dg nanouk okpik reads for Lunch Poems
Channel: UC Berkeley Events
Date: 2023-11-15

dg nanouk okpik is an Iñupiaq-Inuit poet from south-central Alaska. She is the author of Blood Snow, published in 2022 by Wave Books, and Corpse Whale, which received the American Book Award. Her work has been published in several anthologies, including New Poets of Native Nations and Infinite Constellations, from this year. Her awards include a 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University and the 2022 May Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. okpik lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she is a Lannan Foundation Fellow at the Institute of American Indian Arts.