Jessica Mehta is an Aniyunwiya multi-award-winning interdisciplinary artist and writer. As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, much of her work focuses on space, place, and identity in post-Colonial "America," and it often addresses the vast disparities faced by NDNs today.

Mehta is the author of 15 books, many of which are award-winning. Her 2021 releases include Selected Poems: 2000 - 2020 (winner of the Birdy Prize from Meadowlark Books), When We Talk of Stolen Sisters (Not a Pipe Publishing), and Antipodes (New Rivers Press).

Most recently, Mehta received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to India (2021/2022), a Regional Arts & Culture Council Make|Learn|Build Award (2021), and a residency at UCross (2021). She is currently completing the final year of her Ph.D. program at the University of Exeter (England). She serves as the post-graduate researcher at the Centre for Victorian Studies and is the first Native American to hold this position.

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