Daniel Heath Justice

Daniel Heath Justice, O.C., Ph.D., FRSC, is a Colorado-born citizen of the Cherokee Nation/ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ, a Spears, Foreman, Riley, and Shields citizen descendant on his father's side, raised the third generation of his mother's non-Native family in the Rocky Mountain mining town of Victor, Colorado, and now holds Canadian citizenship. He now lives with his husband in shíshálh swiya on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, where they serve as the human attendants to two adorable but feral forest Frenchies. Daniel currently works on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam people, where he is Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English and a Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. His research and teaching focus on Indigenous literary expression and cultural history, with particular emphasis on issues of Indigenous literary nationalism, kinship, sexuality, and intellectual production. His scholarship and creative work also extend into animal studies (including book-length studies of badgers and raccoons for the Reaction Books *Animal* series) and speculative fiction. His most recent book is *Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege*, an anthology co-edited with White Earth Ojibwa historian Jean M. O'Brien (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). He is also a lifelong tabletop D&D player and fantasy/wonderworks writer who explores the imaginative possibilities of Indigiqueer resurgence and decolonization, especially in his epic fantasy series, *The Way of Thorn and Thunder* (omnibus edition, 2011).