about kinsale
Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a 24-year-old poet/editor/playwright whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Best New Poets, Poets.org, Poetry Northwest, The Slowdown, Black Warrior Review, Teen Vogue, MTV, NYLON, TIME, NPR, and elsewhere. Her first book, THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET (University of Georgia Press, 2024), won the 2023 National Poetry Series. She teaches mental health and storytelling programming for Native youth as the director of NDN Girls Book Club.
Kinsale has served as a National Student Poet, appointed by the Library of Congress and the President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities, and she is currently an inaugural Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow. Her debut collection, The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket (University of Georgia Press, 2024), won the 2023 National Poetry Series. She has received fellowships from Mellon Mays, Bucknell University June Poets, the Aspen Institute, First Peoples Fund, Girlfriend Collective, and Vermont Studio Center.
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