I was born a citizen of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma and spent much of my life in the Pacific Northwest. My writing has appeared in Rattle, The Pinch, Abstract Magazine TV, Tupelo Quarterly, Hippocampus, Apple in the Dark, Devil’s Lake, and other places. I got my MFA in fiction writing from the University of Washington, where my collection of short stories, Hardest Weather in the World, won the David Guterson Award.

Currently, I teach English at Tulsa Community College and help run our literary journal, Tulsa Review, which my friends and I founded in 2014. I also like to make music in Giant Wolf.

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