Kashona Notah is a writer and 2024-2026 Tulsa Artist Fellow. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Yellow Medicine Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in fiction from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and a BA in English with a minor in Native American Studies from Stanford University. Notah 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. He is an Iñupiaq tribal citizen and was raised since birth within a Diné family through his late adoptive father. Originally from San Bernardino, California, Notah currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Tulsa.