D.A. Navoti is a multidisciplinary storyteller, composer, and writer of the Gila River Indian Community.

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The author of essays, stories, and the forthcoming memoir One Pima Pilgrim, his artistic work spans three “landscapes” — written, musical, and visual — a hybrid form that explores what it means to be Indigenous in the 21st century.

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The recipient of the 2022 Artist Trust Fellowship award and a 2022 Artist Support Program residency at Jack Straw Cultural Center, D.A. also served as the 2022-23 Native-Artist-in-Residence at Seattle Rep. Previously, he was a writer fellow with Jack Straw Cultural Center and Hugo House, and his literary work has appeared in Homology Lit, Spartan, Indian Country Today, Cloudthroat, and elsewhere.

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In 2021, Navoti was recognized as an Indigenous Stories of Strength awardee by John Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, and he was a Resiliency Fund recipient from Potlatch Fund. In 2020, he was an inaugural Radical Imagination grantee from NDN Collective and was a CityArtist from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. Most recently, he founded and curated We the Indigenous, a West Coast literary series, and he founded Wellness-ish-ness, a blog for creative hot messes.

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Navoti teaches business courses for Seattle Colleges, and he is a content strategist for nonprofit organizations. He is a descendant of Hopi, Zuni, Yavapai-Apache, and O’otham (Gila & Salt River) tribes and lives with his partner in Seattle, Washington.

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D.A. Navoti is a multidisciplinary storyteller, composer, and writer of the Gila River Indian Community. Learn more at www.danavoti.com

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