Julian Ankney is Niimíipuu ‘Nez Perce’ and lives on both the Nez Perce Reservation in Lapwai, Idaho and Portland, Oregon. Ankney is the Director for Native American Programs, co-director of the Visiting Writers Series, and co-fiction editor for Blood Orange Review at Washington State University Vancouver/Pullman. She teaches Native American and multicultural literature, creative writing, and has co-taught a language revitalization class that focuses on reclamation, revitalization, and the importance of Nez Perce language and culture. Ankney is a voice on The Old Mole at Portland’s KBOO radio, and she was featured in Berkeley Hearst Museum’s online exhibit, Cloth that Stretches: Weaving Community Across Time and Space. Her work is published in Talking River, Yellow Medicine Review, and EcoArts on the Palouse. Lastly, Ankney is a member of luk’upsíimey, The North Star Collective (an Indigenous Plateau literary advocacy group).
Julian was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.