ABOUT THE ARTIST Danielle Shandiin Emerson is a Diné writer from Shiprock, New Mexico, on the Navajo Nation. Her clans are Tłaashchi’i (Red Cheek People Clan), born for Ta’neezaahníí (Tangled People Clan). She has a BA in Education Studies and a BA in Literary Arts from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She has received support from GrubStreet, Lambda Literary, The Diné Artisan + Author Capacity Building Institute, Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Sundress Publications. She has work published and/or forthcoming from swamp pink, Uncharted
Magazine, Poets.org, Yellow Medicine Review, Thin Air Magazine, The Chapter House Journal, and others. Her writing centers on healing, kinship, language-learning, and family. Danielle also writes personal narrative and short fiction.
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