"It made you ache to be alive"

A Conversation on Coexistence: Stories

Authors

  • Billy-Ray Belcourt University of British Columbia
  • Jeffrey Ansloos University of Toronto

Author Biographies

  • Billy-Ray Belcourt, University of British Columbia

    Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an Associate Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Queer Indigenous Cultural Production in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of five books: This Wound is a World, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, A History of My Brief Body, A Minor Chorus, and Coexistence.

  • Jeffrey Ansloos, University of Toronto

    Jeffrey Ansloos is a writer, academic, and psychologist. He is a member of Fisher River Cree Nation. He is an Associate Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Studies of Health and Environmental Justice at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. 

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Belcourt, B.R. 2021. A History of my Brief Body. Penguin Canada.

Belcourt, B.R. 2022. A Minor Chorus: A novel. Penguin Canada.

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Published

2025-07-14

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2025: Early View: Liveable Futures

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Interviews

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