And Layli and her husband Orlando both teach at Diné
College in Tsaile.
Orlando I met when I was teaching a summer
workshop at Naropa, and he was the IAIA fellow
there that summer.
And I had come to Naropa years before in the same capacity
for my IAIA as a fellow.
So it was a nice point of juncture for me.
And I appreciated his work when I first met him.
And I have grown to deeply appreciate
his work over the years.
He is Diné of the Zuni Water Edge Clan and born for Mexican
Clan.
He holds a BFA from the Institute
of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University.
His poems have appeared in Bombay Gin, Kenyon Review,
Oregon Literary Review, Ploughshares,
Salt Hill journal, Sentence, Talking Stick, and elsewhere.
He's professor of writing at Trinity College and lives
in Tsaile, Arizona.
Bone Light is his first book from Red Hen Press, 2009.
Please join me in welcoming Orlando White.
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