Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation) is Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English at the University of British Columbia, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture. He was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2018, and his work engages issues of Indigenous being, belonging, and other-than-human kinship in literature, culture, and the expressive arts. His books include Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History (2006) and Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (2018), as well as the animal cultural histories Badger (2015) and the forthcoming Raccoon (spring 2021) in the Animal series from Reaktion Books. A creative as well as scholarly writing, he is also the author of the Indigenous epic fantasy, The Way of Thorn and Thunder, and numerous shorter fantasy wonderworks.