The next reader is someone I've had a great pleasure to know
for a good while now, and I really appreciate her work,
and watching her move through the world.
She's currently working on her MFA, and just finished,
I think, editing for Drunken Boat,
a special edition with emerging native women writers.
Layli Long Soldier is Oglala Lakota,
her family is from Pine Ridge, South Dakota,
and northwestern Idaho.
She holds the BFA in creative writing
from the Institute of American Indian Arts,
and is a two-time recipient of the Truman Capote Creative
Writing Fellowship there.
She's also a recipient of the 2009 Naropa University Poetry
Scholarship, and has served as editor-in-chief
for the Native Language Network and other publications
for the Indigenous Language Institute,
in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Her first chapbook of poetry is titled Chromosomory,
from Q Avenue Press, in 2009.
Please welcome a wonderful poet, Layli Long Soldier.
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