Karen Vargas is a native of northern New Mexico. Her poetry and short stories have been published in Borderlore, Epoch, Catamaran, Drinking from the Stream, La Palabra: The Word Is A Woman series, and others. She is the recipient of...Read More

Delaney Keshena is from a small, train-bound border town and enrolled Menominee. They’re a student at the Institute of American Indian Arts where they study ceramics and poetryRead More

Hi, my name is Dyusa and I am a Chachi and Jewish artist. I wrote this poem while feeling complete hopelessness after processing the current health of my family back in Ecuador. It has been over a decade since I've...Read More

Fidel is a student that majors in Indigenous Liberal Studies at IAIA. His poetry involves Diné k’ejí (Diné language) and understanding multiple worldviews. The topics he writes about are anorexia recovery and relapse, Two-Spirit understandings, his ultimate biases (Bangchan, Ungjae,...Read More

Tovah Strong is from a small train town in New Mexico. A senior at the Institute of American Indian Arts, she is studying creative writing with an emphasis in poetry. She also writes prose. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld,...Read More

Debbie Haddow is a Thai lesbian poet and storyteller residing in Santa Fe. She graduated with her BFA in Creative Writing from IAIA in 2019 and is set to graduate from IAIA’s MFA program over the summer after working towards...Read More

Ibe Liebenberg lives in Chico, California, and works as a firefighter for Cal Fire and as a lecturer at Chico State University. He is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He is currently enrolled in the MFA program at the...Read More