EDUCATION
M.F.A Creative Writing, Syracuse University, University Fellow, May 2009
Thesis: Dark Thirty
Committee: Michael Burkard, Brooks Haxton, Mary Karr, Chris Kennedy, Bruce Smith.
B.F.A Creative Writing, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe NM.
Studied under poets Arthur Sze and Jon Davis.
AWARDS
SAR Indigenous Writer-in-Residence Fellowship 2011
Lannan Residency Fellowship 2009
Syracuse University Fellowship (Full Fellowship in Creative Writing Program) 2006-2009
The Fine Arts Work Center’s Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Scholarship (Full Scholarship Summer Program) 2007
Napa Valley Writers’ Workshop (Full Scholarship) 2006
Idyllwild Summer Poetry (Full Scholarship) 2005
Truman Capote Scholarship (Full Scholarship in the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program) 2001
Naropa Summer Writing Undergraduate Scholarship (Full Scholarship) 2001
TEACHING
Downtown Writers Center Visiting Poetry Instructor Fall 2010
Downtown Writers Center Visiting Poetry Instructor Spring 2010
Dine College (Visiting Poet) March 2010
Syracuse University (TA) 2007-2008 Academic Year: Taught freshman and sophomore level Academic Writing.
White Horse High School (Visiting Poet) Fall 2005
Santa Fe Indian School (Visiting Poet) Fall 2003
EDITORIAL/PROFESSIONAL
Web Editor, Salt Hill Journal August 08-09
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Dark Thirty (University of Arizona Press) Spring 2009
Literary Journals/Anthologies:
Talking Stick (Two Poems) Winter 2011
Ploughshares (One Poem) Fall 2010
The Florida Review (Conversation w/ Sherwin Bitsui, Three Poems) Summer 2010
Many Mountains Moving (One Poem) Spring 2009
The CT Review (Four Poems) Spring 2009
Third Coast Magazine (Two Poems) Fall 2008
Narrative Magazine (Two Poems) Winter 2007
The Oregon Literary Review (Four Poems) Summer 2007
The American Poet: Emerging Poets Feature, Intro by Sherman Alexie (Four Poems) Fall 2006
The Ontario Review: Feature (Five Poems) Fall 2006
To Topos International Literary Magazine (4 Poems) Fall 2006
Scrimshaw: Institute of American Indian Arts Anthology (Nine Poems) 2006
Fish Head Soup: Institute of American Indian Arts Anthology (Sequence of Six Poems) 2005
Retinal Exchange: Lila Wallace Poetry Project (One Poem) 2002
Maple Vapor: Institute of American Indian Arts Anthology (Four Poems) 2002
New Mexico Culture Net (One Poem) 2000
Tribal College Magazine (One Poem) 2000
READINGS
School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, NM) 2011
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) 2011