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Kimberly Blaeser is a Professor at University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee where she teaches Creative Writing, Native American Literature, and American Nature Writing. Her publications include two books of poetry Trailing You, winner of the first book award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, and Absentee Indians and Other Poems, as well as a scholarly study, Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition. Of Anishinaabe ancestry and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe who grew up on the White Earth Reservation, Blaeser is also the editor of Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry. Her most recent critical publication is a 100-page essay on Native poetry, “Cannons and Canonization,” in The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States. Kim lives with her husband and two young children in the woods and wetlands of rural Lyons township Wisconsin. Blaeser’s poetry, short fiction, personal essays, and scholarly articles have been widely anthologized in American and International collections such as: Reinventing the Enemy’s Language; Sister Nations; Eating Fire, Tasting Blood; Narrative Chance; The Colour of Resistance; This Giving Birth; Dreaming History; Sweeping Beauty; Here First; As We Are Now; Returning the Gift; Talking on the Page; Other Sisterhoods; Unsettling America; Skins; Earth Song, Sky Spirit; Nothing But the Truth; After Confession; Harvest International, Imaginary (Re-) Locations, Women on Hunting; and Blue Dawn, Red Earth. Blaeser has and been the recipient of awards for both writing and speaking among these a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship in Poetry and a Writer of the Year Award from Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers. One of her poems was selected for installation in the Midwest Express Building in Milwaukee, one of her talks chosen by Writers’ Conferences and Festivals for inclusion in the organization’s anthology of best lectures, and she was chosen to inaugurate the Western Canada Lecture Series. She is a past vice president of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, and currently serves on the advisory board for the Sequoyah Research Center, and on two American Indian Literature series boards for University presses. She is currently at work on a mixed-genre collection, Tinctures of a Family Tree.
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