Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger author biography, plus links to books by Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger.

Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger

Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Best New Poets, Poets.org, Black Warrior Review, Teen Vogue, TIME, NPR, and elsewhere. Her first book, The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket, won the 2023 National Poetry Series. She is the director of NDN Girls Book Club and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. 

Darcie Little Badger (Lipan Apache) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comics. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: Elatsoe, named by TIME magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time; A Snake Falls to Earth, and Sheine Lende. Darcie has a PhD in oceanography and is married to a veterinarian named Taran.

Stacie Denetsosie (Diné) is a fiction writer and poet. Her debut short story collection, The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, was named a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year, a Foreword INDIES Book Award winner, a 2024 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist. Stacie received her MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and her MA from Utah State University. Originally from Kayenta, Arizona, she currently resides in Northern Utah with her husband and cat. 

This biography was last updated on 11/11/2025.

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