About the Author

Adrian C. Louis is from northern Nevada and is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. Louis, who holds an MFA from Brown University, has taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. A former newspaper man and founding member of the Native American Journalists Association, Louis has authored short stories in Wild Indians and Other Creatures, an award-winning novel, Skins, and ten books of poetry, including Among the Dog Eaters and Fire Water World by West End Press. His poetry collection Logorrhea was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.