Kinsale Drake is a Diné writer and the director of NDN Girls Book Club. Her first book, THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET (University of Georgia Press, 2024), won the 2023 National Poetry Series. She has received the Joy Harjo Poetry Award, the Academy of American Poets College Prize, and the Adroit Prize for Poetry.
Selected work
- Poetry
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Rebuke/ /Spell
Academy of American Poets, 2024
First Date
Poetry, 2024
Hollywood Indian
Poetry, 2024
Eulogy for the Cantina on Chapel St. that’s transformed into another…
Poetry, 2024
Wax Cylinder
Superstition Review, 2023
(Re)location
Poets.org, 2023
The year the An*sazi Inn burned down
Poetry, 2023
Ancestors' Wildest Dreams
Poetry, 2023
Your Return
Diode Poetry Journal, 2022
The Greenhouse
Diode Poetry Journal, 2022
In the National Museum of the American Indian, Creation Story Blues
Poetry Online (poetry.onl), 2022