KIMBERLY BLAESER

Kimberly Blaeser

Kimberly Blaeser, of Anishinaabe and German ancestry, is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and grew up on White Earth Reservation in Northwestern Minnesota. She is an Associate Professor of English at UWM, where she teaches twentieth-century American literature, specializing in Native American Literature and American Nature Writing. Her work, which includes poetry, essays, short fiction, journalism, scholarly articles, and critical introductions to the works of others, has appeared in numerous Canadian and American journals, anthologies, and publications including, New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism (1993), As We Are Now, Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity (1997), Other Sisterhoods, Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color (1998), and introductions to Diane Glancy's War Cries and M. Inez Hilger's Chippewa Families, A Social Study of White Earth Reservation, 1938 (1998). She is the author of Trailing You (1994), a collection of poems that won the 1993 Diane Decorah First Book Award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas, and Gerald Vizenor, Writing in the Oral Tradition (1996), a critical study of a fellow White Earth author Gerald Vizenor, one of the most prolific Native American writers of this century. Her book Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose was published by Loonfeather Press in 1999. Professor Blaeser currently lives on six and a half acres of woods and wetlands in rural Lyons township, Wisconsin.

	Kimberly M. Blaeser. Trailing You. Greenfield Center, N.Y.: Greenfield Press, 1994. Call Number: (UWM) PS 3552 .L3438 T73 1994 Awarded the 1993 Diane Decorah First Book Award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas. Special Collections, Golda Meir Library Read a Poem from Trailing You

	Kimberly M. Blaeser. Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Call Number: (UWM) PS 3572 .I9 Z56 1996 Special Collections, Golda Meir Library Read a Portion of the Introduction from Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition

	William S. Penn. As We Are Now, Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Call Number: (SPL) E 99 .M693 A7 1997 c.2 Includes Kimberly Blaeser's essay "On Mapping and Urban Shamans." Special Collections, Golda Meir Library Read a Portion of Kimberly Blaeser's Essay "On Mapping and Urban Shamans"

	M. Inez Hilger. Chippewa Families: A Social Study of White Earth Reservation, 1938. With a new introduction by Brenda J. Child and Kimberly Blaeser. St. Paul, Minn.: Historical Society Press, 1998. Call Number: (SPL) E 99 .C6 H464 1998 c.2 This is a reprint of Hilger's 1939 research study, with a critical introduction by Kimberly Blaeser. Special Collections, Golda Meir Library Read a Portion of Kimberly Blaesers's Introduction to Chippewa Families

	Sandra Kumamoto Stanley (ed.). Other Sisterhoods: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois, 1998. Call Number: PS 153 .M56 O85 1998 Includes Kimberly Blaeser's essay "Like 'Reeds through the Ribs of a Basket': Native Women Weaving Stories." General Collections, Golda Meir Library Read a Portion of Kimberly Blaeser's Essay "Like 'Reeds through the Ribs of a Basket': Native Women Weaving Stories."

	Kimberly Blaeser (ed.). Stories Migrating Home. Bemijda, Minn.: Loonfeather Press, 1999. Call Number: (SPL) E 99 .C6 S75x 1999 Includes Kimberly Blaeser's introduction "Gathering of Stories," and her short story "Fancy Dog Contest." Special Collections, Golda Meir Library Read a Portion of Kimberly Blaeser's Short Story "Fancy Dog Contest"

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