Troy Sebastian |nupqu ʔak·ǂam̓ is a writer from the Ktunaxa community of ʔaq̓am. His story tax niʔ pikak̓— a long time ago– was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Short Story Prize and the 2019 Writers’ Trust Journey Prize. In 2020, he was selected as a Writer’s Trust Rising and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Troy’s story The Mission won the 2022 National Magazine Award Gold Prize for Fiction. His first short story collection Fine Particulate Matter will be published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada and Pantheon in the United States. He is an Instructor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University.
Troy is represented by Rachel Letofsky.
Welcome, Troy!