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BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD
An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms
edited by STACIE SHANNON DENETSOSIE, KINSALE DRAKE, and DARCIE LITTLE BADGER
foreword by NATALIE DIAZ
"A magnificent opus my heart hears in whispers and lee-lees, every chord resonating truths."
—ANGELINE BOULLEY, Sisters in the Wind
Rooted in visions of Indigenous futurisms, Beyond the Glittering World proclaims and celebrates a rising generation of storytellers.
The collection brings together twenty-two emerging and established women, two-spirit people, and people of marginalized genders who immerse readers in poems, stories, and worlds that challenge and delight. From a museum heist 177 years in the making, to lyrical explorations of love and loss, to a tale where language itself becomes the force that saves the land, this boundary-breaking, genre-bending anthology illuminates the power of Indigenous voices.
Trade Paper Original | ISBN: 9798890920300 |$18.95 | Trim: 5.25 x 8” | 240 pp
“Beyond the Glittering World is medicine.”
—HILLARY SMITH, Black Walnut Books
CONTRIBUTORS
Conley Lyons | Moniquill Blackgoose | Trisha Moquino | Amelia Vigil | A.J. Eversole | Dominique Daye Hunter | Heid E. Erdrich | Pte San Win Little Whitema | Cheyenne Dakota Williams | Ha’åni Lucia Falo San Nicolas | Amber McCrary | Arielle Twist | Maritza N. Estrada | Danielle Shandiin Emerson | Chelsea T. Hicks | Shaina A. Nez | Ayling Dominguez | Samah Serour Fadil | Andrea Rogers | Kinsale Drake | Stacie Shannon Denetsosie | jaye simpson
ABOUT THE EDITORS
STACIE SHANNON DENETSOSIE is a citizen of the Navajo Nation her clans are Todích'íí'nii (Bitterwater Clan), born for Naakaii (Mexican Clan). She is a fiction writer and poet. She was named a 2025 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Her debut short story collection, The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, was named a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year, a Foreword INDIES Book Award winner, a 2024 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist. Stacie received her MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and her MA from Utah State University. Originally from Kayenta, Arizona, she currently resides in Northern Utah with her husband and cat.
KINSALE DRAKE (Diné) is a winner of the 2023 National Poetry Series for her debut poetry collection The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket (University of Georgia Press, 2024), a Southwest Book of the Year. A two-time winner of the Academy of American Poets University Prize and a former National Student Poet, her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She earned her BA from Yale University and directs programming for NDN Girls Book Club, which distributes free books to Indigenous youth and communities. She currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee as a graduate fellow at Vanderbilt University.
DARCIE LITTLE BADGER is a Lipan Apache writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comics. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. She is also author of A Snake Falls to Earth and Sheine Lende. Darcie has a PhD in oceanography and is married to a veterinarian named Taran.
PRAISE FOR BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD
“This beautiful anthology of poetry and prose...includes traditional motifs along with works of stark feminism and hopeful futurism...a wide assortment of riches.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)
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“Beyond the Glittering World proposes new dreams for how we can endure into the future, dreams born from communities that have long fought for their own survival. This anthology is sharp, varied, and visionary.”
—BOOKLIST
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“An enduring collection straddling time, language, and genre.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
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“A map of survival and becoming, drawn by Indigenous hands that remember the stars. These stories burn, bless, and build. They carry our aunties’ laughter, our languages, our rebellions, and our love into futures shaped by kin and courage. These aren’t just imagined worlds—they’re remembered ones. This is the future speaking in its oldest tongue, and we’d do well to listen.”
—SHANE HAWK, co-editor of the Never Whistle at Night series
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“A prescription for hope, truth, and a loving heart to all who need a cure for patriarchy.”
—CAL CROSBY, The King’s English Bookshop
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“Reading these stories and poems filled with such strength and beauty, left me feeling echoes of both the ancestors and future generations. These voices braid together to show us how the world is, and how it could be. Beyond the Glittering World is medicine.”
—HILLARY SMITH, Black Walnut Books
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“Beyond the Glittering World includes a range of riveting storytellers whose words reflect and refract. Let this anthology sweep you away!
—ELISE PASCHEN, Blood Wolf Moon
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“An evocative compilation of voices pondering Indigenous futures and the shape of Indigenous love. Beyond the Glittering World holds a healthy dose of gender-bending, genre-challenging, future-hoping might. This anthology is a welcome addition to the field of Indigenous anthologies.”
—DEBORAH JACKSON TAFFA, Whiskey Tender
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“These feminisms and futurisms carry a timeless truth: our bodies, our language, movements, dreams, and knowledge are inextricably bound to land.”
—SARETTA MORGAN, Alt-Nature
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“A vital addition to a burgeoning canon of Indigenous feminist creative work. The writers in this anthology write with a beauty and historical consciousness that is inspiring and much-needed in the face of the colonial-capitalist machine called America.”
—BILLY-RAY BELCOURT, Coexistence
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“Packs a fierce punch. With a combination of new poetic voices and established favorites, this anthology reminds us that Indigenous feminisms wield language to create intimate and critical spaces to transform the darkness and violence of colonialism and capitalism into nurturing worlds of strength, power, and life.”
—DR. MISHUANA GOEMAN, Professor and Chair of Indigenous Studies, University at Buffalo
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—BOOKLIST
