Bonney Hartley is a member of Stockbridge-Munsee Community and founding member of Mohican Writers Circle. She holds an MSocSci from University of Cape Town and is a recent MFA Creative Writing graduate from Institute of American Indian Arts for poetry. Her poetics are frequently about matters of returns, rivers, repair, and reclamation. Her work has been featured in Stonecoast Review, The Last Milkweed (Tupelo Press), and Boundless (Amherst College Press), among others. She is a 2024 Indigenous Nations Poets fellow and 2025 Forge Project Fellow. Bonney lives in Mohican homelands in Massachusetts and serves her Tribe as a repatriation specialist.