Kinsale Hueston

United States of America

Kinsale Hueston is the 2017-2018 National Student Poet for the West, the winner of two National Scholastic Art & Writing Gold Medals, and the Yale Young Native Storytellers Award for Spoken Word/Storytelling. An enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, Kinsale focuses her work mainly on modern issues facing her tribe, including violence against women, the loss of native languages, exploitation of resources, and racial prejudice.

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For my great-grandparents

The Lost Generation

St. Margaret's Episcopal School

04/26/2017

SMES Junior Kinsale Hueston Wins Storytellers Contest, Presents at Yale University

She was one of four students in the U.S. to present creative works at the Young Native Storytellers Festival last weekend on the campus of Yale University.

Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

"Grandmother"

St. Margaret's Episcopal School

03/15/2017

Six Tartans Win National Medals in Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Junior Kinsale Hueston won two national gold medals in writing...

National Student Poets Program

"Where I Come From (1992)"

Who I am and what came before me, inspired by a portrait of my family from 1992, when they lived for a short time in Montgomery, Alabama.

Yale Young Native Storytellers Festival, 2017

"Red Wrists"

A poem in response to another poem.

China, 2016

"Guangxi Contemplation"

Navajo Mountain, 2017

"Four Letter Words"

Yale Young Native Storytellers Festival, 2017

"Masaní (Stella)"

Navajo Mountain, 2017