Annie Wenstrup is Dena’ina poet and the author of The Museum of Unnatural Histories (Wesleyan University Press, 2025, 87 Press 2026). She is a recipient of the 2025 Whiting Award in Poetry, the tenth annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers, and an Alaska Literary Award. The Museum of Unnatural Histories was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Four Quartet Prize and longlisted for the Forward Arts Foundation's Jerwood Prize.

Her work has been supported by a Storyknife Fireweed Fellowship, a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award, and a Museum Sovereignty Fellowship at the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, Anchorage Office, through a CIRI Foundation Journey to What Matters Grant.

Wenstrup received her BFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and her MFA from Stonecoast, the University of Southern Maine’s Low Residency Program.

She is the Winter 2026/27 Picador Guest Professor of Literature at the University of Leipzig.

Ask Me About These Ongoing Projects:

Ask me about Poetry Northwest's Northwest's Native Torchlight Series. Are you an Indigenous poet with an unpublished manuscript? I'd love to know more. Please email me at awenstrup @ poetrynw .org (no spaces) and tell me about yourself and your manuscript. Please include your tribal/community affiliations, a brief bio, and a short synopsis of the manuscript. It's not required but it's helpful to share where you situate your work within the larger field of Indigenous poetry. That might include which poets have influenced your writing, what forms and traditions your work engages with, or how you hope your writing will impact your communities.

I'm co-editing an anthology of Indigenous poetry with No'u Revilla and Mary Leauna Christensen (Wesleyan 2028). Submissions are currently closed, notifications will be sent late summer 2026.

I'm soliciting manuscripts for the Alaska Literary Series published by the University of Alaska Press. Find more information, including how to submit, at the University of Alaska Press* Submission portal.

*The press is part of the University Press of Colorado Consortium and they manage the portal. Please submit all queries through the portal to ensure your submission reaches me in a timely manner. Submissions sent directly to my email will languish, not for a lack of interest, but due to an inability to track them outside of the submission portal.

Annie Wenstrup

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