Rebecca Nagle
Official Panelist
2025 Participant · Non-Fiction · Native American

Rebecca Nagle
Rebecca is an award winning journalist and citizen of Cherokee Nation. She is the author of By The Fire We Carry: The Generation-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land and the writer and host of the podcast This Land. Her writing on Native representation, federal Indian law, and tribal sovereignty has been featured in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, and more. Rebecca Nagle is the recipient of the Lukas Book Prize, the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, a Peabody Nominee, and the Women's Media Center's Exceptional Journalism Award. Nagle lives in Tahlequah, OK.
Book Title(s)
- By The Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land