Daniel Heath Justice
Daniel Heath Justice is a Colorado-born Canadian citizen of the Cherokee Nation and currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture at University of British Columbia, which is on unceded Musqueam territory. He is author of Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Wilford Laurier University Press, 2018), Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), and numerous essays and reviews in the field of Indigenous literary studies. He has also co-edited a number of critical and creative anthologies and journals, including the award-winning Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature (2014) and Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (University of Arizona Press, 2011).