Blair Palmer Yoxall
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Biography

Blair Palmer Yoxall (he/him/his) is an award-winning writer, author, and poet of Métis and settler parentage from Alberta. His fiction and poetry fiction have appeared in Glass Buffalo, The Fiddlehead, and Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology, and his fiction won the 2016 Striking Prose Competition Sponsored by Terry Whitehead and the 2019 James Patrick Folinsbee Prize in English. His fiction was also shortlisted for a 2017 Norma Epstein Foundation Award and a 2019 Indigenous Voices Award. Treat Them As Buffalo is his debut novel.

Blair is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta and of Métis and settler parentage. He holds an M.A. in English from the University of Alberta where he specialized in creative writing, Indigenous literatures, and Westerns. Blair lives in Calgary and enjoys fly-fishing in the Rocky Mountains.

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