A Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist and a descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, Kenzie Allen was born in West Texas. She holds a BA in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, an MFA in poetry from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, and a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her collection Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024) was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She received a 92NY Discovery Prize, a James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, and the 49th Parallel Award in Poetry. She is an assistant professor of English at York University.
