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. The recipient, among other honors, of 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.