Julian Ankney 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.
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).