LITERARY WRITER

KASHONA NOTAH

Kashona Notah is a fiction writer who grew up on the West Side of San Bernardino, California. Among other honors, he is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, the Hopwood Award for Short Fiction, the Hopwood Award for Nonfiction, the Mary Steinbeck Dekker Award, the Louis Sudler Prize, and the National Native Media Award. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Nimrod International Journal, Oklahoma Humanities, Yellow Medicine Review, and elsewhere. He has also received support from Blue Mountain Center, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Zell Post-MFA Fellowship. 

At 27, after almost ten years in the workforce and receiving his GED from San Bernardino Adult School, Notah attended college for the first time. He now holds a BA in English with a minor in Native American Studies from Stanford University and an MFA in fiction from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. He lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he is a 2024-2026 Tulsa Artist Fellow. He is an Iñupiaq tribal citizen and shareholder, raised since birth within a Diné family through his late adoptive father, a proud member of the Navajo Nation.