Internationally recognized award-winning poet (2006 Whiting Prize for Emerging Authors for Shapeshift from the University of Arizona Press, 2005 Lannan Foundation Marfa Residency Fellow, 2001 Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, 1999 Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship), Bitsui is based in Tucson but grew up in White Cone, Arizona, part of the Navajo Nation (he is Dine of the Todich'ii'nii – Bitter Water Clan – born for the Tl'izilani – Many Goats Clan). He holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program.

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