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Author and filmmaker Brian Lee Young is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. He grew up on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. Brian earned his BA in film studies at Yale University and his MFA in creative writing at Columbia University. His debut middle grade novels, Healer of the Water Monster and Heroes of the Water Monster, were American Indian Youth Literature Award winner and honor books respectively. Brian currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.


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