Shaina A. Nez

 


This Land, Our Love

 

Shaina A. Nez is a Diné mother, writer, and doctoral student. She is Táchii’nii born for Áshįįhi. She earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from IAIA in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World from Woodhall Press, Chapter House Magazine, Abalone Mountain Press, and Between Pleasure and Pain: An Authentic Voices Anthology. She is an alum of Tin House and a recipient of the 2021 Open Door Career Advancement Grants for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) women writers. She guest read for events like Montana Book Festival, NOAZBOOKFEST, and Emerging Diné Writers Institute (EDWI). She is a member of Saad Bee Hózhǫ: Diné Writers’ Collective. Shaina is now a second-year doctoral student in Justice Studies for the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her work is in the field of Native American and Indigenous Creative Nonfiction (CNF).

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