Selected Publications

07.21. Preface and two poems | Keep a Green Bough: Edited by Holly J. Hughes

02.21. Six poems | A Dozen Nothing

11.20."The kind of heroes we need to actually save the planet" | YES! Magazine

11.20. “The Index" | Poem-a-Day at poets.org

09.20. “Saving the Salish Sea Salmon" | Adventures Northwest

09.20. “Reciprocity in The Age of Extinction" | Nautilus

09.20. “Land Acknowledgment" | SEISMIC (Anthology) UNESCO Seattle City of Literature

04.20. “Pandemic Pages (Excerpt)" | Psaltery & Lyre

04.20. "A Captive Orca and a Chance for our Redemption" | High Country News

05.19. “Shimmy at the Volta”| Jack Straw Writers Anthology, Volume 23

05.19. "Words of Encouragement" | For Love of Orcas

11.18. "Flagrant Delicto" | Pontoon Poetry

10.18. Sublime Subliminal | Floating Bridge Press, Seattle, WA

10.18. "Real to Reel"| Poetry Northwest

08.18. "Super Sacred" | Cosmonauts Avenue

05.18. “Indistinct Features” | Sweet Tree Review

05.18. “Canadian Tuxedo” | Sweet Tree Review

05.18. “The Treaty of Point Elliot: Classified” | Collateral Journal

11.17. Featured Writer, Mineral School Blog

07.17. “The Rental Dog” | Verse Daily

05.17. Patriarchy Blues | MoonPath Press, Tillamook, OR 

Issue 10.4. “Lament for the Love of Bunny” | Diagram

02.10. “Desire at the Stitch and Bitch” | Stirring

Teaching and Workshops

04.21-Present. Washington State Poet Laureate | Community workshops and talks

04.22. Instructor | Black Dog Arts Center | Hike and Write

06.21. Instructor | Hugo House | Quarantine Write-in with Rena Priest

04.21. Instructor | Hugo House | Find Your Feet: the metrical foot in poetry

08.19. Panelist | Hedgebrook & Young Women Empowered (Y-WE)

07.18. Facilitator | Poets in the Park, Redmond, WA        

03.18. Facilitator | Mount Holyoke College Puget Sound Writers

02.18. Guest Presenter | University of Washington, Tacoma                

11.17. Facilitator/Panelist | People vs. Oil and Gas Summit      

  • Indigenous Sovereignty & Fossil Fuel Fights

  • Regional Case Studies: PNW/Lummi & Gulf Coast

06.17. Faculty | Chuckanut Writer’s Conference

  • Writing Off-topic: The fine art of beating around the bush 

  • When Our Work Meets Our Politics: A conversation...

2012-2015 | Adjunct Faculty | Western Washington University

  • Fairhaven 368: Special Topics in the Humanities

  • American Cultural Studies 301: Comparative Cultural Studies

  • American Cultural Studies 315: Contemporary American Indian Issues

2010-2011 | Faculty | Northwest Indian College                      

  • English 148: Introduction to Indian Legends

  • English 155: Introduction to Creative Writing 

  • Humanities 201: Oral Interpretation of Literature 

  • Native American Studies 208: Writing Family History

  • English 236: Survey of Native American Literature 

  • Native American Studies 240: Native Women’s Studies 

Awards & Fellowships

04.22. In-Na-Po Fellowship: Inaugural cohort | Indigenous Nations Poets

02.22. Maxine Cushing Gray Distinguished Writing Fellow | University of Washington

04.21. Appointed to serve as Washington State Poet Laureate

02.20. Artist Trust Fellowship | Vadon Foundation

8.20. Professional Poets Award | Allied Arts Foundation

08.19. Residency Fellowship | Hedgebrook

2019. Writing Fellowship | Jack Straw Writers Program

01.19. Residency Fellowship | Hawthornden Castle 

2018-2020. Explorers Grant | National Geographic

2018. American Book Award | Before Columbus Foundation

07.18. Residency Fellowship | Works on Water + Underwater New York

09.17. Residency Fellowship | Mineral School Artist’s Residency 

07.09. Fine Press Publishing Fellowship | New York Center for Book Arts

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