Halee Kirkwood’s debut poetry collection, To Think of a Match, is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in March 2027. Kirkwood is an inaugural and returning Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po) fellow, a Tin House Summer Workshop alum, a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a Loft Literary Center Mentor Series Fellow, and a 2022 Minnesota State Arts Board grant recipient. Winner of the 2022 James Welch Poetry Prize, they have published with Poetry Northwest, and their poems can be found in Poetry Magazine, Poem-A-Day, Ecotone, Water~Stone Review, and elsewhere. Kirkwood grew up in Superior, and they are a first-generation direct descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.
