Naima Yael Tokunow (she/her) is a communications professional, educator, writer, artist, and editor. Her work (and life) explores Black femme identity, kinship, and futurity. She is the author of three chapbooks, MAKE WITNESS (Zoo Cake Press, 2016), Planetary Bodies (Black Warrior Review, 2019), and Shadow Black, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown for the Frontier Digital Chapbook Prize in 2020.

She lives in unneeded Tiwa land (also known as Albuquerque) with her husband and children. She is blessed to be Black and alive.