The University of Arizona Press

Esther G. Belin is a Diné multimedia artist and writer, currently a faculty mentor in the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute for American Indian Arts. She graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts and the University of California, Berkeley. Her poetry collection From the Belly of My Beauty (1999) won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Her latest collection is Of Cartography: Poems (2017). She is a second-generation off-reservation Native American resulting from the U.S. federal Indian policies of termination and relocation. Her art and writing reflect the historical trauma from those policies as well as the philosophy of Saah Naagháí Bik’eh Hózho, the worldview of the Navajo people.