Annie Wenstrup (Dena’ina) is the author of The Museum of Unnatural Histories and a 2025 Whiting Award recipient. She held a Museum Sovereignty Fellowship with the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center (Alaska office) supported through a Journey to What Matters grant from the CIRI Foundation, and was an Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow in 2022 and 2023. Her poems have been published in Ecotone, New England Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She received her BFA in creative writing from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and her MFA from Stonecoast, the University of Southern Maine’s low-residency MFA program. She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.
