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 B.A. in Education Studies and a B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University. She has received support from Lambda Literary, The Diné Artisan + Author Capacity Building Institute, Ucross Foundation, and Vermont Studio Center. She is currently a Fiction MFA graduate student at Vanderbilt University.
Books
Selected work
Sometimes, she listened to his stories
Sho Poetry Journal, 2024
Love Letter to Adalynn's first laugh
Chapter House Journal, 2024
Aak’ei Tsin, Changing Trees
Poetry, 2025
Shí łeeshch’iih béénáshniih, I remember ash
Poetry, 2025
Pawnshop nikon eulogy
Sho Poetry Journal, 2025
Love poem for Juniper of my Youth
Poetry Northwest, 2025
For the common sunflowers along the Upper Fruitland, NM ditch
ALOCASIA, 2025
Book Review: The Sky Was Once A Dark Blanket by Kinsale Drake
Rain Taxi Review of Books, 2025
Annotating the First Lesson of Diné Bizaad: Speak, Read, Write
Shenandoah, 2025
Nizhoni Means Beautiful
Chapter House Journal, 2025
Firsts & Lasts
The Rappahannock Review, 2024
Her Butterfly
Yellow Medicine Review, 2024
The Marking of Ben and October
Yellow Medicine Review, 2024
Children of Ko'
Cola Literary Review, 2024
The Grief of Christmas and Ymir
Swamp Pink, 2024
The Second Oldest
Surging Tide Magazine, 2023