Heid E. Erdrich is author of four poetry collections including Cell Traffic and National Monuments, which won the Minnesota Book Award. Her collaborative poem films have been screened at festivals in the US and Canada. She recently began teaching in the low-residency MFA program at Augsburg College.

Gerard Vizenor is professor emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than thirty books about Native American literature, art, and history. Vizenor is a citizen of the White Earth Nation in Minnesota. Blue Ravens is his most recent novel.

Kimberly Blaeser is the author of three books of poetry including Apprenticed to Justice and Absentee Indians. A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she teaches creative writing and Native American literature. Her writing has been widely anthologized, most recently in The Heath Anthology of American Lit.

Gordon Henry is professor at Michigan State University in English and creative writing, senior editor of the American Indian Studies Series (Michigan State University Press), and a novelist, poet, and American Indian Literature scholar. He is an enrolled member of the White Earth Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota.

Margaret Noodin is a poet and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin‹Milwaukee. She is the author of Bawaajimo, a book on native literature and Weweni, a collection of bilingual poems in Ojibwe and English. Her poems and essays have been anthologized in numerous journals and collections.