Daniel Heath Justice

From ABC BookWorld, "Colorado-born Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation) studies and writes about Indigenous literature for a living. He received his B.A. from the University of Northern Colorado and he received his MA and Ph.D from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. For ten years, since 2002, he was a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Toronto in Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory, and also an affiliate of the Aboriginal Studies Program. He then held the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture at UBC. Having served as chair of the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program at UBC for four years, he moved to Halfmoon Bay with his husband and dogs Butter and Moira Rose, after finishing his term as chair.

Justice became a Canadian citizen in 2009. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 30, 2020." He appeared at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, Sechelt in 2021.