Welcome! / Heid E. Erdrich

Heid E. Erdrich is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media from Michigan State University Press. Her recent non-fiction work is Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes. She is editor of two anthologies of literature by Native writers including the forthcoming NEW POETS OF NATIVE NATIONS form Graywolf Press. Heid’s writing has won numerous awards as have her collaborative poem films, which you can see on her Vimeo channel. Heid grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. She teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing program of Augsburg College.

(author photo & other bios –see above)

UPCOMING EVENTS–see calendar for details.

News from Heid:

2018: AMAZED, pleased and honored to be named a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Fellow in Literature. After 4 years editing New Poets of Native Nations an anthology of poetry by extraordinary Native writers who have published first books since the year 2000, I am looking froward to official pub date of July 10, 2018. From Graywolf Press. Could I be more thrilled? No. Look at that lovely cover image by Sherwin Bitsui!

Recent poetry published on-line by The Rumpus – Academy of American Poets – ORION (also in print with beautiful photos, a feature on Standing Rock and women with Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Solider, Joy Harjo, Jennifer Foerster, Louise Erdrich and more )

2017 News:

My poetry book Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media is available from Michigan State University Press. You can buy signed copies via Birchbark Books. The book contains the fantastic artwork of Andrea Carlson, and QR Codes that link to poem films, including a few new ones in collaboration with Jonathan Thunder. Here are a couple poems from the collection along with images:

TWO EKPHRASTIC POEMS BY HEID E. ERDRICH — on artwork by Andrea Carlson and Jim Denomie who graciously shared their images.