Short bio:

Na Mee is a poet, storyteller, facilitator, and teaching artist. She wants her work to make you feel at home with yourself, with others, and with the world. She is a 2024 PEN America Emerging Voices fellow, a three-time Rasmuson Award recipient, and her memoir-in-progress was a 2025 Granum Prize finalist. Her work has received support from Hedgebrook, Kundiman, The Aspen Institute, and Millay Arts, and can be found in AGNI, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, and The Sun. Her work has been deeply rooted in community, from grassroots organizing to owning a post office / gathering space. She is passionate about removing barriers to creative writing, and she brings her 17+years of teaching experience to prison libraries, juvenile detention centers, K-12 schools, and literary orgs. Na Mee also facilitates gatherings, quilts, and asks to pet every single dog she meets. She lives and loves with her family on Lingít Aaní (aka Juneau, Alaska).

Long bio:

Na Mee is a poet, storyteller, facilitator, and teaching artist. She wants her work to make you feel at home with yourself, with others, and with the world.

She is a 2024 PEN America Emerging Voices fellow, a Narrative Prize finalist, and three-time Rasmuson Foundation Award recipient. Hedgebrook, Kundiman, The Aspen Institute, Storyknife, and Millay Arts have all supported her her and her memoir-in-progress, which was shortlisted for a Granum Prize in 2024 and a Finalist in 2025. She is grateful to places like The Sun, AGNI, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, The Offing, and others for taking good care of her stories and giving them homes.

Her work is deeply rooted in community, and from 2010-2018 she co-founded and led Woosh Kinaadeiyí, a grassroots spoken word organization that put on monthly open mics, poetry slams, and poetry workshops. From 2014-2024, she co-founded and owned a post office and gathering space in the heart of downtown Juneau.

As a facilitator and teaching artist, she leads poetry workshops and conversations for all kinds of topics and for all kinds of groups and ages. She is passionate about removing barriers to creative writing, and she brings her 17+years of teaching experience to prison libraries, juvenile detention centers, K-12 schools, and literary orgs. She specializes in working with communities on the margins (e.g. treatment centers for teens, incarcerated women, transracial adoptees, etc), focusing on the healing and liberating aspects of poetry.

Na Mee holds a BA in Social Justice (concentration in Racial Justice) and a Certificate in Conflict Studies from Hamline University. She is currently a Nancy Craig Blackburn Fellow and MFA candidate at Randolph College.

Na Mee lives and loves with her family on Lingít Aaní (Tlingit land, aka Juneau, Alaska).

Email for collaborations: yourfriendnamee@gmail.com

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