Awarded the Indigenous Poets Prize in the Adult (Arizona) category
Close-up of Conversion by Thomas “Breeze” Marcus
Read the PDF of the poem here.
Land is a Body is a Religion⇰
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Chris Hoshnic is a Diné Filmmaker and Poet from Sweetwater, Arizona. He is currently earning his BA in English at Arizona State University. In 2013, he graduated with an Associates in Video Production at Glendale Community College. His short film “Ozzy” premiered at the 2018 Jerome International Film Festival. He was a finalist in screenplay competitions at Austin Micro Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival, and Shore Scripts. Hoshnic has been a 2022 Writing Fellow with the Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute (EDWI), a 2023 Screenwriting Fellow with the Native American Media Alliance’s Writers Seminar, and a 2023 Poetry & the Senses Fellow.