Sy Hoahwah

Sy Hoahwah (Yapai Nʉʉ/Kwaharʉ/Southern Arapaho) is an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma. He received his M.F.A in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas. Hoahwah is the author of three collections of poetry, Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride, Night Cradle, and Velroy and the Madischie Mafia. In 2013, Sy was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.