Kashona Notah is a writer who grew up on the West Side of San Bernardino, California. He is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, the Hopwood Award for Short Fiction, the Hopwood Award for Nonfiction, the Mary Steinbeck Dekker Award, the Louis Sudler Prize, and the National Native Media Award for Environmental Coverage. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Yellow Medicine Review, and elsewhere. Notah is Iñupiaq and was raised since birth within a Diné family through his late adoptive father. He currently lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he is a 2024-2026 Tulsa Artist Fellow.