Rooted in visions of Indigenous futurisms, Beyond the Glittering World proclaims and celebrates a rising generation of storytellers.
The collection brings together twenty-two emerging and established women, two-spirit people, and people of marginalized genders who immerse readers in poems, stories, and worlds that challenge and delight. From a museum heist 177 years in the making, to lyrical explorations of love and loss, to a tale where language itself becomes the force that saves the land, this boundary-breaking, genre-bending anthology illuminates the power of Indigenous voices.
Edited by:
Stacie Shannon Denetsosie is the award-winning author of The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories (Torrey House Press, 2023), a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize and the Reading the West Award in Debut Fiction, and the winner of the Women Writing the West WILLA Award in Multiform Fiction and a Gold Foreward Indies Award.
Stacie is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and holds an MA from Utah State University. An enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, she is Todích'íí'nii (Bitterwater Clan), born for Naakaii (Mexican Clan), her maternal grandparents are Tł'ízí lání (Many Goats), and her parental step-grandparents are Bilagáana (European American). She is from the Navajo Nation. She lives in Northern Utah with her husband and cat.
Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a winner of the 2023 National Poetry Series for her debut poetry collection THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET (University of Georgia Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She directs programming for NDN Girls Book Club, which distributes free books to Indigenous youth and communities, and lives in Nashville, TN.
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and was a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received a Nebula Award, an Ignyte Award, and a Newbery Honor and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her third book, Sheine Lende, a prequel to Elatsoe, was a USA Today bestseller. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran.
