Website: www.badndns.blogspot.com

Publications

• Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir , Heyday (January 2013)
• The Zen of La Llorona , Salt (2005)
• Indian Cartography , Greenfield Review Press (1999)

Awards

• Lenfest Sabbatical Fellowship(2012)
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship(2011)
• Nomination for Pushcart Prize for “Cousins (Victor)”(2011)
• Lenfest Sabbatical Fellowship(2007)
• Institute of American Cultures Fellowship, UCLA(2007)
• American Philosophical Society Grant for Native American Research(2006)
• Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Sovereign Erotics(2012)
• Silver Medalist, Independent Publisher’s Award for Sovereign Erotics(2012)
• Pathfinder Award, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers for Sovereign Erotics(2012)
• Finalist, ForeWord “Book of the Year” Reviews for Sovereign Erotics(2012)
• Nomination for Lambda Literary Award (Zen of La Llorona)(2005)
• Invitational Week at Macondo Writer’s Workshop with Sandra Cisneros, San Antonio(2010)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: “Native American Literature and Community” at Evergreen State College(2003)
• Connie Leach Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Achieving a Doctoral Degree; Seattle Indian Services Commission(2001)
• Hedgebrook Invitational Residency, Hedgebrook Cottages for WomenWriters(2000)
• Writer of the Year (Poetry), from the Native Writer’s Circle of the Americas(2000)
• Diane Decorah Memorial First Book Award for Poetry, from the Native Writer’s Circle of the Americas (Indian Cartography)(1997)

Employment

• Full Professor at Washington and Lee University (August 2004 - )
• Assistant Professor at Pacific Lutheran University (September 2001 - June 2004)

Degrees

• Doctoral Degree in English from University of Washington (June 2001)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry