Mistee St. Clair was born and raised in Alaska. Her chapbook This Morning is Different is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in August 2021. Her poems have won the Fairbanks Arts Association and the Anchorage Daily News Adult Poetry Contests, and she has been published by Sky Island Journal, Cirque, Tidal Echoes, and Windfall Journal. Of Tanana Athabascan descent, she is an enrolled member of the Native Village of Minto. Currently she writes, mothers, and hikes in the temperate rainforests of Juneau.