Crisosto Apache

Crisosto Apache is originally from Mescalero, New Mexico, on the Mescalero Apache Reservation. Apache is Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné (Navajo) of the 'Áshįįhí (Salt Clan) born for the Kinyaa'áanii (Towering House Clan). Apache earned an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Apache’s debut collection GENESIS (Lost Alphabet, 2018) stems from the vestiges of memory and cultural identity of a self-emergence as language, body, and cosmology. Apache’s second collection is Ghostword (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2022). Apache’s poems have appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, Denver Quarterly, Hawai‘i Review, Red Ink, Cream City Review, Plume Anthology, and Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, and in photographer Christopher Felver’sbook Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits.

An editor-at-large for The Offing, Apache currently lives in the Denver metro area and teaches writing at various colleges and continues advocacy work for the Native American LGBTQ / Two-spirit identity.