Beyond the Glittering World launch party

Come celebrate the launch of the Indigenous anthology Beyond the Glittering World, edited by Darcie Little Badger and local writers Stacie Shannon Denetsosie and Kinsale Drake, with an Indigenous open mic at the Marmalade Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library!

This event is free to attend and wheelchair accessible with front-row wheelchair designated seating. Masks will be required for the audience during the event, and ASL will be provided. Please reach out to Under the Umbrella for accessibility needs.

Copies of the book will be available for sale by Under the Umbrella.

Guidelines

• Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
• There will not be a live stream or recording available.
• Under the Umbrella reserves the right to cancel or postpone this event if necessary.
• Masks are required for the audience and will be provided at the door.
• If you have any other questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected].

About Beyond the Glittering World

Rooted in visions of Indigenous futurisms, Beyond the Glittering World proclaims and celebrates a rising generation of storytellers.

The collection brings together twenty-one emerging and established women, two-spirit people, and people of marginalized genders who immerse readers in poems, stories, and worlds that challenge and delight. From a museum heist 177 years in the making, to lyrical explorations of love and loss, to a tale where language itself becomes the force that saves the land, this boundary-breaking, genre-bending anthology illuminates the power of Indigenous voices.

About the Editors

STACIE SHANNON DENETSOSIE is a citizen of the Navajo Nation her clans are Todích'íí'nii (Bitterwater Clan), born for Naakaii (Mexican Clan). She is a fiction writer and poet. She was named a 2025 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Her debut short story collection, The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, was named a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year, a Foreword INDIES Book Award winner, a 2024 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist. Stacie received her MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and her MA from Utah State University. Originally from Kayenta, Arizona, she currently resides in Northern Utah with her husband and cat.

KINSALE DRAKE (Diné) is a winner of the 2023 National Poetry Series for her debut poetry collection The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket (University of Georgia Press, 2024), a Southwest Book of the Year. A two-time winner of the Academy of American Poets University Prize and a former National Student Poet, her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She earned her BA from Yale University and directs programming for NDN Girls Book Club, which distributes free books to Indigenous youth and communities. She currently lives in Nashville, Tennesses as a graduate fellow at Vanderbilt University.

DARCIE LITTLE BADGER is a Lipan Apache writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comics. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. She is also author of A Snake Falls to Earth and Sheine Lende. Darcie has a PhD in oceanography and is married to a veterinarian named Taran.

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