Layli Long Soldier — Contemporary Writers Series

Presented by the Contemporary Writers Series through the Creative Writing and Literature program at Mills College. 

This online event is free and open to the public.
Registration required. Broadcast link will be provided on the day of the event. 

Layli Long Soldier is the author of Chromosomory and WHEREAS, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her poems have appeared in  POETRY Magazine, The New York Times, The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review Online, BOMB and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an NACF National Artist Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a Whiting Award. Long Soldier holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Bard College. She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.