NaMee is a poet, storyteller, and facilitator. 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 Kundiman fellow, and three-time Rasmuson Foundation Award recipient. Her piece “Tiger Mom” was nominated by AGNI for Best of the Net and her memoir-in-progress was shortlisted for a 2024 Granum Prize. VONA, Hedgebrook, Storyknife and others have generously supported her work. She is grateful to places like Lit Hub, AGNI, Feminist Studies, Washington Square Review, The Rumpus, and others for taking good care of her stories and giving them homes.

As a teaching artist, she leads poetry workshops and facilitates 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 13 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 candidate at Randolph College.

She lives and loves with her family on Lingít Aaní (Tlingit land, aka Juneau, Alaska), where she also serves on the board of the local animal shelter.

Email for collaborations: yourfriendnamee@gmail.com

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