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Sherwin Bitsui

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Occupation
  
Writer, painter

Books
  
Flood Song, Shapeshift

Name
  
Sherwin Bitsui

Notable works
  
Floodsong

Genre
  
Poetry


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Notable awards
  
American Book Award; PEN Open Book Award

Education
  
Institute of American Indian Arts, University of Arizona

Awards
  
American Book Awards, Whiting Awards

Sherwin bitsui


Sherwin Bitsui (born 1974 Fort Defiance, Arizona) is originally from Baaʼoogeedí (White Cone, Arizona), on the Navajo Nation. His book, Floodsong, won the American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award.

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Life

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He is Navajo of the Todichʼíiʼnii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tłʼízíłání (Many Goats Clan).

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 NACF Artist Fellowship in Literature. He has served in visiting faculty positions, including distinguished visiting, Eminent Writer for the University of Wyoming, Visiting Hugo Writer University of Montana, and San Diego State University, where he has been on creative writing faculty since 2013. Also, since 2013, he has served on the faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts in the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing program.

Sherwin has published poems in American Poet, The Iowa Review, Frank (Paris), Lit Magazine, and elsewhere. His poems were also anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas.

Many of Bitsui's poems explore how different values, concepts and ideas become when experienced in Navaho as opposed to English.

Currently, he lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Selected works

Poetry

  • Flood Song. Copper Canyon Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-55659-308-6. 
  • Shapeshift. University of Arizona Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8165-2342-9. 
  • References

    Sherwin Bitsui Wikipedia