TEAM

Natalie Diaz

Director

Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. Diaz's second collection, Postcolonial Love Poem was published by Graywolf Press in 2020. She is a Macarthur Foundation Fellow, Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a U.S. Artists Ford Fellowship, and Princeton University's Hodder Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program.

COLLABORATORS

TEAM

Natalie Diaz

Director

COLLABORATORS

Tacey M. Atsitty

Poet

Director, the Navajo Film Festival

Deana Haggag

President and CEO

Josh Begley

Data Artist

and App Developer

Joy Harjo

Poet Laureate

of the United States

Kimberly Blaeser

Poet, critic, essayist

Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2015-2016

Valeria Luiselli

Author of Lost Children Archive

and MacArthur Fellow

Simone Browne

Author, Dark Matters:

On the Surveillance of Blackness

Margaret Noodin

Poet, Anishinaabemowin

language teacher

Laura Ortman

White Mountain Apache Musician

and National Artists Fellow

Layli Long Soldier

Author, Whereas

National Book Award Finalist

Ash Ponders

Photographer

Multimedia artist

Madiha Tahir

Writer, Scholar

Director, Wounds of Waziristan

No‘u Revilla

Poet

Author, Say Throne

Lehua M. Taitano

Writer

Interdisciplinary artist

Solmaz Sharif

Poet, Author of Look,

National Book Award Finalist

Michelle Téllez

Interdisciplinary Scholar

Founding member, Chicana M(other)work

Natasha Trethewey

Former Poet Laureate

of the United States

Ofelia Zepeda

Tohono O’odham Nation Poet

and MacArthur Fellow