Layli Long Soldier
Native American poet
Layli Long Soldier
Layli Long Soldier is an Oglala Lakota writer, poet, visual artist, and educator. She is best known for her poetry collection Whereas (2017), which references the 2009 United States Congressional Apology to Native peoples. Her work uses visual poetics and often covers Indigenous history. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010), the poetry collection Whereas (2017), the digital poetry series Night Poems and Day Poems (2022), and the hybrid text We (2026). Long Soldier has received numerous literary honors, including the Whiting Award, the Lannan Literary Fellowship, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a 2026 MacArthur Fellowship and has been a finalist for the National Book Award. Her work addresses Indigenous history, the ethics of documentation, and motherhood.
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