JESSICA (DOE) MEHTA

ARTIST BIO

Jessica Doe is an Aniyunwiya (Cherokee Nation) interdisciplinary writer, artist, and scholar. She serves as Assistant Director and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at TU's Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, where her work centers Indigenous sovereignty, public humanities, and curation. Her doctoral research examined intersections of women's poetry and eating disorders with a focus on Sylvia Plath, later expanding to contemporary Indigenous poetics. As a Fulbright Senior Scholar in India, she taught the first generative poetry workshop at her host university site. Her forthcoming publications include [sp]RED (Sundress Publications), and Those We Feed and Sweet Heart (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House).

ARTIST PROJECT INFO

This project will advance three interconnected works of Indigenous horror fiction. During the project period, I will complete editorial revisions with Penguin Random House/McClelland & Stewart for my forthcoming short story collection, Those We Feed, and novel, Sweet Heart, preparing both manuscripts for publication. I will also complete the manuscript of my novel-in-progress, The Spirit Plate. Together, these works explore the possibilities of Indigenous horror as a form of cultural memory, reclamation, and storytelling, drawing on Aniyunwiya perspectives to examine haunting, colonial violence, and the ways the past persists within contemporary Indigenous life.

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