- Contributors
Paula Gunn Allen, emerita professor, University of California, Los Angeles, is a well-known lecturer who has spoken at universities and writing venues in the United States, Europe, and Canada, and is widely published in domestic and international journals and magazines. She has won a number of awards for writing and scholarship, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Native American Prize for Literature, an American Book Award-Before Columbus Foundation and most recently, the Native Writers Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award.
Esther G. Belin is a Navajo writer raised in Los Angeles, California. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She lives in Durango, Colorado, about two hours from her homeland. Her first book, From the Belly of My Beauty: Poems (University of Arizona Press) won the American Book Award in 2000.
Gloria Bird (Spokane) is the author of Full Moon on the Reservation (1993) and The River of History (1997), for which she won the Diane Decorah First Book Award. She coedited Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America (1997) with Joy Harjo. She is an associate editor for the Wicazo Sa Review in which some of her critical work has appeared. Ms. Bird serves on the board of Wakiknabe Theater Company of Albuquerque, New Mexico. She lives and works on the Spokane Indian reservation in Washington state.
Mary Black Bonnet is a full-blooded member of the Sicangu Lakota tribe from the Rosebud Reservation. She is enrolled at the University of South Dakota at Vermillion. Upon graduation, she hopes to teach writing at universities and schools on reservations. Her work has been published in Nagi-Ho Journal. [End Page 163]
Kathryn Cooper is an author and bead-weaving artist. Her work has been published in Feeding the Ancient Fires, A Collection of Writings by North Carolina American Indians; Raleigh News and Observer: Short Story Publication Selection; New Life Journal; Greensboro News and Record; and News From Indian Country. She has received two awards for her work with indigenous women at the North Carolina Correctional Institute for Women at Raleigh. She has also received an award for "Outstanding Contribution and Commitment to Building Community from Diversity" from Lenior-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina.
Alice Rose Crow Maar'aq (Yup'ik) resides in Kotzebue, Alaska. She was born and raised in Bethel, on the Kuskokwim River in Southwest Alaska. After first attending the former Kuskokwim Community College, Alice earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Alaska. In 1999 eleven of her poems were published in Standards, the University of Colorado's International Journal for Multicultural Studies.
Della Frank has been writing for sixteen years. She is currently the Principal of Naschitti Elementary School on the Navajo Reservation. She has three children and eight grandchildren.
Diane Glancy is an associate professor of English at Macalester College in St. Paul where she teaches Native American Literature and Creative Writing. Her new novels include The Man Who Heard the Land (Minnesota Historical Society Press), The Mask Maker (University of Oklahoma Press), and Designs of the Night Sky (University of Nebraska Press). Her recent book of poems, The Relief of America, was published by Tia Chucha. Glancy is of Cherokee and German/English heritage. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, an American Book Award, and a Native American Prose Award. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.
Terry Gomez is from the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma. She is an artist, writer, and actor, and is a graduate of the Institute of the American Indian Arts at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has been published in the anthologies Contemporary Plays by Women of Color, Home is in the Blood, and Gathering Our Own, and in Aboriginal Voices magazine. Gomez's work has received staged readings at The Public Theater, The Dramatists Guild, and the Mutt Repertory in New York City and in Santa Fe. She lives in Santa Fe with her family.
Janice Gould is mixed-blood...