Jas M MorganJas M Morgan is a Toronto-based Cree- Métis-Saulteaux SSHRC doctoral scholarship recipient, a McGill University Art History PhD candidate, and an assistant professor in Ryerson University's Department of English. They previously held the position of ditor-at-Large for Canadian Art, served as the Arts and Literary Summit programmer for MagNet 2019. Morgan's first book NÎTISÂNAK (Metonymy Press, 2018) won the prestigious 2019 Dayne Ogilive Prize and a 2019 Quebec Writer's Federation first book prize, and has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and an Indigenous Voices Literary Award. Morgan is the co-founder of gijiit: a curatorial collective that focuses on community-engaged Indigenous art curations, gatherings, and research dealing with themes of gender, sex, and sexuality. They are a REVEAL Indigenous Art Award recipient, and have been awarded national Magazine Awards in the Essay category for Stories Not Told and in the Best-Editorial Package category for #MeToo and the Secrets Indigenous Women Keep. For their work as lead editor for the summer 2017 issue of Canadian Art, an issue on the theme of Kinship, ' they were also nominated for a National Magazine Award in the Best Editorial PackagE category. Morgan's writing has appeared in The Walrus, Malahat Review, Room, GUTS, esse, Teen Vogue, CV2/Prairie Fire, The New Inquiry and other publications. Read More Read Less