Join us on Thursday, June 19 at 6pm Alaska time for Live from Storyknife featuring June’s writers in residence. The session will be live on Zoom and the recording will be posted on this page after the reading.
Abegunde is a memory keeper, poet, and ancestral priest. While at Storyknife she is drafting a healing text for those who conduct field work at sites of violence and genocide. Her writings on her experiences in Juba, South Sudan have been published in the Massachusetts Review, North Meridian Review, and Tupelo Quarterly. She is an Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.
Clementine Bordeaux is Sicangu Lakota Oyate (Rosebud Sioux Tribe) and grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Currently, Clementine is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Riverside, supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant. Clementine’s research and writing interests include Lakota creative practices and community-based participatory projects.
Abigail Chabitnoy is the author of In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful and How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan 2022, 2019). She teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts low-residency MFA and is an assistant professor at UMass Amherst. Abigail is a member of the Tangirnaq Native Village.
Angie Chuang writes in many nonfiction forms, from memoir to literary journalism to scholarly research. She’s currently at Storyknife working on a memoir in essays called The Unbecomings. Her first memoir, The Four Words for Home, was published in 2014. She lives in Denver and is on the journalism faculty at University of Colorado Boulder.
Mary Leauna Christensen’s (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) poetry can be found in Southern Humanities Review, Denver Quarterly, and Gettysburg Review, among others. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Common and in Black Warrior Review. She was also named a 2022 Indigenous Nations Poets fellow for the inaugural In-Na-Po retreat.
Kirsten Imani Kasai is an Assistant Professor of Popular Fiction at Emerson College in Boston. She’s the author of three novels: The House of Erzulie (Shade Mountain Press, 2018), Ice Song (Del Rey, 2009) and Tattoo (Del Rey, 2011). According to Foreword Reviews, “Kirsten makes the macabre beautiful.”
Alyssa Velazquez is a curator, playwright, and has written for Material Intelligence, The Establishment, Burnaway, AutoStraddle, and Carnegie Museum of Art. She is an inaugural fellow of Critical Insight through the American Theatre magazine, a 2024 Lambda Literary fellow, and was invited to join The Playwrights Cohort at PlayPenn, Class of 2024-25. Since 2022, Velazquez has also held residences at Bischoff Inn and Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh.
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