Billy-Ray Belcourt
Photo by Jaye Simpson
Billy-Ray Belcourt (he/him) is from the Driftpile Cree Nation in northwest Alberta. He won the Griffin Poetry Prize for his debut collection This Wound is a World. He has twice been nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award—once in poetry for the debut and in non-fiction for his memoir, A History of My Brief Body. Both his works of fiction, A Minor Chorus and Coexistence, were national bestsellers. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
Writer's Festival Appearances
- Poetry Cabaret (2025)
- Belonging (2022)
- A History of My Brief Body (2020)
- Day Six (2020)
- Poetry Cabaret (2019)