Dog Flowers

by Danielle Geller

  Thank you to my weaving teachers: Mary Walker, Jennie Slick, Lori Begay, Barbara Teller Ornelas, and Lynda Teller Pete. You have given me another language with which to speak.

  Thank you to the Rona Jaffe Foundation, whose support came at a critical time in my career as a writer. Everything began that summer of 2016!

  Thank you to my agents, Jessica Friedman and Alexandra Christie, for ushering my work into the world.

  Thank you to the editors and publishers who have offered feedback and guidance on the work that surfaced alongside this project: the editors at Brevity, who selected my essay “Blood; Quantum” as the winner of their student contest; Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters, who published “Annotating the First Page of the First Navajo-English Dictionary” in their anthology This Is the Place; and the editors at The New Yorker, who excerpted my work on their platform.

  Thank you to Jack Jones Literary Arts for inviting me into their cohort of 2018 fellows, whose work was inspiring and invigorating. Thank you also to Natalie Diaz for providing me the opportunity to attend.

  My love and thanks to my editor Nicole Counts. I would not have made it to the end of this book without you.

  My love and thanks also to Marie Hathaway for editorial support on so many early drafts. I don’t feel I have the right words to thank you for your love and friendship over the years, but I hope we can sit somewhere and cry together soon.

  And finally, my love and thanks to my husband, Owen, who kept me fed and watered through the last long days of this book.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  DANIELLE GELLER is a writer of personal essays and memoir. She received her MFA in creative writing for nonfiction at the University of Arizona, and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award in 2016. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Brevity, and Arizona Highways, and has been anthologized in This Is the Place. She lives with her husband and two cats in British Columbia, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria. She is a member of the Navajo Nation: born to the Tsi’naajinii, born for the white man.

  daniellegeller.com

  Twitter: @dellegeller

  Instagram: @dellegeller

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