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Louis Esme Cruz (Mikmaq/Acadian and Irish) is a multidisciplinary artist/writer and a recent fine arts undergraduate of Emily Carr University, Coast Salish Territories, Vancouver. His visual and/or written work can be seen in the Scars Tell Stories zine, Redwire Magazine, Projet Mobilivre/Bookmobile Project, and in the self-published zine Nannygoat Trannygoat. In 2008, he was guest art director for the Redwire Magazine Prison/Justice Issue. In 2005, he co-organized Dirty Gender Secrets: A Multi-media Art Event, and in 2004, he co-organized TwoSpirit People: A (Re)Weaving. In his spare time, he likes to dream himself into the future. Sarah Dowling is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation research focuses on contemporary multilingual poetry. She holds an MA in creative writing from Temple University, and her first book of poems, Security Posture, was published in 2009 by Snare Books in Montreal. Qwo-Li Driskill is a (noncitizen) Cherokee Two-Spirit/Queer/Asegi writer, activist, and educator. S/he is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Texas A&M University. S/he is the author of Walking with Ghosts: Poems and holds a PhD in rhetoric and writing from Michigan State University. Hir research focuses on performance historiography, Cherokee Two-Spirit/GLBTQ people, and Cherokee performance rhetorics as resistance. Janice Gould (Concow) is an assistant professor in the Department of Womens and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Her tribal affiliation is Concow. She is author of two poetry collections, Earthquake Weather (1996) and Beneath My Heart (1990), and has also published a chapbook/artbook, titled Alphabet (1996). Her scholarly publications include Speak to Me Words: Essays on American Indian Poetry (coedited with Dean Rader, 2003). Sharon P. Holland is associate professor of English, African and African American studies, and womens studies at Duke University. She is author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (2000), which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA) in 2002. She is also coauthor of a collection of transatlantic Afro-Native criticism with Tiya Miles titled Crossing Waters/Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian

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Country (2006). Holland was also instrumental in the republication of Lila Karps novel The Queen Is in the Garbage (2007), one of the first second-wave feminist novels. Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation) is associate professor of Aboriginal literatures in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and author of Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History (2006) and the queer indigenous fantasy trilogy, The Way of Thorn and Thunder (2005 7). His current work includes a cultural history of badgers and a critical essay collection tentatively titled In Search of the Last Cherokee Princess: Literature, Belonging, Desire. Deborah A. Miranda is associate professor of English at Washington and Lee University and teaches creative writing (poetry and memoir), composition, and a variety of literatures concerned with race, gender, and ethnicity. She is author of two poetry collections, Indian Cartography (1999), which won the Diane Decorah Award for First Book from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, and The Zen of La Llorona (2004), nominated for the Lambda Literary Award. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of California and is of Chumash ancestry as well. She is finishing Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, a collection of stories, poems, mission documents, her Esselen grandfathers taperecorded histories, government records, newspaper articles, and her own experiences as a mixed-blood California Indian woman in the twenty-first century, as well as a book of poems titled Written on the Bark of Trees: Praise Poems. Scott Lauria Morgensen is assistant professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Queens University, where he teaches critical race studies, indigenous studies, queer studies, and feminist methods. Mark Rifkin is an assistant professor in the English department of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he teaches Native American literature and queer studies. He is the author of Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space (2009) and is completing his second book, When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty. Erin Runions is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Pomona College, with a specialization in Hebrew bible and cultural studies. Her work brings together politics, culture, and the reading of biblical text, a task that she theorizes most extensively in her books Changing Subjects: Gender, Nation,

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Future in Micah (2001) and How Hysterical: Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film (2003). She has also published journal articles in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Postscripts, Biblical Interpretation, Bible and Critical Theory, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, and Scholar and Feminist Online. Bethany Schneider is associate professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. Her essays have appeared in such journals as ELH: English Literary History, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, and South Atlantic Quarterly. Her book project is titled From Place to Populace: Indian Removal and State Formation in American Literature, 1820 1898. Andrea Smith teaches in media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (2008) and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (2005). She is also a cofounder of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. James Thomas Stevens is instructor of creative writing and literature at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. He is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk tribe in upstate New York. He is the author of seven books of poetry, including Tokinish (1994), Combing the Snakes from His Hair (2002), Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations, a collaborative book of poems with Samoan poet Caroline Sinavaiana (2006), and A Bridge Dead in the Water (2007). Stevens is a 2000 Whiting Writers Award winner and a 2005 finalist for the National Poetry Series Award. Lisa Tatonetti is an assistant professor of English and American ethnic studies at Kansas State University, where she teaches American Indian literatures, multiethnic U.S. literatures, and queer studies. Her research focuses on contemporary Two-Spirit literature, and she is editing a collection of Two-Spirit literature with Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, and Deborah Miranda. Craig Womack (Muscogee Creek) teaches in the English Department at Emory University and is author of Art as Performance, Story as Criticism: Reflections on Native Literary Aesthetics (2009).