Qwo-Li Driskill

Qwo-Li Driskill is a (unenrolled) Cherokee poet and scholar. Driskill earned a BA from the University of Northern Colorado, an MA from Antioch University Seattle, and a PhD from Michigan State University.

S/he is the author of Walking with Ghosts (Salt Publishing, 2005), which was nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory (University of Arizona Press, 2016), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in 2017. 

Driskill is the coeditor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (University of Arizona Press, 2011); Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions is Theory, Politics, and Literature (University of Arizona Press, 2011); and Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine (2007). 

S/he is the Director of Graduate Studies and the Queer Studies Curriculum Organizer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University.