Ibe Liebenberg

Ibe Liebenberg is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He lives in Paradise, California and works as a firefighter, and a lecturer at Chico State University. He is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in both poetry and fiction. He has been published in POETRY Magazine, The ThreePenny Review, Ecotone, North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Rattle, American Journal of Poetry, and IOWA Review. Finalist of the James Welch Poetry contest. Winner of the Tribal College Journals Creative writing contest in both fiction and poetry. Winner of the Sowell Emerging Writers Prize for his poetry collection Birds at Night. Winner of 2024 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. Finalist for the Poetry Northwest James Welch Poetry prize in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Writing by Writers 2025 Hemingway House Residency winner. 2025 IN-NA-PO (Indigenous Nations Poets) fellow. And 2024 Tin House summer workshop participant.