Indigo Som

Discipline: Poetry

Based In: Los Angeles, CA

Year at Millay: 1997

Fellowship: Robert W. Simpson Fellowship

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing, MN (2003); Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2000); Artist-in-Residence, Centrum, Port Townsend, WA (1999); Artist-in-Residence, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY (1996).

Website: http://indigosom.net/

Indigo Som (she/they) is a Cantonese diaspora queer cis femme & a lifelong guest on Miwok & Ohlone lands, mostly in Huchiun. She cross-pollinates practices & communities of healing, nourishment & transformation. Some of these practices are dreamwork, divination, making & growing, organizing & stewardship, pleasure, magic, & meditation. Some of the communities they have nurtured in recent years are Chinese Medicine & Magic; Asian Diaspora Deep Refuge Sangha at East Bay Meditation Center; & a queer cabin collective who rematriated the land to Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.