STACIE SHANNON DENETSOSIE
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 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 winner of a WILLA Literary Award, a Foreword INDIES Book Award, and a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist. She is a co-editor of Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Futurisms and Feminisms. Stacie received her MA from Utah State University and her MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Originally from Kayenta, Arizona, she currently resides in Northern Utah with her husband and cat.
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-one 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
Edited by Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, and Darcie Little Badger
THE MISSING MORNINGSTAR
And Other Stories
Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he’s sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple’s search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum. This debut collection grapples with a complex and painful history alongside an inheritance of beauty, ceremony, and storytelling.
"Propulsive and complex, this is a gorgeously written debut."
—KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)
BLOSSOM AS THE CLIFFROSE:
Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild
Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild features original poems and prose by talented writers who are faithful, non-faithful, believers, heretics, converts and de-converts, dragged in or forced out of the Mormon faith. This dynamic collection demonstrates the breadth, complexity, and diversity of a Latter-day Saint legacy of commitment to natural place and challenges us to examine the myriad ways our own deeply rooted heritage shapes our personal relationship with landscape.
“Meditative and energizing, fierce and loving, balanced and rhythmic. An invitation to welcome faith and nature, and to embrace the tensions and beauty that spring from every crack and cranny along the way.”
—FOREWORD REVIEWS