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  • Contributor Biographies

Scott Andrews is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and teaches American and American Indian literatures at California State University, Northridge. "Removals" is part of a series of poems, some of which have appeared in American Indian Culture and Research Journal. He would like to thank the Native American Literature Symposium at which he read "Removals" and "Columbus Day 2092" at an open mic event. He also would like to thank Gladys Cardiff for her input.

Kristina Fagan is a member of the Labrador Métis Nation and an associate professor of Aboriginal literatures at the University of Saskatchewan. Her current research is on the oral and written narratives of the Labrador Métis. More generally, her research interests include oral storytelling practices, early Aboriginal writings, and issues of theory and methodology in the study of Aboriginal literatures. She is the editor of Henry Pennier's "Call Me Hank": A Sto:lo Man's Reflections on Living, Logging, and Growing Old as well as a forthcoming collection of essays on the intersections of orality and literacy.

John D. Kalb is an associate professor in the English Department at Salisbury University, where he teaches Native American, ethnic American, and contemporary American literatures and directs the MA in English program.

Pat Kennedy teaches English at Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Massachusetts. [End Page 131]

Virginia Kennedy received an MA in English from Montclair State University in 2001. From 2001 to 2005, she was an adjunct professor of writing and literature at the University of Scranton and Marywood University in Pennsylvania. She has also taught Native American women's literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Currently she is working toward a PhD in English with an American Indian studies minor at Cornell University.

Alicia A. Kent is an associate professor of English at the University of Michigan–Flint, specializing in multiethnic literatures. Her book African, Native, and Jewish American Literature and the Reshaping of Modernism was published in 2007.

Pascale Mccullough Manning is a doctoral candidate at the University of Western Ontario, where she is currently researching a dissertation on confessional narrative and autobiography between Darwin and Freud.

Molly Mcglennen is mixed-blood (Anishinaabe, French, Irish), born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She presently is the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American Studies at Vassar College. She received her PhD in Native American studies from University of California, Davis (2005), with her dissertation work on contemporary Native American women's poetry: "It is Evidence of Faith to Create: Spirituality and Native American Women's Poetics." She also holds an MFA in creative writing from Mills College (1998). Most recently her poetry has been published in Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing, edited by MariJo Moore; Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review; Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal; and Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.

Jeffrey P. Shepherd is an assistant professor of American Indian and western history at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Beverly Slapin is cofounder and executive director of Oyate (www.oyate.org) and coeditor of Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children and A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children. A frequent contributor to Debbie Reese's blog, "American Indians in Children's Literature" (http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/), she also wrote the Basic Skills Caucasian Americans [End Page 132] Workbook and an alternative version of a beloved-by-some children's counting rhyme, "10 Little Whitepeople."

Craig S. Womack is author of Drowning in Fire and Red on Red and co-author of Reasoning Together. His next book is called The Song of Roe Nald: Reflections on Aesthetics and is about the relationship between visual and written art. He teaches American Indian literature at Emory University. [End Page 133]

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