Aimee Inglis

My work makes space for surfacing and tending grief, creating openings for joy and more accountable relationships with each other and the land. It is anti-racist and anti-fascist, decolonial, pro-queer and pro-choice. My work seeks to affirm life and our interconnectedness to all beings, through a lens of imperfection and complexity rather than performativity.

Bio

Aimee Inglis is a citizen of the Osage Nation born and raised in Anaheim, California, near the Santa Ana (Wanaawna) River, and is currently living in the heart of the Osage Nation in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and working for the Osage tribal government. She has worked in social movement organizations for housing and climate justice for fifteen years, has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and was a fellow with Indigenous Nations Poets. Her writing has appeared in Under a Warm Green Linden, Anaheim Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, About Place, Forging, and is forthcoming in a Two-spirit / Indigiqueer volume of poetry by Litmus Press.

Background

• community organizing and policy advocacy for fifteen years, on issues of economic, housing, and climate justice, primary with Tenants Together, Right to the City Alliance, and It Takes Roots.
• tarot studies since 2017, teachers include: Little Red Tarot, Diana Rose Harper, Cassandra Snow, Maria Minnis, Josefine McCarthy, Corinna Rosella
• herbalism study since 2018 from California Institute for Herbal Studies, Linda Black Elk, Joshua Dunn (Osage), Worts + Cunning Lunar Apothecary
• Osage language (WahZhaZhe ie) study since 2020 through Osage Nation Language Department
• my poetry mentors & teachers have included Layli Long Soldier, Esther Belin, Jennifer Foerster, Bojan Louis, and the faculty at IN-NA-PO