Chris Hoshnic is Diné from Sweetwater, Arizona. He is currently earning his B.A. in English at Arizona State University. In 2013, he graduated with an Associates in Video Production at Glendale Community College. His short film “Ozzy” premiered at the 2018 Jerome International Film Festival. He was a finalist in screenplay competitions at Austin Micro Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival and Shore Scripts. In 2022, he was a Writing Fellow with the Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute (EDWI). He was a Special Projects Intern for Thousand Languages Project and will translate work from Hayden’s Ferry Review this Fall. In the summer of 2023, Chris was a fellow of the Native American Media Alliance’s Writers Seminar and will be a Fall 2023 Teaching Artist at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Writing.
Chris was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with Arizona State University – he was chosen in the Undergraduate Student Fellow category.