Afterword
by Emerald GoingSnake
Detail of photograph by Danielle Shandiin Emerson
Emerald GoingSnake is a lesbian poet from the Giduwa and Mvskoke nations in Oklahoma. She was a 2023 and 2024 Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow and received the 2024 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award for poetry. Her work has been shared in Poets.org, Tribal College Journal, Terrain.org, Poetry for All, and elsewhere. Emerald has a BFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri.