Tommy Cheis is a Chiricahua Apache guide, medicine leader, and Cochise descendant. After traveling extensively through distant lands and meeting interesting people, he lives with his horses in the Cochise Stronghold of Arizona. His stories (will) appear in Another Chicago Magazine, Indiana Review, Puerto del Sol, Nonbinary Review, New Limestone Review, Collateral, ZiN Daily, After Dinner Conversation, and more than thirty-five other publications. A 2x Pushcart nominee, his work appears on the CLMP Reading List for Native American Month November 2024. His story is a modified excerpt from his novel, CHILD OF WATER, represented by Jake Lovell of the Sandra Dijkstra Agency
