BLAIR PALMER YOXALL (he/him/his) is a writer and poet. His fiction has won the Striking Prose competition and the James Patrick Folinsbee prize in English and been shortlisted for the Norma Epstein Foundation Award and an Indigenous Voices Award. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Glass Buffalo, The Fiddlehead and Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology. Yoxall is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta and of Métis and settler parentage. He holds an MA in English in Indigenous literature and Westerns, and enjoys fly-fishing in the Alberta Rockies. Treat Them as Buffalo is his debut novel.