An Excerpt from Coyote City

Daniel David Moses

Daniel David Moses was registered as a Delaware Indian, though he hailed from the Six Nations lands located on the Grand River near Brantford, Ontario. He held a BA, Honours, from York University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. From 1979, he worked as an independent, Toronto-based artist, at first as a poet and, subsequently, as a playwright, dramaturge, editor, essayist, teacher, and artist-, playwrightor writer-in-residence with institutions as varied as Theatre Passe Muraille, Banff Centre for the Arts, University of British Columbia, University of Western Ontario, University of Windsor, University of Toronto (Scarborough), Sage Hill Writing Experience, McMaster University, and Concordia University. He also served on the boards of the Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts, Native Earth Performing Arts, and the Playwrights Union of Canada (now the Playwrights Guild of Canada), and co-founded (with Lenore Keeshig-Tobias and Tomson Highway) the short-lived but influential Committee to Re- Establish the Trickster. In 2016, he was inducted as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada. He passed away on July 13, 2020.