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Brendan Shay Basham

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in Anchorage, The United States

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Brendan Shay Basham (Diné) is a writer, artist, educator, and recovering chef, born in Alaska and raised in northern Arizona. He received his MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and his Bachelor's from the Evergreen State College. Swim Home to the Vanished is his first novel.

Basham's work has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Poetry Northwest, Santa Fe Literary Review, Red Ink, Yellow Medicine Review, among other publications. He is a recipient of Poetry Northwest’s inaugural James Welch Prize for Indigenous Writers, the Ucross Foundation’s first Native American Literary Award, and fellowships from the Truman Capote Trust, Tin House, and Writing By Writers.

He currently lives in Baltimore where he runs a make-believe café. ...more

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Swim Home to the Vanished

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May 03, 2023 07:40AM

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“Humans over the years have lost their ability to commune with the ocean and desert and mountains, everything below and beneath, all the sacred directions. From the overfished waters to the now-empty mines, the polluted rivers now conduits for oil, the slashed and burned forests choking out what lungs we have left. It is only a matter of time before we are all evicted. Might be too late to stop the storm, but not too late to hide.”
― Brendan Shay Basham, Swim Home to the Vanished

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“In the long scheme of things," she says, "we are but temporary inhabitants of this world, dirt and ash, recycled stardust."
"But in death, we become memory," Damien says. "In grief, we're made permanent.”
― Brendan Shay Basham

tags: death, grief

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