Lindsay Nixon

Lindsay Nixon is an editor and writer. Their debut book, ntisnak,was released to critical acclaim in 2018. The memoirdraws from Cree, Saulteaux and Mtis tradition, exploring how the writer's life has been shaped by love, loss, family and community. In 2019, Nixon took home the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, an annual$5,000 prize given to an emerging writer from the LGBTQ community. They have contributed writing to a wide range of publications, including the Malahat Review, Room, Teen Vogue and the Inuit Art Quarterly.

Nixon wontheWriters' Trust of Canada's $5,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ emerging writers.

CBC Books named Nixon a writer to watch in 2019.

• Billy-Ray Belcourt's favourite Canadian book of 2018:ntisnakby Lindsay Nixon
• These Indigenous artists are taking back the self-love that colonialism stole
• Lindsay Nixon on how 'colonial patriarchal masculinity' keeps #MeToo stories inside Indigenous communities
• 12 books by Canadian LGBTQ writers to reading during Pride Month
• Lindsay Nixon discussesIndigenous masculinity and the lasting impacts of colonization

Books by Lindsay Nixon