Short bio:

Na Mee is a poet, storyteller, facilitator, and teaching artist. Her wish for her work is 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. A Tin House alum and a Nancy Craig Blackburn Fellow at Randolph College MFA, Na Mee has been awarded fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook, Kundiman, The Aspen Institute, Storyknife, and Millay Arts (summer 2026). Her memoir-in-progress was shortlisted for a Granum Prize in 2024 and a Finalist in 2025, and her work can be found in The Sun, AGNI, The Rumpus, The Offing, and Lit Hub. Her work is deeply rooted in community, and in 2010 she co-founded and led Woosh Kinaadeiyí, a grassroots spoken word organization. In addition to writing, NaMee facilitates gatherings, teaches workshops, and volunteers at her local animal shelter. 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. Her wish for her work is 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. She has received an Alaska Literary Award and her memoir-in-progress was shortlisted for the Granum Prize in 2024 and was a Finalist in 2025. Na Mee has been awarded fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook, Kundiman, The Aspen Institute, Storyknife, and Millay Arts (summer 2026). 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 in 2010 she co-founded and led Woosh Kinaadeiyí, a grassroots spoken word organization that put on monthly open mics, poetry slams, and poetry workshops in her community.

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 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. She has taught in rooms from conferences to classrooms to prison libraries for 16 years.

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 student at Randolph College.

And, she used to own a post office! Ask her more :)

Na Mee lives and loves with her family on Lingít Aaní (Tlingit land, aka Juneau, Alaska), where she also volunteers at her local animal shelter.

Email for collaborations: yourfriendnamee@gmail.com

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