The Missing Morning Star

STACIE SHANNON DENETSOSIE

STACIE SHANNON DENETSOSIE (Diné) is Todích’íí’nii (Bitterwater Clan), born for Naakaii (Mexican Clan). She is a fiction writer and poet. Stacie is from Kayenta, Arizona, but currently resides in Northern Utah with her husband and cat. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts and her Master of Arts from Utah State University. Her work has appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, Phoebe Magazine, and Cut Bank, among other publications. She is a recipient of the UCROSS Native American Fellowship and the Prague Summer Program Poetry Fellowship. Her debut story collection The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories was named a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year, was a 2024 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist, and a Gold Forward INDIES award winner. The Missing Morningstar has been chosen by the Utah Center for the Book to be included in the “Great Reads from Great Places” list for the 2024 National Book Festival of the Library of Congress.