Curriculum Vitae
(Full CV available upon request. Contact Heid.)
Education
MA Fiction, The Johns Hopkins University, 1990
MA Poetry, The Johns Hopkins University, 1989
BA Literature and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College, 1986
Teaching
University of St. Thomas, Department of English, Assistant Professor, 1995-2007 (tenured 2001)
College of St. Catherine, Department of English, Adjunct, 1993-1995
Augsburg College, English and American Indian Studies, Adjunct, 1993-1995
The Johns Hopkins University, Writing Seminars, Fellow and Lecturer, 1988-1992
Curatorial
Independent Curator, 2002-present
All My Relations Arts, 2007-2011
Mentorship
Loft Mentor Program, 2007-2008
Word Craft Circle of Native Writers: mentor 2001-2006
Publications Authored
Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems, forthcoming in 2012
National Monuments, (poetry collection) Michigan State University Press, 2008
The Mother’s Tongue, (poetry collection) Salt Publishing, UK, 2005
Fishing for Myth, (poetry collection) New Rivers Press, Minneapolis, MN, April 1997
Publications Edited
Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community (co-editor) MN Historical Society Press, 2002
Readings & Talks (recent partial listing)
Bemidji Book Festival, Bemidji, MN, June 2011
Galaxie Library, Dakota County, May 2011
Greater Twin Cities Poetry Read, April 2011
Gustavas-Adolphis Friends of the Library, April 2011
Red Dragon Series, SUNY Oneonta, NY, March 2011
Loft/Open Book, American Indian Family Days, Minneapolis, Dec. 2010
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, Cloquet, MN, Nov. 2010
Southwest State University, Marshall, MN, Oct. 2010
University of Wisconsin, River Falls, WI, Oct. 2010
Minnesota Humanities Center, St. Paul, MN, Jan. 2010
American Libraries Association National Conference, Washington, DC, June 2010
Kenyon Review Festival, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, Nov. 2009
ACTC Writer-in-Residence, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Nov. 2009
Park College, Kansas City, MO, October, 2009
Lannan Literary Residency, Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM, April, 2009
Dartmouth College, Native American Law and Literature, Jan. 2009
Hamline University, Poetry and the Sacred, Feb. 2009
Good Thunder Reading Series, Mankato, MN, November 2008
Bismarck State College Library, Bismarck, ND, November 2008
Hennepin County Library, Richfield, MN, October 2008
Michigan Writers Series, East Lansing MI, April 2008
Visiting Writers Series, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, April 2008
Mentor Series, The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, April 2008