Halee Kirkwood

Halee Kirkwood is a poet and teaching artist from the western Gitchigami region now living in Minneapolis. They were an inaugural and returning Indigenous Nations Poets fellow in 2022 and 2023. They are a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a 2022 Minnesota State Arts Board grant recipient, and was a 2019 Loft Literary Center Mentor Series Fellow. Kirkwood is the winner of the 2022 James Welch Poetry Prize, published with Poetry Northwest. Their poetry and prose can be found in Prairie Schooner, Poetry Magazine, Poem-A-Day, Beloit Poetry Journal, and others. They are a first generation direct descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.