Cedar Sigo

Cedar Sigo is a Suquamish American writer of art, literature and film. He’s the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Royals, a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. One reviewer called Sigo “a Frank O’Hara for the 21st century: witty, erudite, serious, with a terrific ear & eye for the minutest details, at home in the world of the arts.” In All This Time, his newest collection, Sigo writes haunting, lyrical poems in conversation with other poets, as well as artists and musicians, paying homage to his artistic influences. Sigo grew up on the Suquamish reservation near Seattle, Washington. He won a scholarship to attend The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, where he studied with poets Allen Ginsberg and Alice Notley, among others. Currently Sigo is a mentor in the low residency MFA program at The Institute of American Indian Arts, and he lives in Lofall, Washington.