Description: A debut book of poetry from a Two-Spirit Oji-Cree scholar written from the perspective of a cyborg trickster named "ZOA."
Brief description:
Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit storyteller and academic from Peguis First Nation on Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba. He is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Indigenous literatures and cultures at the University of Calgary on Treaty 7 territory.
In 2016, his poem "mihkokwaniy" won Canada's History Award for Aboriginal Arts and Stories (for writers aged 19-29), which included a residency at the Banff Centre. He has been published widely in Canadian literary magazines such as Prairie Fire, EVENT, Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, Red Rising Magazine, and Geez Magazine's Decolonization issue. In 2021, he won the LGBTQ Anthology Lammy for Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer.
Review Quotes:
"Joshua Whitehead has crafted a radical cyber poetic that breaks the boundaries between paper and screen, between the visual and the written word, and between the past and the future. Full-Metal Indigiqueer is an Indigital queer manifesto that clears the paths ahead."
--Qwo-Li Driskill, author of Walking with Ghosts: Poems