Collestipher D. Chatto
Armageddon Comes Four Days a Week
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Collestipher D. Chatto — Armageddon Comes Four Days a Week
Collestipher Dodge Chatto is Diné (Navajo) from Pinehill, a community located on the Ramah Diné Reservation in western New Mexico. His tribal clans are Towering House and Sleeping Rock People. In May of 2015, he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). His poems have been published in Tribal College Journal and Plume as well as in a number of anthologies. His awards include the Truman Capote Scholarship, The Lannan Foundation Scholarship, and the American Indian Graduate Center Fellowship. In 2014 and 2015 he attended the Naropa University Summer Writer’s Program. Besides poetry, he enjoys writing short fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, and painting and drawing. Currently, he is attending IAIA for his Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing focusing on poetry.