Jas M. Morgan is a writer, producer, and Assistant Professor of Indigenous Communication, Identity, and Community at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Their interdisciplinary expertise spans kinship, Indigenous futurisms, the Indigenous Internet, art criticism, digital publishing, policy and justice, transfeminist theory, and literary and cultural studies.

They are the founder of Deadly Collective, a digital policy platform that advances Indigenous women’s, queer, and trans leadership and governance across unceded territories, Treaty lands, and modern Treaty processes in Western Canada.

Morgan began their professional media career as an award-nominated Editor-at-Large for Canadian Art and has since become an award-winning freelance writer. In 2022, they were named a Canada Research Chair in Digital Wahkohtowin and Cultural Governance, where their research lab centers 2LGBTIA+ Indigenous storytelling to challenge stigma in media and policy.

Their debut book, nîtisânak (Metonymy Press, 2018), won both the 2019 Dayne Ogilvie Prize and a 2019 Quebec Writers’ Federation First Book Prize, and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and an Indigenous Voices Literary Award.

Morgan’s academic service focuses on developing standards for peer review and high-quality digital scholarship. They are also the founder of Sewing Circle Productions, an Indigenous-led production company focused on film and television projects that center 2LGBTIA+ Indigenous narratives. In addition, they serve on the editorial board of GUTS, a feminist digital magazine they helped relaunch in 2021. Their ongoing column, I Saw Some Art, appears regularly in the publication.

Morgan is Cree-Métis-Saulteaux and a registered member of Tootinaowaziibeeng First Nation. Their Métis kin include the McKays from around Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and the Demerias from around Brandon and Winnipeg, Manitoba.