FEBRUARY 18, 1952

DELAWARE/TUSCARORA POET/PLAYWRIGHT DANIEL DAVID MOSES BORN

Moses, born in Ohsweken, Ontario (ON) & raised on the Six Nations’ Grand River Reserve, earned a bachelor’s degree at York University (Univ.) & Masters in Fine Arts from the British Columbia Univ. Playwriting (PWr) Awards: 1991 Governor General’s Literary nominee (Coyote City); 1990 Theatre Canada (CA) National PWr (The Dreaming Beauty); 1994 Du Maurier One Act PWr (The Moon and Dead Indians); 1996 James Buller Memorial (The Indian Medicine Shows); and 2001 Harbourfront Festival Prize. Poetry collections: Delicate Bodies, The White Line, Sixteen Jesuses & River Range Poems. Board memberships: Univ. of Regina Press; Assoc. for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts; Native Earth Performing Arts; and PWrs Union of CA. Artist/PWr-in-residence at: Theatre Passe Muraille; Banff Centre for the Arts; and several universities. In 2003, Moses was appointed Queen’s National Scholar, Queen’s Univ. and made Fellow to The Royal Society of CA (2016). Moses died July 13, 2020.

Sources:

“Playwright and poet Daniel David Moses dead at 68,” CBC Books, 7/16/2020.  Retrieved 9/6/2022, Playwright and poet Daniel David Moses dead at 68 | CBC Books

“Daniel David Moses,” Biography.  Retrieved 10/16/2022, Biography | Daniel David Moses

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