Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a poet, playwright, and performer based out of the Southwest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Poets.org, Best New Poets, MTV, Teen Vogue, Nylon, Time Magazine, and elsewhere. She recently graduated from Yale University, where she received the J. Edgar Meeker Prize, the Academy of American Poets College Prize, and the Young Native Playwrights Award. She is the winner of the 2022 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize and the founder of NDN Girls Book Club (www.ndngirlsbookclub.org).
In what ways does nature inspire or inform your work?
My work seeks to celebrate the wonders and beauty of what is all around us; our relationships, our languages.
