Tanaya Winder

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Tanaya Winder is a performance poet, writer, motivational speaker, and educator. She was raised on the Southern Ute reservation in Ignacio, Colorado and is an enrolled member of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe. [1] Her background includes Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Dine, and Black heritages. [2] With fellow Indigenous writer Casandra Lopez, she founded As/Us, an online literary magazine to "showcase the creative literary expressions and scholarly work of both emerging and established women writers from around the world." [3] With Lakota rap artist Frank Waln and other collaborators, she runs Dream Warriors Management, an organization to promote Indigenous artists and support young Native students. [4] In 2015, Winder published her first book of poetry, Words Like Love.

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Winder grew up on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in Ignacio, Colorado, and is of Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute heritage. [5] As a teacher, Winder has worked at Stanford and the University of Colorado Boulder's Upward Bound program. [6] In 2010, she won the Orlando Poetry Prize for her poem "The Impermanence of Human Sculptures." [7] In 2013 she appeared on TEDxABQ with a talk called "Igniting Healing." In 2015, Winder co-curated "Sing Our River Red," a traveling exhibit of single earrings to raise awareness of Canada's epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women. [8] The following year, she was named one of the "Native American 40 (Leaders) under 40" by the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. [9]

Education

Tanaya's interest in poetry began in her senior year of high school with the passing of her grandfather. Tanaya attended Stanford University and although she set out to become a lawyer, Tanaya switched to English in her sophomore year, graduating in 2008 with a BA in English with an emphasis on Creative Writing. [10] Tanaya attended graduate school at the University of New Mexico and received an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry. [11] Her dissertation was titled, "A collection of poems utilizing motifs of music, birds, and winter to explore themes of loss along with historical and contemporary trauma within Indigenous communities". [12]

Published books

Articles

Anthologies

Theatrical productions

2013 “The Order of Things" performed at Emotive Fruition in NYC at the Bowery Poetry.

2013 “Castaway, Castaway,” performed in Love, Redefined by the Poetic Theater Productions Company in NYC.

2013 “Love in a Time of Blood Quantum” (in its entirety, total of 10 poems) performed by the Poetic Theater Productions Company in NYC.

2012 “Somewhere Being Written,” “Love in a Time of Blood Quantum,” “W(hole):Self-Medication,” and “Ten Little Indians.” performed by Poetic Theater Productions Company in NYC.

Musical settings

2012 "Somewhere the Song," published by June Sky Press, performed by Princeton Singers and the University of Missouri River Campus choir. [13]

Poetry

Discography

Winder made contact with a Sicangu Lakota rapper, Frank Waln, where she found a new way to connect with her poetry. In 2018, she released the EP For Women and Girls on Fire which includes seven tracks including "History of the Breaking Hearts." The EP also features Indigenous artists such as Waln, Jon Chavarillo, Delbert Anderson, and Mic Jordan, [10] many of whom are members of Dream Warriors. [14]

In August 2019, Winder collaborated with rapper Jessa Calderon to release the single "Rise and Shine."

Awards

  1. 2009 University of New Mexico's Best English 102 Sequence for New Instructors
  2. 2009 Nominated for the First Peoples Fund's Community Spirit Award
  3. 2010: Orlando Prize in poetry from the A Room of Her Own Foundation
  4. 2012 Semi-Finalist for the Kenyon Review / Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry
  5. The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development named her one of “40 Under 40” emerging American Indian leaders
  6. 2014 Nominated for Best New Poets 2014 Anthology
  7. 2017 First Peoples Fund, Artists in Business Leadership fellow

Scholarships

  1. 2011 Hillerman/McGarrity Scholarship in Creative Writing
  2. 2009 Lynn Reyer Award in Tribal Community Development
  3. 2007-2009 Andrew Mellon Mays Fellow
  4. 2004-2008 Gates Millennium Scholar

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  3. ↑ "Mission Statement". As/Us: A Space for Women of the World. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  4. ↑ Luger, Chelsea (May 1, 2015). "Dream Warriors, a Scholarship For Native Artists, Launches Today". Indian Country Today. Indian Country Today Media Network. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
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