Layli Long Soldier is Oglala Lakota—her family is from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and northwestern Idaho. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is a two-time recipient of the Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship. She is also a recipient of the 2009 Naropa University Poetry Scholarship. She has served as editor-in-chief for “Native Language Network” and other publications for the Indigenous Language Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her first chapbook of poetry is titled Chromosomory (Q Ave Press, 2009).