Kashona Notah, an Iñupiaq tribal citizen 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, 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 received support from Blue Mountain Center, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Originally from San Bernardino, California, he currently lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma.