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Byron Aspaas

Byron Aspaas

Poetry Faculty
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MFA, Creative Writing, Institute of American Indian Arts
BFA, Creative Writing, Institute of American Indian Arts

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Byron F. Aspaas is a Diné (Navajo) poet whose works work has been published in journals and anthologies including RedInk, Yellow Medicine Review, the Denver Quarterly, and the Diné Reader and works remotely from Colorado as adjunct faculty at San Juan College while teaching continuing education courses with the Institute of American Indian Arts and the Identity Project.

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