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.
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“To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.”
Source: A History of My Brief Body
