Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is a visual artist, storyteller and public speaker, born and raised on the North Pacific islands of Haida Gwaii. His recent Haida manga books include Red (2010), Carpe Fin (2019) and JAJ (2023), all designed to be dismantled and the pages arranged as a mural. His art has been shown in institutions like the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, as well as museums in Paris, Berlin, Japan and Canada. Yahgulanaas lives with his wife and daughter on an island in the Salish Sea, and has a studio in West Vancouver, British Columbia.