Chelsea T. Hicks

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Chelsea T. Hicks is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her work has been published in Poetry, the Paris Review, McSweeneyโ€™s, and elsewhere. She is the founding artist of Words of the People, and her book A Calm & Normal Heart won the National Book Foundationโ€™s 5 Under 35 Award. She is Osage.

  • A shadowy figure presses into a translucent cloth

    Where Are You? Rematriation and the Interconnections between Language, Body, and Land

    January 2026
    Chelsea T. Hicks, Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse
    Abdullah Hazbar is seen from outside of a tent in an IDP camp in Kirkuk, Iraq. On January 27, 2015, Abdullah was wounded by an Iraqi airplane bombing when he left the village with his family duringโ€ฆ
  • A photograph of a woman in indigenous garb standing on scrub grass hilltop with a painting nearby

    A Bilingual Wahzhazhe ie / English Poem

    September 2023
    Chelsea T. Hicks
    Image photographed by Cody Hammer ๐“ต๐“ฃ๐“Ÿ ๐“ฃฬ๐“Ÿ ๐“ช๐“ท๐“˜ฬ๐“ฅ๐“˜อ˜๐“ฌ๐“ฃ ๐“ฅ๐“ชฬอ˜๐“œ๐“˜ ๐“ท๐“˜๐“ง๐“Ÿฬ๐“บ๐“Ÿ ๐“ฃฬ๐“Ÿ ๐“ท๐“˜๐“ฎ๐“ค๐“˜ฬ ๐“จ๐“˜ฬอ˜๐“ป๐“˜อ˜ ๐“ฉ๐“ฃฬ๐“ต๐“Ÿ ๐“ต๐“Ÿฬ‹๐“ค๐“˜ ๐“ฉ๐“ฃฬ๐“ฅ๐“˜ ๐“ต๐“Ÿ ๐“˜๐“ฌ๐“˜ ๐“Ÿฬ ๐“ต๐“ฃ๐“ธ๐“ชฬอ˜ ๐“ฒ๐“Ÿ ๐“ค๐“˜๐“ต๐“ชอ˜ ๐“ป๐“˜ฬฬฬอ˜๐“ธ๐“Ÿ ๐“˜๐“ต๐“ฃฬอ˜๐“Ÿ ๐“Ÿฬ ๐“ฉ๐“˜อ˜๐“ธ๐“ชฬอ˜ ๐“ฌ๐“Ÿ ๐“ท๐“˜๐“ง๐“Ÿฬ๐“บ๐“Ÿ ๐“ฃฬ๐“Ÿ ๐“ท๐“˜๐“ฎ๐“ค๐“˜ฬ ๐“ฉ๐“ฃฬ๐“ฅ๐“˜ ๐“˜๐“ฌ๐“˜ ๐“ท๐“˜๐“ง๐“ถฬโ€ฆ