three collages

visual art, summer 2025

Shí dóó shimá

Shí dóó shítsilí

Shí cuzzins

danielle shandiin emerson

is a Diné writer from Shiprock, New Mexico on the Navajo Nation. Her clans are Tłaashchi’i (Red Cheek People Clan), born for Ta’neezaahníí (Tangled People Clan). Her maternal grandfather is Ashííhí (Salt People Clan) and her paternal grandfather is Táchii’nii (Red Running into the Water People Clan). She has a B.A. in Education Studies and a B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University. She has received support from GrubStreet, Lambda Literary, The Diné Artisan + Author Capacity Building Institute, Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Sundress Publications. She has work published and/or forthcoming from swamp pink, Poets.org, Yellow Medicine Review, Thin Air Magazine, The Chapter House Journal, and others. Her writing centers healing, kinship, language-learning, and family.