Kashona Notah, an Iñupiaq tribal citizen and shareholder raised within a Diné family, is a fiction writer. 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, Nimrod, 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. His writing has also been supported by Blue Mountain Center, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and the Zell Post-MFA Fellowship. Originally from San Bernardino, California, he lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma.