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Studies in American Indian Literatures 17.1 (2005) 125-129



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Contributor Biographies

Scott Andrews (Cherokee) is an assistant professor at California State University, Northridge, teaching American Indian literature and American literature (including literature of the Vietnam War). He has written for SAIL about autobiographies of American Indian veterans of the Vietnam War, and he has three poems set for publication this year in American Indian Culture and Research Journal.
Ellen L. Arnold is an assistant professor at East Carolina University, where she teaches Native American literature, women's literature, and ethnic studies. She has published Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko (University Press of Mississippi, 2000), essays on Silko, Linda Hogan, and Carter Revard, and is currently editing an essay collection on Carter Revard's poetry.
Esther G. Belin is a writer who was raised in Lynwood, California. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2000 she won the American Book Award for her first book of poetry, From the Belly of My Beauty, published by the University of Arizona Press in the fall of 1999. She has just finished her second book, Home is Where the Flavor Is. Belin was one of the cofounders for the Women of Color Film and Video Collective. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley, she produced five videos. Her first published work appeared in Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media [End Page 125] Arts. Other published works appear in these anthologies: Neon Pow Wow, Song of the Turtle, Speaking for the Generations, Native American Voices, American Indian Urban Experience, Pride of Place, The Iowa Review, and Sister Nations. A second-generation, off-reservation Navajo (Diné), she currently lives in Durango, Colorado, about two hours from her homeland.
Jeff Berglund is an assistant professor of English at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. He is the author of the forthcoming Cannibal Fictions and coeditor of the forthcoming Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Perspectives.
Shirley Brozzo, an Anishnaabe from the Keweenaw Bay Tribe of Chippewa Indians, was born in Ironwood, Michigan, then moved to Marquette in 1989. In 1992 she earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and in 1994 she earned a master of arts in English, both at Northern Michigan University. She actively participated with the advisory board as a student representative before she was hired as an adjunct instructor for the Center for Native American Studies in 1995. In addition to teaching the "Native American Experience" class, she also created a class, "Storytelling by Native American Women." Besides working for CNAS, she is the coordinator for the Gateway Academic Program, a retention program for Diversity Student Services. Her stories and poems are published in over twenty-Wve sources. She has three adult children, Jamie, Brandi, and Steven, and her hobbies include working puzzles, reading, and crocheting.
Bud Hirsch is associate professor of English and coordinator of undergraduate studies at the University of Kansas. He has published articles and reviews on contemporary American Indian literature and British Romantic poetry, was head writer on two documentary films on the Kansas Kickapoo and Potawatomi and one on the off-reservation boarding school, and has coedited four textbooks. His forthcoming article on Thomas King will appear in the Summer 2004 issue of Western American Literature. [End Page 126]
Loretto L. Jones, of Cherokee descent, has finally returned home to Fairbanks, Alaska, where she is enrolled in a master of fine arts program. She lives in a dry log cabin surrounded by elk, birch, and aspen. She has been a meteorological technician, a commercial diver, captain of an Alaskan fishing boat, a grant writer, and executive director of a nonprofit organization. Her status as mother is ongoing. Her poetry and photographs have appeared in various venues. "Taku" is her first published short story.
Frances W. Kaye teaches Great Plains studies, Canadian studies, and Native American studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and sometimes at the University of Calgary. Her essay "Just What Is Cultural Appropriation, Anyway?" appears in The Black Elk Reader (2000). Although her...

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