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
CURRENT PROJECTS
Director, Wiigwaas Press, an indigenous language publisher, 2010-present
Director, Artifact Traffic, a collaborative, multidisciplinary performance and art exhibit, 2012-
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems, University of Arizona Press, forthcoming, 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
Sister Nations: Native Women Writing on Community, (anthology) Minnesota Historical Society, 2002
DRAMATIC WORKS
Curiosities: A Play in Two Centuries, workshop 2005, full production, Pangea World Theater, Nov. 2010
COLLABORATIONS
Creative Consultant, Zorango Dance Theater, Zorro, Cowles Center, 2011-2012
Creative Consultant to Sally Rousse, Paramount to My Footage, Southern Theater, 2010
Mentor and lyricist, Habitat for Humanity/Minnesota Choral: Sing Me a Home, 2007
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CURATORIAL
Dyani White Hawk, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN March-April, 2012
Waabange/Witness, McKnight Foundation Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, April-June, 2011
Frank Big Bear Paintings: from the Rez to the Hood to the Lake, January-March, 2011
Original Green, Mill City Museum, May-November, 2010
Hokah! Ten Years of Art, (co-curated) Ancient Traders Gallery, December 2009-February 2010
States, Dates and Place, Ancient Traders Gallery, December 2008-February 2009
Two Wings, Ancient Traders Gallery, October-November 2008
RE: Generations, Legacy and Tradition, Ancient Traders Gallery, December 2008-January 2010
Carl Gawboy: Fifty Years Standing, Ancient Traders Gallery, June-September 2007
PAPERS, PANELS & PRESENTATIONS
“Midwest Cities: Contemporary Ecopoetics,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) annual conference, March 2012
“Most Peculiar: Staging Curiosities as Collaboration,” Native American Literature Symposium, March 2011
“Native American Artists & Authors,” presentation, Minnesota History Center, January 27, 2010
“Metaphor and American Indian Learners,” Science Museum of Minnesota, July 6, 2009
“Native American Literature in Minnesota,” workshop, Minnesota Humanities Center, June 11-12, 2009
“Marginal Illustrations: Teaching Comics/Graphics in Native American Literature” MLA, 2007
TEACHING HISTORY
Minnesota State University Mankato, Humanities, Visiting Professor, 2012
Split Rock, University of Minnesota Continuing Studies, 2011
University of St. Thomas, Department of English, Assistant Professor, 1995-2007 (tenured 2001)
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VISITING WRITER & SCHOLAR
Leech Lake Tribal College, Walker, MN, April 2012
University of Arizona Tucson, indigenous librarian program, March 2012
Turtle Mountain Writers Workshop, Belcourt, North Dakota, 2002-2007, 2009, 2011
Minnesota Humanities Center, St. Paul, MN, 2009, 2010, 2011
SUNY Oneonta, Red Dragon Series Visiting Authors, March, 2011
Open Book Writer-in-Residence for Little Earth American Indian Community, 2010
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, November 2010
University of Wisconsin, River Falls, September 2010
Project Scholar: American Libraries Association, Picturing America: American Indian Art, 2010
The Loft Literary Center, Mentor and Teaching Artists, 2006-2009
ACTC Writer-in-Residence, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Nov. 2009
Institute of American Indian Art, Lannan Literary Residency, Santa Fe, NM, April 2009
Robert C. Wright Minnesota Writer Residency MSU Mankato, MN, Nov. 2008
Writer-in-Residence, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, April 2008
Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, November 2009
READINGS & PERFORMANCES
Zandbroz Books, Fargo, ND, May 2012
University of Minnesota, Andersen Library Pankake Series, May 2012
Tucson Festival of the Book, Tucson, AZ, March 2012
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, November 2011
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, September, 2011
Franconia Sculpture Park, Schafer, MN, September, 2011
Bemidji Book Festival, featured author, June 2011
Native American Literature Symposium, keynote, March 2011
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, group reading of Ojibwe authors, November, 2010
American Libraries Association, featured author, Washington D.C., June 2010
Minnesota Humanities Center, featured author, St. Paul, MN February 2010
UMN Library Association, featured author, University of Minnesota, Morris, MN, November 2009
Kenyon Review Literary Festival, featured w/Gordon Henry and Kim Blaeser, Gambier OH, November 2009
Augsburg College Bookstore Series, featured author, Minneapolis, November 2009
Friends of the Library, featured author, Arlington Hills Branch, October 2009
Hamline University, Water-Stone contributor’s reading, October 2009
Park College/Kansas City Public Library, featured author, Kansas City, MO, September 30, 2009
Haskell Research Center, featured author, Lawrence, Kansas, September 29, 2009
Gustavus College, featured author, St. Peter, MN May 2009
Lannan Literary Series, featured with Eric Gansworth, Santa Fe, NM, April 2009
HONORS & AWARDS
Honored: Changemaker, Intermedia Arts, 2011
Honored: Nomination for Pushcart Prize, 2011
Awarded: State Arts Board Artist Initiative, 2004, 2008, 2012
Awarded: Blacklock Fellowship & Residency, 2010
Awarded: Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, 2009
Awarded: Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Fellowship, 2004
Awarded: Mentor of the Year, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, 2004
Awarded: Bush Leadership Fellowship, 2001-2003
Awarded: Research grant, Minnesota Historical Society, 2001
Awarded: The Loft Literary Center, Career Initiative, 2000-2001