Sam McKegney is a white settler scholar of Indigenous literatures. He has published three books—Carrying the Burden of Peace: Reimagining Indigenous Masculinities through Story (University of Regina Press, 2021), Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood (University of Manitoba Press 2014), and Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School (University of Manitoba Press 2007)—and articles on such topics as masculinity, environmental kinship, prison writing, and mythologies of hockey. He is a researcher with the Indigenous Hockey Research Network and Head of the English Department at Queen’s University, which occupies lands of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe Peoples.