Napatsi Folger

Napatsi Iola Qiluyak Joy Folger (Inuk [Iqaluit, Nunavut]) is an Inuk comic artist, fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature writer from Iqaluit, Nunavut. She now lives in North Vancouver, BC and graduated from the University of British Columbia with an MFA in Creative Writing in 2021. She is working as the Tauttunnguaqti for Inuit Art Quarterly, where her comics were featured as a limited series in 2020. Her work has also been featured most recently in Studio Magazine, Maisonneuve, Carousel Magazine, Long Con Magazine, The Walrus, Matrix Magazine, Taddle Creek, Word Hoard, and Puritan Magazine, as well as various exhibition texts across Canada. Folger’s first book, Joy of Apex, was published in 2011 by Inhabit Media.