Billy-Ray Belcourt

Billy-RayBelcourtis aRhodes Scholar andPhDstudent fromDriftpileCree Nation in Alberta. His debut collection of poetry,This Wound is a World,is unapologetically Indigenous and queer at the same time.Belcourtissues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain without giving up on the future.

Belcourtwon the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize for This Wound is a World.The collectionalso won the2018 Indigenous Voices Awardfor most significant work of poetry in English and wasa finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry.

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As It Happens6:34U of A student named first-ever First Nations Rhodes Scholar

Billy-Ray Belcourt is one of three University of Alberta students to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and he's the first First Nations student to be awarded the prize.