Esther Belin is a poet and artist from the Navajo Nation (Diné). Her single-volume poetry book From the Belly of My Beauty was published in1999àand wonàthe American Book Award. Recently, she co-editedThe Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature that was published in 2021 and on the Lists of Best Books, 2010-2023 of the American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL).
Belin received title of the inaugural poet laureate of Durango, Colorado (2024âÂÂ2026) as well as the 2025 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.
Belin attended the following institutions for higher education degrees: the University of California, Berkeley, the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Antioch University.