James, and Waterfront. We also invite you to explore our Indigenous collection at anytime and discover something new.
Spotlight on Indigenous creativity in collaboration with Indigenous Initiatives for National Indigenous History Month. Each Tuesday this June, we're featuring a different Indigenous creative from the Library collections.