Sherwin Bitsui

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Sherwin Bitsui

Born	1975 Holbrook, Arizona
Occupation	Writer, painter
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Sherwin Bitsui is originally from Baaʼoogeedí (White Cone, Arizona), on the Navajo Nation. Currently, he lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is Navajo of the Todichʼíiʼnii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tłʼízíłání (Many Goats Clan).

He holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program. He is the recipient of the 2000-01 Individual Poet Grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, the 1999 Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, a Soul Mountain Residency, a Lannan Foundation Literary Residency Fellowship and more recently, a 2006 Whiting Writers' Award.

Sherwin has published poems in American Poet, The Iowa Review, Frank (Paris), Lit Magazine, and elsewhere. His poems were also anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century.

Shapeshift (2003) is his first book. In his second book of poetry, Floodsong^[1] (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), Bitsui intones landscapes real and imagined, populated with the wrens, winds, and reeds of the high desert and constructed from the bricks and gasoline of the city.^[2]

Selected works

Poetry

Floodsong, Copper Canyon Press, 2009, winner of the American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award
Shapeshift, University of Arizona Press, 2003.

References

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Name	Bitsui, Sherwin
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Short description	American artist
Date of birth	1975
Place of birth	Holbrook, Arizona
Date of death
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