Na Mee is a multidisciplinary poet, teaching artist, and facilitator living on Lingít Aaní, Juneau, Alaska.

Described as a “tender powerhouse," Na Mee blends personal narrative, poetry, and the politics of identity. She is a Kundiman fellow and a Tin House alum. She is an Alaska Literary Award and three-time Rasmuson Foundation Award recipient, and she is grateful to have received additional support from The Aspen Institute, The Loft Literary Center, and Storyknife. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, AGNI, Feminist Review, Allium, Diode, and The Rumpus, as well as several books including Freeman's: Change (Grove Atlantic) and Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press). She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and her work received Honorable Mention for the Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes prize. She lives on Lingít Aaní (aka Juneau, Alaska) where she is raising a hilarious teenage son and a pack of sweet animals. 

As a teaching artist, she leads poetry workshops and facilitates conversations for all kinds of topics and for all kinds of groups and ages. She specializes in working with communities on the margins (e.g. treatment centers for teens, incarcerated women, transracial adoptees, etc), focusing on the healing and liberating aspects of poetry. She has taught in rooms from conferences to classrooms to prison libraries for 13 years.

Na Mee holds a BA in Social Justice (concentration in Racial Justice) and a Certificate in Conflict Studies from Hamline University. She is passionate about the power of art to tell our stories, bring people together, and activate positive social change. 

photo by Mary VanderJack