Edited by Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie
Torrey House Press
11/11/2025, paperback
SKU: 9798890920300
Rooted in visions of Indigenous futurisms, Beyond the Glittering World proclaims and celebrates a rising generation of Indigenous women and genderqueer storytellers.
The collection brings together twenty-two emerging and established writers whose poems and stories expand the imagination an. From a museum heist 177 years in the making, to lyrical explorations of love and loss, to a tale where language itself becomes the force that saves the land, this boundary-breaking, genre-bending anthology illuminates the power of Indigenous voices.
Reviews:
"A map of survival and becoming, drawn by Indigenous hands that remember the stars. These stories burn, bless, and build. They carry our aunties' laughter, our languages, our rebellions, and our love into futures shaped by kin and courage. These aren't just imagined worlds--they're remembered ones. This is the future speaking in its oldest tongue, and we'd do well to listen." --Shane Hawk, co-editor of the Never Whistle at Night series
"Reading these stories and poems filled with such strength and beauty, left me feeling echoes of both the ancestors and future generations. These voices braid together to show us how the world is, and how it could be. Beyond the Glittering World is medicine." --Hillary Smith, Black Walnut Books
"A vital addition to a burgeoning canon of Indigenous feminist creative work. The writers in this anthology write with a beauty and historical consciousness that is inspiring and much-needed in the face of the colonial-capitalist machine called America." --Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence
"Packs a fierce punch. With a combination of new poetic voices and established favorites, this anthology reminds us that Indigenous feminisms wield language to create intimate and critical spaces to transform the darkness and violence of colonialism and capitalism into nurturing worlds of strength, power, and life." --Dr. Mishuana Goeman, Professor and Chair of Indigenous Studies, University at Buffalo
About the Editors:
Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Best New Poets, Poets.org, Black Warrior Review, Teen Vogue, TIME, NPR, and elsewhere. Her first book, The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket, won the 2023 National Poetry Series. She is the director of NDN Girls Book Club and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Darcie Little Badger (Lipan Apache) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comics. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: Elatsoe, named by TIME magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time; A Snake Falls to Earth, and Sheine Lende. Darcie has a PhD in oceanography and is married to a veterinarian named Taran.
Stacie Shannon Denetsosie (Diné) is a fiction writer and poet. Her debut short story collection, The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, was named a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year, a Foreword INDIES Book Award winner, a 2024 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist. Stacie received her MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and her MA from Utah State University. Originally from Kayenta, Arizona, she currently resides in Northern Utah with her husband and cat.