First Pages Prize - Fiction 2024 Long List
In "Ten Thousand Moons Could Never Be Enough" our local Navajo nomad searches the dead-infested southwest for her missing wife. With only the knowledge of her homelands and a machete to protect her, Rochelle learns the difference between blood relatives and found family, and finding the will to live.
“What met Cradle’s eyes horrified with its callousness. Body after body of starving and hurt beings. The Fourth World was unrecognizable. Cradle wept and whispered, I will bring the Fifth World. “
Bio: Brenna is Diné, Hočak, and Standing Rock Lakota from Arizona and Wisconsin. They are an award winning writer with publications in Saving Earth Magazine, the Timberline Review, and more forthcoming. Brenna lives in Oregon with her partner and their cat, Gizmo.