Poetry off the Shelf: Layli Long Soldier

Layli Long Soldier is the author of WHEREAS (2017) and the chapbook Chromosomory (2010). She has been a contributing editor to Drunken Boat and is poetry editor at Kore Press. In 2012, her participatory installation, Whereas We Respond, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 2015, Long Soldier was awarded a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. A citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, Long Soldier lives in Tsaile, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation, with her husband and daughter. She teaches at Diné College.

Cosponsored with the Writing Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago