Tanaya Winder is enrolled in the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, although she grew up on the Southern Ute Tribe, San Ignacio, Colorado. Her background is Southern Ute, Shoshone, Dine, Paiute and Black, She is a poet, vocal performer, including performance poetry, school teacher and motivational speaker. She has several songs on YouTube. With Cassandra opez she founded As/Us, an online literary magazine to promote women writers. She also helps manage Dream Warriors Management which promotes Native American artists. She published a work of poetry, "Words of Love." She attended Stanford and graduated in English with an emphasis in creative writing. She has an MFA from University of New Mexico. I discovered her in the book #Not Your Princess.
As Indigenous women writers and artists we are continually trying to exist, live and love in a world that doesn't always show its love for us. This means, part of the artist's caall is to turn past traumas on their head, upside down, inside out, lift it up then put it back down as something changed and transformed so that others can find something beautiful or hopeful in it. For that beauty and hope to exist we as Native American women must dive headfirst into the muck, ugliness, stark darkness of that wreckage. This is what we do--we recast wounds in unending light. And so light, love, and courage are circles we keep coming back to. Tanaya Winder (Duckwater Shoshone). (From the Book "#Not Your Princess: Voices of Native American Women.
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