Kimberly Blaeser

Kimberly Blaeser, of Anishinaabe and German ancestry, is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and grew up on White Earth Reservation in Northwestern Minnesota. She is an Associate Professor of English at UWM, where she teaches twentieth-century American literature, specializing in Native American Literature and American Nature Writing. Her work, which includes poetry, essays, short fiction, journalism, scholarly articles, and critical introductions to the works of others, has appeared in numerous Canadian and American journals, anthologies, and publications including, New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism (1993), As We Are Now, Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity (1997), Other Sisterhoods, Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color (1998), and introductions to Diane Glancy's War Cries and M. Inez Hilger's Chippewa Families, A Social Study of White Earth Reservation, 1938 (1998). She is the author of Trailing You (1994), a collection of poems that won the 1993 Diane Decorah First Book Award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas, and Gerald Vizenor, Writing in the Oral Tradition (1996), a critical study of a fellow White Earth author Gerald Vizenor, one of the most prolific Native American writers of this century. Her book Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose was published by Loonfeather Press in 1999. Professor Blaeser currently lives on six and a half acres of woods and wetlands in rural Lyons township, Wisconsin.