Sherwin Bitsui


Sherwin Bitsui is originally from Baaʼoogeedí, on the Navajo Nation. His book, Floodsong, won the American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award.

Life

He is Navajo of the Todichʼíiʼnii, born for the Tłʼízíłání.
He holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program. He is the recipient of the 2000-01 Individual Poet Grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, the 1999 Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, a Soul Mountain Residency, a Lannan Foundation Literary Residency Fellowship and a 2006 Whiting Award. In 2012, he was honored with an . He has served in visiting faculty positions, including distinguished visiting, , , and , where he has been on creative writing faculty . Also, since 2013, he has served on the faculty of the .
Sherwin has published poems in American Poet, The Iowa Review, Frank, Lit Magazine, and elsewhere. His poems were also anthologized in ' and '.
His book of poetry, Flood Song, was published in 2009 by Copper Canyon Press and won an American Book Award in 2010. His most recent book of poetry, Dissolve, was published in 2018 also by Copper Canyon Press.
Currently, he lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Selected works

Poetry
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