Billy-Ray Belcourt

Billy-Ray Belcourt
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Education	Ph.D. in English from the University of Alberta; M.St. in Women's Studies with Distinction from Oxford University; B.A. (Hons.) in Comparative Literature with First Class Honours from the University of Alberta;
Occupation(s)	Author, Poet, Scholar
Notable work	This Wound is a World
Awards	Rhodes Scholarship, 2016; CBC's Top Ten Poetry Collection, 2017; P.K. Page Founder's Award for Poetry, 2017; Griffin Poetry Prize, 2018; Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, 2018;
Website	https://billy-raybelcourt.com

Billy-Ray Belcourt is a poet, scholar, and author from the Driftpile Cree Nation.

Belcourt's works encompass a variety of topics and themes, including decolonial love, grief, intimacy and queer sexuality, and the role of Indigenous women in social resistance movements. Belcourt is also the author of the poetry collection This Wound Is a World which was chosen as one of CBC's top ten poetry collections of 2017 and won the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. Belcourt was the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship and is currently an assistant professor in Indigenous Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.