“I can’t wait to join the creative community at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. As a writer and a researcher, my work is deeply tied to place. My next project will focus on the allotment era and the birth of Tulsa. I can’t think of a better place to do the project than here.”
NONFICTION, JOURNALISM, PODCASTING
REBECCA NAGLE (CHEROKEE NATION)
Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist and citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Nagle’s debut book, By The Fire We Carry: the Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land, was an instant national bestseller, a New Yorker Book of the Year, and won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and was a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize and numerous other awards. Nagle is also the writer and host of the podcast This Land, which garnered millions of downloads worldwide, reached #2 on Apple’s Podcast charts, won two Webby awards, and was nominated for a Peabody. Her writing on Native representation, federal Indian law, and tribal sovereignty has been featured in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, The Guardian, and more. Nagle believes Indigenous communities deserve the same standard of journalism as the rest of the country, but rarely receive it. Nagle seeks to correct this. From the census to COVID to the Supreme Court, Nagle focuses on deeply and timely reporting that sheds light on issues of national importance. Nagle is a 2026–2028 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardee and is from Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
