Sherwin Bitsui (Diné) is the author of Dissolve (Copper Canyon Press, 2018) and Flood Song (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press, 2003). He is of the Bįį’bítóó’nii’ Tódi’chii’nii clan and is born for the Tlizilłani’ clan. He is from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. His honors include the 2011 Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Native Arts & Culture Foundation Fellowship for Literature, a PEN Open Book Award, an American Book Award, and a Whiting Writers Award. Bitsui teaches for the MFA in creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts.