Tanya Tyler (she/her) is Diné from Tséʼałnáoztʼiʼí, New Mexico on the Navajo Nation. She graduated with honors from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Arts and double majored in English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her work has been published in Conceptions Southwest, Yellow Medicine Review and The Diné Artisans & Authors Capacity Building Institute Anthology. She is a second-year student in the MFA program in Creative Nonfiction at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). She serves as the Nonfiction Editor for Chapter House Journal at IAIA. She currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
