Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a winner of the 2023 National Poetry Series for her debut poetry collection The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket (University of Georgia Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She directs programming for NDN Girls Book Club, which distributes free books to Indigenous youth and communities. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
2025 Inside Ideas
Speaker – Indigenous Poetry: Words that Map the Natural World
2025 Bookworm Blockparty
Speaker – Garden of Possibilities
