Kimberly Blaeser

Kimberly Blaeser, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets and past Wisconsin Poet Laureate, is the author of works in several genres. Her six poetry collections include Ancient Light (University of Arizona Press, 2024), Copper Yearning (Holy Cow! Press, 2019), and Résister en dansant / Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance (Éditions des Lisières, 2020). Blaeser, an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist. Her honors include the Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. Professor emerita at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and MFA faculty member at Institute of American Indian Arts, she is currently at work on a short fiction collection, Red Ants.