Ibe Liebenberg (Chickasaw) is an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He is lives in Paradise, Ca and is a firefighter for the state and an English lecturer at Chico State University. He is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in both poetry and fiction. He has been published in POETRY Magazine, The ThreePenny Review, Ecotone, North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Sugar House Review, American Journal of Poetry, Blackbird, and finalist of the 2023, 2024, and 2025 Poetry Northwest James Welch Poetry prize. His (2025) poetry collection Birds at Night is the winner of the Sowell Emerging Writers Prize and the winner of Cutthroat Journals 2024 Joy Harjo Prize.