Two Poets

OONA UISHAMA NARVÁEZ and THOMAS DAYZIE

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OONA UISHAMA NARVÁEZ (she/they) is an Indigenous/Mexican American writer and artist from El Paso, Texas. After earning her BFA in English and Ameri­can Literature at UTEP, she is now an MFA candidate in Poetry at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her fascinations lie in af­fect theory, hybrid narrative structures, and translingual poetics. She is currently working on a mixed media project interrogating the lineages and limitations of language and illness.

 

THOMAS DAYZIE is a Diné-Jewish fiction writer and poet working on his first novel. He earned his undergraduate degree at Princeton Uni­versity with a concentration in English and certificates in Cre­ative Writing and Humanistic Studies. He is a second-year MFA student in Creative Writing at IAIA and an adjunct instructor in IAIA's undergraduate department. His interests include po­etry, experimental fiction, and continental philosophy.