Biography
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.
Her debut short-story collection was also selected by the Utah Center for the Book for the “Great Reads from Great Places” list at the 2024 National Book Festival hosted by the Library of Congress and was named a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year.
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.
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Stacie Denetsosie is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and holds an MA from Utah State University.
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Born in Kayenta, Arizona, Stacie lived with her grandmother for the first four years of her life. Her first language was Navajo. She is the eldest of two siblings and all her cousins. She is a first-generation graduate with a Master of Arts Degree from Utah State University and an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Fiction.
Stacie writes about growing up Diné far from home, returning home, and community connection. She lives close to her mother in Logan, Utah, with her husband and cat. When she’s not writing, she can be found watching Derry Girls or Pen15, or exploring the Desert Southwest with her husband.
