Burial Grounds: Indigenous Perspectives on Horror

Authors

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  Jasmin McGaughey

  Jasmin is a Torres Strait Islander and African American writer working at Books+Publishing. She is the author of Moonlight and Dust and Ash Barty’s Little Ash Series (illustrated by Jade Goodwin). In 2023, she won a Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. She is a black&write! editor alum, and has written for Overland, Kill Your Darlings, SBS Voices and Griffith Review and recently co-edited Words to Sing the World Alive.
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  Jessica Johns

  Jessica Johns is a queer nehiyaw aunty and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. She is an interdisciplinary artist and award-winning writer whose debut novel, Bad Cree, was a Canada Reads finalist and won the WGA Fiction Prize, Alex Award, and MacEwan Book of the Year Prize.
  
  Jessica's curated events are:
  
  Reimagining Resistance Beyond Colonies
  
  Burial Grounds: Indigenous Perspectives on Horror
  
  Sintering: An Evening of Indigenous Brilliance 
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  Alicia Elliott

  Alicia Elliott is a Mohawk writer, editor and educator living in Brantford, Ontario. Her essays have been nominated for and won National Magazine Awards, and her short fiction has been published and anthologized internationally. Elliott’s first book of essays, A Mind Spread Out On The Ground, was a national bestseller in 2019. Her second book, the novel And Then She Fell, was published in 2023. It was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and went on to win the Amazon First Novel Award, the Indigenous Voices Award for Prose in English, and the First Nations Community READS Award.
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  John Morrissey

  John Morrissey is a Melbourne writer of Kalkadoon descent. Bird Deity is his first novel.