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“A Move to New Country” Pushcart Nominated

So appreciative to Reckoning for nominating “A Move to New Country” for the Pushcart Prize. Ever since I heard about the first issue of this Environmental Justice focused Speculative Fiction magazine, I’ve wanted to be a part of it. I feel so fortunate that this is the piece that made that a reality and I am eternally grateful to the editors at Reckoning for their compassion and support. It couldn’t have been published in a more fitting venue.

I wrote this story in the wake of my Iko’s passing. It was during Covid and I was in Miami while she was in a care facility in my hometown in Kansas. After she passed, I had a ticket to return and speak at her memorial service with the multitudes of now-adults who had once been her elementary school students. But, within an hour of take-off, my flight was cancelled. This story was born after I paid my respects in the same way depicted in the story, with cedar at the dawning of a new day.

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New Nonfiction coming in New England Review and an interview

My latest bit of nonfiction will be appearing in the upcoming winter issue of New England Review. It is an excerpt from my memoir that involves GI Joes, my parents’ divorce, and my father’s failing health. More than anything, in my mind, it is a letter of appreciation to my brother, Rye.

I’ll let you know when it is out. For now, I am in the depths of the quest for representation of this memoir.

In other news, I had the pleasure of interviewing Chelsea Hicks (WahZhaZhe), author of a Calm and Normal Heart, for Boulevard Magazine. We discuss writing while Native, land acknowledgments, language, and The Killers of the Flower Moon, among other things. It should be arriving in the next issue, so be on the lookout for that. It’s a good conversation.

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Upcoming short fiction in Reckoning

Be on the lookout for my new short fiction, “A Move to a New Country” in the newest issue of Reckoning. Reckoning is a journal of speculative work focused on environmental justice that I have been following since before their first issue. To say I’m very happy to be a part of it is an understatement. The eBook version of the issue is available already at Weightless Books and Amazon, with new material being added online weekly at https://reckoning.press/reckoning-8/. A printed version will be available in July, for those that partake.

My story will be released on the Reckoning website May 2oth, though it has already received a recommendation from Charles Payseur at Locus Mag. Check out the link for other prose and poetry he recommends, with new installments posted regularly.

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Convergence— Call for Artists

Sunrise Hunt
“Sunrise Hunt,” Oil on canvas, by Yatika Fields 2018

I’m pleased to announce I’ll be curating a multi-media, interdisciplinary art exhibit and workshop this coming year at the Center for Creativity in downtown Tulsa. The show will examine humanity’s place in the world with a goal of challenging the commonly held western ontology of humans as separate from or special among the natural world. I will be joined as curator by one of my good friends, fellow Osage, and Tulsa Artist Fellow, Yatika Starr Fields. Yatika’s work is an inspiration to me and it embodies much of the aims of this upcoming show and I couldn’t have asked for a better collaborator.

As a part of the show, I will be giving a craft talk on how to be present in the natural world through photography and writing, using examples from my own process. From this workshop, Yatika will gather ideas for, design, and paint a mural that will live in the Center for Creativity.

The Call for Artists PDF can be found here: Convergence: Challenging Anthropocentrism.

For additional information, or to read the Call for Artists in html, please see here: Call for Artists.

To see more of Yatika’s amazing and moving art, you can find him at Yatikafields.com.