Lindsay Nixon
Lindsay Nixon is an Indigenous Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers in 2019.
Nixon, of Cree, Saulteaux and Métis heritage, is a professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University. They are also a doctoral student in art history at McGill University, and Editor-at-Large on Indigenous art for Canadian Art magazine. Their first book, Nîtisânak, was published in 2018, and was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards, and for the Indigenous Voices Award for English-language literature. They were identified as a Canadian writer to watch by CBC Books in 2019.
They previously worked as editor for mâmawi-âcimowak, an Indigenous art journal. Their writing has also appeared in GUTS, Malahat Review, Teen Vogue, Room, and other popular publications. In 2019 they served as one of the CBC Nonfiction Prize readers. Additionally, Nixon curated the 2019 Arts and Literary Magazines Summit.Awards
- Dayne Ogilive Prize, Writers' Trust of Canada
- Finalist, Lesbian Memoir/Biography Category, Lambda Literary Award
- Finalist, Published Prose in English, Indigenous Voices Literary Award
- Nominated for nîtisânak, Concordia University First Book Prize, Quebec Writers' Federation Awards
- Nominated, Canadian Art Kinship issue edited by Nixon, Best Editorial Package, National Magazine Awards.
- Best Digital Editorial Package, "Sex Ed: Beyond the Classroom" in The Walrus, Digital Publishing Awards, National Media Awards Foundation.
