Beyond the Glittering World

Rooted in visions of Indigenous futurisms, Beyond the Glittering World proclaims and celebrates a rising generation of storytellers.

"A magnificent opus my heart hears in whispers and lee-lees, every chord resonating truths."

--ANGELINE BOULLEY, Sisters in the Wind >The collection brings together twenty-two emerging and established women, two-spirit people, and people of marginalized genders who immerse readers in poems, stories, and worlds that challenge and delight. From a museum heist 177 years in the making, to lyrical explorations of love and loss, to a tale where language itself becomes the force that saves the land, this boundary-breaking, genre-bending anthology illuminates the power of Indigenous voices.

DARCIE LITTLE BADGER (Lipan Apache) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comics. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: Elatsoe, named by TIME magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time, A Snake Falls to Earth, and Sheine Lende. Darcie has a PhD in oceanography and is married to a veterinarian named Taran. >KINSALE DRAKE (Diné) is a winner of the 2023 National Poetry Series for her debut poetry collection The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket (University of Georgia Press, 2024), a Southwest Book of the Year. A two-time winner of the Academy of American Poets University Prize and a former National Student Poet, her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She earned her BA from Yale University and directs programming for NDN Girls Book Club, which distributes free books to Indigenous youth and communities. She currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee as a graduate fellow at Vanderbilt University. >STACIE SHANNON DENETSOSIE is a citizen of the Navajo Nation. Her clans are Todích'íí'nii (Bitterwater Clan), born for Naakaii (Mexican Clan). She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Her debut short story collection, The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, was named a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year, a winner of a WILLA Literary Award, a Foreword INDIES Book Award, and a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist. Stacie received her MA from Utah State University and her MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Originally from Kayenta, Arizona, she currently resides in Northern Utah with her husband and cat.