best books to read 2017 about creativity

It was also named the Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer at the 2018 Indigenous Voices Awards. in Women's Studies from the University of Oxford and Wadham College. In the First Nations Youth category, Belcourt was awarded a 2019 Indspire Award, which is the highest honor the Indigenous community bestows on its own leaders.īilly-Ray’s debut book of poems, This Wound is a World(Frontenac House 2017), won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize (making him the youngest ever winner) and the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. He was also a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and holds an M.St. A 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, he earned his PhD in English at the University of Alberta.

He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of four books: This Wound is a World, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, A History of My Brief Body, and A Minor Chorus.īilly-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation.

Best books to read 2017 about creativity