Anna Redsand

Crevice: A Life Between Worlds, was released on May 2, 2025 by Choeofpleirn Press, where it won the Kenneth Johnston Nonfiction Book Award 2024. It was also a semi-finalist in the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Contest 2024. Through stories and reflection, the book explores bicultural belonging and identity, the role of language in identity, and the effects of colonization. In the collection, Anna examines her settler heritage as the daughter of evangelical missionaries in the Navajo Nation––from an early age and continuing through her later work in Diné bilingual-bicultural education as an adult. She probes how colonization has been part of systemic racism in the US and explores the debt she may owe to the Indigenous culture that continues to play a part in her life. Seven of the thirteen essays in the collection were previously published in the literary journals Solstice, DoveTales, Isthmus, and Clockhouse, in the anthology Fertile, and in the Gallup Independent. "Naturalization" was notable in Best American Essays 2014.

An essay about how an interracial relationship lived on in my teaching writing to my African American students. An exploration of cross-cultural identity. In Clockhouse Review, Summer 2013. Listed as Notable in The Best American Essays 2014.

Award winning montage about mortality through the experience of first tastes. Published in Mount Hope, Fall 2013.