Jake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Water's Edge. He is Dine from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. He holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Skeets is a winner of the 2018 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Skeets edits an online publication called Cloudthroat and organizes a poetry salon and reading series called Pollentongue, based in the Southwest. He is a member of Saad Bee Hozhǫ́ A Dine Writers' Collective and currently teaches at Dine College in Tsaile, Arizona.
