River 瑩瑩 Dandelion is a practitioner of ancestral medicine through writing poetry, teaching, energy healing, and creating ceremony. As a poet, he writes to connect with the unseen and unspoken so we can feel and heal. River facilitates creative writing workshops where participants connect with their own inner and collective power. Winner of the 2022 AWP Kurt Brown Prize, River is the author of remembering (y)our light, a debut chapbook on honoring matriarchs and ancestors across generations. He has been awarded residencies and fellowships from Headlands Center for the Arts, Tin House, Lambda Literary, Kundiman, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, and more. River's poetry has been thrice-nominated for Best of the Net and is published in Best New Poets, The Offing, The Margins, and elsewhere. He has performed and presented his work globally from the Dodge Poetry Festival to the University of Havana.
