Tacey Atsitty is a Swenson Visiting Writer putting on a craft class on Thursday March 21st at 10:30am in the USU Library room 101 and a Reading on Thursday March 21st at 12:00pm in the USU Library room 101.

Tacey M. Atsitty, Diné (Navajo), is Tsénahabiłnii (Sleep Rock People) and born for Ta'neeszahnii (Tangle People). She was born in Logan, UT, grew up in Kirtland, NM, but is originally from Cove, AZ.

Atsitty is a recipient of the Wisconsin Brittingham Prize for Poetry and other prizes. She holds bachelor's degrees from Brigham Young University and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY; EPOCH; Kenyon Review Online; Prairie Schooner; When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry; Leavings, and other publications. Her first book is Rain Scald (University of New Mexico Press, 2018), and her second book is (At) Wrist (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023).

She is the director of the Navajo Film Festival, a member of Advisory Council for BYU's Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, a board member for Lightscatter Press of SLC, and a McKnight Fellow.