Halee Kirkwood’s forthcoming debut poetry collection, To Think of a Match, will be published with Northwestern University Press in March 2027. They were an inaugural and returning Indigenous Nations Poets (IN-NA-PO) fellow, a Tin House Summer Workshop alum, a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a Loft Literary Center Mentor Series Fellow, and a 2022 Minnesota State Arts Board grant recipient. Winner of the 2022 James Welch Poetry Prize, published with Poetry Northwest, their poems can be found in Poetry Magazine, Poem-A-Day, Ecotone, Water~Stone Review, and others. They are a first generation direct descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.