Halee Kirkwood

Halee Kirkwood is an emerging Ojibwe poet, teaching artist, and bookseller living in Minneapolis, MN. Their work has been published in Poetry Magazine, Poem-A-Day, Water~Stone Review, and others. Kirkwood is the 2022 winner of the James Welch Poetry Prize, forthcoming with Poetry Northwest. They are a 2022 IN-NA-PO (Indigenous Nations Poets) Fellow, a 2021-22 Minnesota State Arts Board Recipient, and a 2019-2020 Loft Mentor Series Fellow. Kirkwood is a direct descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.