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