Layli Long Soldier

Layli Long Soldier received a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Bard College. 

Long Soldier is the author of We (Graywolf Press, 2026), long-listed for the National Book Award for Poetry, and Whereas (Graywolf Press, 2017), which won the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and was short-listed for the National Book Award for Poetry.

Long Soldier has received a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and a Whiting Writers’ Award. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.