New Poets of Native Nations

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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News from Heid

My next poetry collection, Little Big Bully, will be published by Penguin OCT. 6th, 2020! It’s available for pre-order now at www.birchbarkbooks.com and on Amazon.

This Publishers Weekly article is a highpoint for me in this difficult time. At present, all my in-person events are cancelled through June. I’ll join a few on-line efforts, however, starting with Poetry Asylum at Mia on April 16th.

In November of 2020, I’ll be the Poem-a-Day guest editor for Academy of American Poets.

In 2021 my micro-collection of mixed-genre works Verb Animate will be published by Tinderbox Editions.

Older News from Heid

2019 -2017: I won a National Poetry Series Award for my collection Little Big Bully which 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 was in residency as visiting writer at Vermont Studio Center. Since August, I’ve been in the Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Liberal Arts at University of Minnesota Morris. I had my first exhibit as a featured visual artist in Skew Lines, May 2019, created in a dual residency with Rosy Simas for SooVAC. 2018: New Poets of Native Nations anthology was published. You can read my introduction here. What else has Heid been 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 of my books via Birchbark Books.