Daniel Heath Justice

Daniel Heath Justice, O.C., Ph.D., FRSC, is a Colorado-born citizen of the Cherokee Nation/ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ, a Spears, Foreman, and Riley citizen descendant on his father's side, raised the third generation of his mother's non-Native family in the Rocky Mountain mining town of Victor, Colorado; he also holds Canadian citizenship. He now lives with his husband in shíshálh swiya on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, where they serve as the human attendants to a frenzy of three adorable but feral forest Frenchies.

Daniel currently works on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam people, where he is Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English and holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Textual Sovereignties at the University of British Columbia. His research and teaching focus on Indigenous literary expression and cultural history, with particular emphasis on issues of Indigenous literary nationalism, kinship, sexuality, and intellectual production. His scholarship and creative work also extend into animal studies (including book-length studies of badgers and raccoons for the Reaction Books *Animal* series) and speculative fiction. His most recent book is the twentieth-anniversary "citizenship and sovereignty" edition of *Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History* (University of Minnesota Press, 2026), which is entirely focused on citizen Cherokee writers. He is also a lifelong tabletop D&D player and fantasy/wonderworks writer who explores the imaginative possibilities of Indigiqueer resurgence and decolonization, especially in his epic fantasy series, *The Way of Thorn and Thunder* (omnibus edition, 2011).