Kashona Notah, an Iñupiaq tribal citizen raised within a Diné family, is a fiction writer and 2024-2026 Tulsa Artist Fellow. He holds an MFA in fiction from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and a BA in English from Stanford University. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Among other honors, he is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, the Hopwood Award for Fiction, and the Hopwood Award for Nonfiction. He is also a 2025 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Scholar in Fiction. Originally from San Bernardino, California, he lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Tulsa.