D.A. Lockhart

D.A. Lockhart is the author of multiple collections of poetry and short fiction. His work has been shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award, Raymond Souster Award, Indiana Author’s Awards, First Nations Communities READ Award, and has been a finalist for the ReLit Award. His work has appeared widely throughout Turtle Island including, The Malahat Review, Grain, CV2, TriQuarterly, The Fiddlehead, ARC Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry, Best New Poetry from the Midwest, and Belt. Lockhart is a graduate of the Indiana University – Bloomington MFA in Creative Writing where he held a Neal-Marshall Fellowship in Fiction. He is pùkuwànkoamimëns of the Moravian of the Thames First Nation (Eelūnaapèewii Lahkèewiit). His work frequently draws on linguistic and cultural decolonization with a specific mind towards building new Indigenous mythologies and poetics from the crossroads of cultures that contemporary citizens of Turtle Island’s First Nations find themselves in. Lockhart currently resides at Waawiiyaatanong. The latest on his work can be followed at wazhashkpoetry.com