Manny Loley
Manny Loley is Áshįįhí born for Tó Baazhní’ázhí; his maternal grandparents are the Tódích’ii’nii and his paternal grandparents are the Kinyaa’áanii. Loley received his PhD in English and literary arts from the University of Denver and his MFA in fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Loley is an inaugural Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow, a founding member of Saad Bee Hózhǫ́: Diné Writers' Collective, and the editor for Leading the Way: Wisdom of the Navajo People. Since 2018, he has served as director of the Emerging Diné Writers' Institute. His work has been published by Poetry, Pleiades, The Massachusetts Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, Broadsided, Arkansas International, The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection, Nihikéyah: Navajo Homeland, and The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature, among others. He is from Tsétah Tó Ák'olí on the Navajo Nation.