Joan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq with family from King Island (Ugiuvak) and Mary’s Igloo, Alaska. A 2018 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, her books include the essay collection A Few Lines in the Manifest, and several books and chapbooks of poetry, including The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, The Straits, Milk Black Carbon, Sublingual, and Another Bright Departure. She is a 2019-2020 Hilles Bush Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.