Tiffany Desiree

Tiffany Desiree is a Seattle-based Indigenous author and member of the boutique publishing company LWW Literary Press. Her writing spans children’s and young adult literature, poetry, spiritual fiction, cultural history, and literary nonfiction.

Desiree’s background encompasses Muscogee, Keetoowah, Lumbee, and Waccamaw-Siouan ancestral lines. Tied heavily to her family's maternal roots, she carries forward the Luksi Okla (Turtle People) Clan legacy inherited from her great-grandfather Oka Banatha, a Chahta (Choctaw) ancestor whose lineage traces back to the Oklahannali (Six Towns) District. As part of a non-reservation NDN family, she learned her culture through lived experience, faith, and traditional naming practices rather than bureaucratic structures—instilling in her a fierce dedication to her roots.

Desiree's family history and non-reservation Indigenous traditions are woven throughout her creative work, particularly through foodways, language, storytelling, ancestral memory, and family knowledge. Her books explore the enduring connections between identity, history, spirituality, culture, and the generations that came before us.

Her diverse catalog includes Nature, Sex, and Culture: A Tree of Discombobulated Thoughts, How the Indian Beat the Black Out of Me, My Private Canon: Forged in Malice, Chanted in Isolation to the Christ of Thorns, An African Spiritual Horror Collection, and the Fruity Land children's series.

From children's stories to spiritually charged literary works, Desiree writes with an independent spirit and a fascination with the places where history, imagination, ancestry, and personal experience meet.