Draft:Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler (Anishnaabe, Lac Des Mille Lacs First Nation) is a writer and artist who works in many forms including audio, paint, film and glass. He is Anishinaabe and Jewish, a member of Lac Des Mille Lacs First Nation, and resides in Ontario, Canada.

Career
Adler is the author of Wrist, an Indigenous monster story published by Kegedonce Press. He is a writer and artist who works in many different mediums, including audio and video, drawing and painting, as well as glass. Nathan Adler (Anishinaabe, Lac Des Mille Lacs First Nation) is the author of Wrist, an Indigenous monster story written from the monster's perspective (Kegedonce Press). He is a writer and artist who works in many different mediums, including audio & video, drawing & painting, as well as glass. He is an MFA candidate for Creative Writing from UBC, a first-place winner of the Aboriginal Writing Challenge, and a recipient of a Hnatyshyn Reveal award for Literature.

Adler currently sits on the Literary Committee of the Toronto Arts Council.

His first novel Wrist was published by Kegedonce Press in 2016.

In 2016, Adler participated in the Ottawa International Writers Festival. Adler was a recipient of the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards, funded by The Hnatyshyn Foundation. He has work published in Redwire Magazine magazine, Canada’s History magazine, as a part of the Ode’min Giizis Festival, Shtetl Magazine, Kimiwan Zine, Shameless magazine, as well as in various blogs, and anthologies.

Adler's short film Keemooch, co-directed with filmmaker and artist Howard Adler, debuted at the 2019 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.

Films

 * Keemooch, short, co-Directed with Howard Adler (2019)

Novels

 * Wrist (Kegedonce Press, 2016)

Short Stories

 * "Tyner's Creek," Those Who Make Us: Candian Creatures, Monsters and Myth, edited by Kelsi Morris and Kaitlin Tremblay (Exile Editions, 2016)
 * "Valediction at The Star View Motel," Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time, edited by Hope Nicholson (Bedside Press, 2016)
 * "The Ghost Rattle," Playground of Lost Toys, edited by Colleen Anderson and Ursula Pflug (Exile Editions, 2015)

Articles

 * "Nezaatiikaang Place of the Poplars Connection and Disconnection to Land," (Shameless magazine) (July 2016)

Poetry

 * "All Teeth" (Canada's History, 2010)

Awards

 * REVEAL Indigenous Art Award, Hnatyshyn Foundation, 2017
 * Writing Winner, Indigenous Arts & Stories, 2010