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Chelsea T. Hicks is a Wahzhazhe writer and citizen of the Osage Nation who holds an MA from UC Davis and an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her writing has been published in the Paris Review, Poetry, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Her first book, A Calm & Normal Heart, was longlisted for the PEN America Robert W. Bingham Prize and received a 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on ancestral land.