Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, and Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Horses. His honors include a Whiting Award, Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Arts Projects, and he was the 2023–2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. He is currently serving as the third Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and teaches in the MFA program at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

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