Douglas Suano Bootes is a multi-discipline, artist/de-colonizer of Saponi-Catawba, Cherokee, and Swiss-German descent. Recipient of the N. Scott Momaday, Richard Bradford, and Truman Capote writing awards, his poetry and fiction have been published in jmww, Connotations Press, Exquisite Duets, Santa Fe Literary Review, Voice the Spiriture: Neo-Modern Literature from IAIA, and the Santa Fe New Mexican’s Pasatiempo and Reporter.