publications and more
from my hands, into the world: poetry, essays, film, readings, panels & more
publications
poetry
Yellow Medicine Review - “Horned Toad Song” Spring 2025
Poetry Northwest - “Pastoral Prayer as a Genre at the Kayenta Shopping Center” Summer & Fall 2025
Kenyon Review - “The Danger is Clear” Winter 2025
Nashville Review - “4-4-4” Winter 2025
POETRY Magazine - “dáádílkał,” “Dá’ák’eh ahooł’níi (To make a crop),” “rabbithole” - March 2025
The Poetry Society of New York’s Milk Press - “All Free Nations” Winter 2025
Sho Poetry Journal - “Event / Response” Winter 2024/2025
Poetry Northwest - “Something is rotten in the state of trust” Summer & Fall 2024
Hayden’s Ferry Review - “Land as a Body as a Religion” HFR Issue 73
El Portal Journal - Poetry: “Injun in Me and My Brother,” “Born for Water Goes to School”
Chapter House Journal - "Beyond the Watching Eye: Reclaiming Story and Sight through Diné Thought” Summer 2025
POETRY Magazine - “Poetry as a Vessel: Preserving Navajo Culture Amidst the Dangers of Translation” - March 2025
Crocker Museum's Indigenous Voices in Film - “Safety in Numbers: Bringing Community to the Screen Through Language”
essays
fiction
Yellow Medicine Review - Short Story: “Waste Management”
filmography
Ozzy (2018) - Writer/Director/Producer/Editor
The Forsaken Souls (2013) - Director/Cinematographer/Editor
Undergraduates: Life with an Art Degree (2013) - Director/Editor
Devil’s Breath (2013) - Writer/Director/Producer/Editor
theatre
In the Badlands - Playwrights Realm Native American Artist Lab, Staged Reading - February 2025
public speaking, conferences & panels
The Sandbox: A Southwest Writers Exchange, Online - Poet/Performer - October 2025
POETS HOUSE Indigenous Poetics Forum: James Welch Prize Reading - New York City, NY - Poet/Performer - October 2025
Diné Kids Film Club: Campfire Poetry Night, Phoenix, Arizona - Host- June 2025
Northern Arizona Book Festival (NOAZBF), Flagstaff, Arizona - Performer - April 2025
Washington State University-Vancouver, Vancouver, Washington - Visiting Writer Poetry Reading - April 2025
Indigenous Nations Poets AWP Off-Site Event, Los Angeles, CA - Speaker - March 2025
Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Los Angeles, CA - Speaker - March 2025 - Future Work / Beauty Work: Panel/Reading Featuring New Diné Poets
2025 American Indian Studies Association Conference, Tempe, AZ - Panelist - February 2025 - Indigenous Literary and Rhetorical Sovereignty Panel
The Sandbox: A Southwest Writers Exchange, Online - Poet/Performer - November 2024
Desert Nights, Rising Star Writers Conference, Tempe, AZ - Panelist - October 2024 - Exploring the Why: Artists in the Community Panel, Writing From & Across Indigenous Diaspora Panel, Writing From & Across Indigenous Diaspora Panel
Indigenous Open Mic with ASU Labriola Center, Tempe, AZ - Featured Performer - September 2024
Our Roots, Our Wings: Thousand Languages Project Issue 4 Launch, Tempe, AZ - Poet/Performer - September 2024
ASU VTN/SLC 494 Course - On Translation, Tempe, AZ - Guest Speaker - September 2024
The Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang), Tempe, AZ - Facilitator - June 2024
fellowships & honors
Brown University - Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) - 2026 Practitioner Fellow
Forge Project Confluence - 2025 Writer-in-Residence
POETRY Magazine Editor’s Choice in Visual Poetry - 2025 Recipient
Poetry Northwest James Welch Prize - 2025 Recipient
Alfred Bendixen Poetry Prize - Fall 2025 Recipient
Juniper Summer Institute - 2025 Juniper Scholar
Playwrights Realm - Native American Artist Lab 2024 Fellow
Tin House Summer Workshop - 2024 Tin House Scholar
Indigenous Nations Poets - 2024 Fellow
Diné Artisans and Authors for Capacity Building Institute - 2024 Spring Fellow
UC-Berkeley Arts Research Center Poetry & the Senses - 2023 Fall Fellow