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Layli Long Soldier

Layli Long Soldier
Layli Long Soldier holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Bard College. She is the recipient of an NACF National Artist Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She is the author of Chromosomory (Q Avenue Press, 2010) and WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017), which received the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Award and the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.


Layli Long Soldier on Wounded Knee and the Murder of George Floyd

"This country, the structure—if it were a dinner table, I’d flip it."
June 3, 2020  By Layli Long Soldier
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Layli Long Soldier Confronts the Duplicitous Language of the US Government

Three Poems from the New Collection, Whereas
March 7, 2017  By Layli Long Soldier
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