Kinsale Drake

Kinsale Drake is a Diné poet and the author of The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket (University of Georgia Press, 2024), winner of the 2023 National Poetry Series. She coedited, with Stacie Shannon Denetsosie and Darcie Little Badger, the anthology Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms (Torrey House Press, 2025), for which she won an American Book Award. 

Drake’s other honors include the Adroit Poetry Prize and the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize from Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts. She lives in Nashville, on the ancestral hunting and traditional lands of the Cherokee, Shawnee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek peoples.