January Rogers

January is a Mohawk/Tuscarora poet, media producer, performance and sound artist. She lives on her home territory of Six Nations of the Grand River where she operates Ojistoh Publishing and Productions. She has seven published poetry titles and wrote and produced a comedy web series, NDNs on the Airwaves (2022) and a published play Blood Sport (Turtle’s Back Publishing 2023). January combines her literary talents with her passion for media making to produce audio and video poetry. Her video poem Ego of a Nation won Best Music Video at the American Indian Film Festival in 2020 and her sound piece The Battle Within won the Best Experimental Sound prize at the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Festival in 2021. She was Western University’s Writer in Residence (2022/23) and is one of Audible Indigenous Writers Circle mentors for 2022, 2023 and 2024. January is also lead mentor with the Indigenous Story Sharing Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts 2024.