Career
He is Navajo of the Todichʼíiʼnii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tłʼízíłání (Many Goats Clan). He holds an American Finance Association from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program. In 2012, he was honored with an NACF Artist Fellowship in Literature.
He has served in visiting faculty positions, including distinguished visiting, Eminent Writer for the University of Wyoming, Visiting Hugo Writer University of Montana, and San Diego State University, where he has been on creative writing faculty since 2013.
Also, since 2013, he has served on the faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts in the Low Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program Sherwin has published poems in American Poet, The Iowa Review, Frank (Paris), Literature Magazine, and elsewhere.
His poems were also anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas. Many of Bitsui"s poems explore how different values, concepts and ideas become when experienced in Navaho as opposed to English.
Currently, he lives in Tucson, Arizona.
