syan jay is the author of Bury Me in Thunder (Sundress Publications, 2020). They are of Dził Łigai Si'an N'dee descent. They were the winner of the 2018 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize and Frontier Poetry’s 2019 Frontier New Voices Fellow. Their work has been published in POETRY, The Rumpus, Black Warrior Review, and more. They live in occupied Massachusett homelands.