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is originally from Tólikan, Arizona. He is Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born for the Naakai Diné’e.

  He holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University. His poems have appeared in Bombay Gin, The Kenyon Review, Salt Hill Journal, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Talking Stick Native Arts Quarterly, and elsewhere.

  He has taught at Brown University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, The Art Center Design College, and has been a visiting writer at Colgate  University and Naropa University. He teaches at Diné College and lives in Tsaile, Arizona. Bone Light (Red Hen Press, 2009) is his first book.

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