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KINSALE DRAKE
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.
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD
An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms
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.
“An enduring collection straddling time, language, and genre."
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
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