Joseph Maldonado was born in Dallas, Tx. He began his prolific doodling career upon different surfaces around town while attending high school. He is an American artist and independent curator. In 2015, Joseph moved to Kansas City, MO to attend...Read More

Charlene Tourtillott is a 22-year-old member of the Menominee Nation. She is a Creative Writing student and enjoys writing poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Many themes that she writes about revolve around her experience growing up on the Menominee reservation and...Read More

Jamie Natonabah is Diné from Fort Defiance, AZ. She navigates this life with her partner, and their daughter. Jamie is a poet with dreams of fiction, while formerly separate, a shift of light has begun to change that. Here’s to...Read More

Annabella Farmer is a senior in the Creative Writing department at the Institute of American Indian Arts, specializing in fiction and journalism. She is a graduate of the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, and has been published in the Santa Fe...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

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

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

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

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

Nika Feldman is an interdisciplinary textile artist currently completing a degree in Indigenous Liberal Studies at IAIA. Feldman was born and grew up in the Northeast as a dual citizen between the US and Canada on the unceded territory of...Read More