Laura Da’ is the author of the poetry collection Tributaries (University of Arizona Press, 2015) and the chapbook The Tecumseh Motel, which was published in Effigies II: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing, Pacific Rim (Salt Publishing, 2014). She received a 2015 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship, was a 2015 Jack Straw Writer, and was a 2014–15 Made at Hugo House fellow. She studied creative writing at the University of Washington and the Institute of American Indian Arts.