about the author
Kinsale has served as a National Student Poet, appointed by the Library of Congress and the President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities. She is currently an inaugural Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow and the director of the literary nonprofit NDN Girls Book Club. Her debut collection, The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket (University of Georgia Press, 2024), won the 2023 National Poetry Series. She has previously won fellowships from Mellon Mays, Bucknell University June Poets, the Aspen Institute & Aspen Ideas Festival, First Peoples Fund, Girlfriend Collective, NDN Collective, Center for Native American Youth, and Vermont Studio Center. She is a Summer 2024 Tin House attendee.