Layli Long Soldier

Layli Long Soldier is a poet, writer and artist, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She teaches at Diné, a tribal college establisehd by the Navajo Nation. Her first chapbook of poetry is titled, Chromosomory (Q Ave Press, 2010), and she is the author of two collections with longtime Lannan grantee Graywolf Press: the 2017 collection WHEREAS, a finalist for the National Book Award and winnder of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award,, and the 2026 collection WE, longlisted for the National Book Award. Her poems and critical work have appeared in The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review Online, American Indian Journal of Culture and Research, The Brooklyn Rail, Eleven Eleven, and Mud City, among others. She is a recipient of the 2015 NACF National Artist Fellowship and a 2016 Whiting Award.