ABOUT
D.A. Navoti is a multidisciplinary storyteller, composer, and writer of the Gila River Indian Community.
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The author and curator of essays, stories, and multimedia exhibits, his artistic work spans three landscapes — written, musical, and visual — a hybrid form maximizing Indigenous futures.
Navoti won the 2025 Nonfiction Literary Award from the Tucson Festival of Books and was awarded a 2025 CityArtist grant from The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. Previously, he was the 2023-24 Indigenous Community Liaison for 4Culture’s Poetry in Public program and was selected for Tin House’s 2024 Winter Online Workshop. Also in 2024, he was awarded the Native Creative Development Grant by The Evergreen State College and attended the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat.
Recipient of the 2022 Artist Trust Fellowship award and a 2022 Artist Support Program residency at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Navoti also served as Seattle Rep’s 2022-23 Native-Artist-in-Residence. 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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Navoti 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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