Natanya Anna Pulley
Visiting Writer, MFA in Writing
Profile
Natanya Ann Pulley is a Diné writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her clans are Kinyaa’áani and Táchii’nii through her mother. She’s published in numerous journals including McSweeney’s: The Monstrous and the Terrible Issue, Phantom Drift, The Offing, The Massachusetts Review (et al). Most recent anthologized essays can be found in Unbound: Composing Home (New Rivers Press), Shapes of Native Nonfiction (UWA Press), and The Diné Reader (UA Press) A former editor of Quarterly West, South Dakota Review, and the Gross and Unlikeable issue of Black Candies, she is the founding editor of Hairstreak Butterfly Review. Current editing projects include an anthology of Flash Fiction from Native American writers (UNM Press) and a Diné issue on craft for Hairstreak Butterfly Review.
Natanya received a PhD from the University of Utah in fiction writing with an emphasis in the evolution and de-evolution of novel forms. She is an associate professor of English at Colorado College where she teaches texts by Native American writers, fiction writing, and experimental forms.
Her short story collection With Teeth (Oct. 2019) is the winner of the 2018 Many Voices Project competition and was published by New Rivers Press. Her writing projects include a nonfiction collection The First Narcissism (UNM Press), a novel reimagining Peter Pan, and Gapp’s Basement (an experimental novel-in-stories). She is a 2022 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Creative Writing.