Kimberly Blaeser (Anishinaabe), an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, teaches Native American Literature, Creative Writing, and American Nature Writing. Blaeser is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and grew up on the White Earth Reservation. Her publications include two collections of poetry, Trailing You, which won the 1993 First Book Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas and Absentee Indians and Other Poems (2002).

She is the author of a critical study, Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition (1996) and the editor of two anthologies: Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose  (1999) and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry  (2004). Blaeser’s poetry, short fiction, essays, and scholarly articles have been widely published in Canadian and American collections such as Earth Song, Sky Spirit, Reinventing the Enemy’s Language, Narrative Chance, Women on Hunting, The Colour of Resistance, This Giving Birth, Dreaming History, As We Are Now, Returning the Gift, Talking on the Page, Other Sisterhoods, Unsettling America, Skins, Sister Nations, Nothing But the Truth, After Confession, and Blue Dawn, Red Earth.  A recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship in Poetry and the winner of a Writer of the Year Award from Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers in 2003 for a personal essay, Blaeser is currently at work on a creative collage, Family Tree. She lives with her husband and two young children in the woods and wetlands of rural Lyons township, Wisconsin.