Heid E. Erdrich is the author of seven collections of poetry, a non-fiction Indigenous foods memoir, and she’s editor of two anthologies. Heid grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain.
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New News from Heid:
2019: I won a National Poetry Series Award! Little Big Bully will be published by Penguin in fall of 2020. ALSO: New Poets of Native Nations won an American Book Award – go Native poets! In early 2020, I’ll be the in residency and meeting with selected poets at Vermont Studio Center and not long after my micro-collection of mixed-genre works Verb Animate will be published by Tinderbox Editions. From mid-August into December, I’ll hold the Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Liberal Arts at University of Minnesota Morris. My first exhibit as a featured visual artist was Skew Lines, May 2019, created in a dual residency with Rosy Simas for SooVAC.
Older News from Heid:
2018 & 2017: Publication of New Poets of Native Nations an anthologyI edited presenting poetry by extraordinary Native writers who have published first books since the year 2000. You can read my introduction here. What else is Heid up to? Lit Hub finds out in this interview.2017-2018 poetry published on-line by The Rumpus – Academy of American Poets – ORION . My poetry book Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media came out from Michigan State University Press. You can buy signed copies via Birchbark Books.
Books by Heid E. Erdrich
Fishing for Myth
Sister Nations
The Mother’s Tongue
National Monuments
Cell Traffic
Original Local
Curator of Ephemera
