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Tacey M. Atsitty (Diné) is a poet of the Tsénahabiłnii (Sleeping Rock), born for Ta’neeszahnii (Tangle People).

Early life and Education
Tacey M. Atsitty (Diné), is Tsénahabiłnii (Sleep Rock People) and born for Ta’neeszahnii (Tangle People). She was born in Logan, UT and grew up in Kirtland, NM but is originally from Cove, AZ. Her paternal grandfather is Hashk’áánhadzóhí, also known as Yucca Fruit Strung-Out-In-A-Line People and her maternal grandfather is Tábąąhí, also known as the Water Edge People. Both are from Cove, Arizona. . Born in Logan, Utah, she spent most of her childhood in Kirtland, New Mexico.

Atsitty attributes he writing to her mother and grandmother stating in a podcast called 21st Century Native Leaders, "So there were four journals," one for each child, Atsitty herself, the older sister, and younger brother and sister and "she would write almost daily in. Writing about us, and you know, us growing up, and kind of our quirks and stuff like that." She goes on to mention how her grandmother liked to write stories and so she would encourage Atsitty to do the same and once she "got into high school [she] started doing poetry slams," and the rest took off from there.

In 2004, she received her bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2009. In 2011, At Cornell University she received her MFA in Creative Writing.

Career
Atsitty is the poetry editor for Eggtooth Editions chapbook contest, and is a member of the Rock Canyon Poets Society.

She also served as a contributing editor for "When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry". This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. The book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the five geographically organized sections. Each section beginning with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closing with emerging poets, see Eleazar on Harvard Indian College, Luci Tapahonso, Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, Ray Young Bear. "With 161 authors, 400 pages of poetry, over 300 years of coverage (1678-2019), and more than 90 nations represented, the Harjo/Norton is the most inclusive and the most comprehensive anthology of Native American poetry to date" states Dean Rader, an English professor at the [University of San Francisco]].

Atsitty serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies; her title is listed as "Indigenous Peoples Representative". The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies is a part of the many BYU Research Institutes.

In addition, she coordinates the Native American Program and organizes the Intermountain All-Women Hoop Dance Competition at This Is the Place Heritage Park in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Poetry
Atsitty's poem Rain Scald is a collection of poems divided into three sections, Tséyi', Gorge Dweller, and Tóhee'. Navigating through an intimate landscape with lyrical and experimental verse, she provides a meditation of courage, spiritual resilience and hardship. "Tacey M. Atsitty adds a profound and necessary dimension to ecopoetics and ecotheology in these beautifully-wrought poems of place, memory, and Navajo culture".

Her Chapbook,, explores Atsitty's first experience of a broken heart at a very young age. As the poems progress throughout the chapbook, the reader follows a journey from girlhood into womanhood and the pursuit of healing from both physical and emotional trauma.

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Podcasts Featured In
Another Testament of Jesus Christ Podcast – “2 Nephi 17 – Interview with Saanii Atsitty” (January 2020)

Lehi’s Living Legacy Podcast – “Interview with Tacey Atsitty” (January 2020)

Brigham Young University Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Podcast – “Tacey M. Atsitty – Rain Scald, Poems Writing Westward” January 25, 2019

POETRY Magazine Podcast, “Tacey M. Atsitty reads from ‘Lacing’” June 11, 2018

Twenty-First Century Native American Leaders Podcast “Writer/Poet: Tacey M. Atsitty” January 2018

Visual Recordings and Readings
POG Arts of Tucson Reading Series. “Brandon Shimoda and Tacey M. Atsitty” February 20, 2021

BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies “Tacey Atsitty – Readings from Rain Scald” June 6, 2016

Cornell University, “A Musical Evening of Poetry featuring composer Joseph Klein” April 15, 2011

Other Works

 * Part of the introduction for the Volume 212, number 3 of Heid E. Erdich's Poetry magazine:


 * Listed contributor to the Buffalo Cactus and Other New Stories from the Southwest book.


 * Wrote the introduction for Volume 61, Number 4 of the Massachusetts Review publication in Winter 2020

Translated Works
Jelenkor: Irodalmi És Művészeti Folyóirat (January 2014, Hungarian).

FO Publishing “Sonnet for My Wrist,” “Round Our Wrists,” “Lacing XI,” and “Lacing XIII,” (Bulgarian) forthcoming.

Awards
Awarded the Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, by the Truman Capote Literary Trust.

Winner of the Corson-Browning Poetry Prize and the Philip Freund Prize from Cornell University.

Awarded the Morning Star Creative Writing Award from the Native American Literature Symposium.