Dr. Tacey M. Atsitty de Gonzales, Diné (Navajo), is Tsénahabiłnii (Sleep Rock People) and born for Ta’neeszahnii (Tangle People).
I have been honored with the Wisconsin Brittingham Prize for Poetry and other prizes. I am a member of Advisory Council for BYU’s Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and a board member for Lightscatter Press.
I hold bachelor’s degrees from Brigham Young University and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University.
I also have a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University.
My work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY; EPOCH; Kenyon Review Online; Prairie Schooner; When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry;Leavings, and other publications. My first book is Rain Scald (University of New Mexico Press, 2018), and my second book is (At) Wrist (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023).
