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, 1995-2006 (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

All My Relations Arts, 2007-present

Mentorship

Loft Mentor Program, 2007-2008
Word Craft Circle of Native Writers: mentor 2001-2006

Publications Authored

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

Yellow Medicine Review: Journal of Indigenous Thought. SW State University, Minnesota. Winter 2007
Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community (co-editor) MN Historical Society Press, 2002

Readings (recent partial listing)

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
Three Rivers Arts Council, Wahpeton, ND, April 2008
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, March 2008