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Heid E. Erdrich
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female |
| place of birth |
The United States |
| website |
http://www.heiderdrich.com |
| genre |
Poetry, Nonfiction, Women & Gender Studies
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| influences |
[a:Roberta Hill Whiteman|263375|Roberta Hill Whiteman|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg], [a:Joy Harjo|267|Joy Harjo|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1253146717p2/267.jpg], [a:Louise Gluck|388727|Louise Glück|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1245256361p2/388727.jpg], [a:Elizabeth Bishop|41588|Elizabeth Bishop|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1238267192p2/41588.jpg], Sylvia and Anne, [a:Joni Mitchell|58057|Joni Mitchell|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207837788p2/58057.jp |
about this author
Heid E. Erdrich writes and publishes poetry and non-fiction. Her next book of poems will be Cell Traffic, a new and selected from University of Arizona Press due out in early 2012. Her most recent book of poems, National Monuments from Michigan State University Press, won the 2009 Minnesota Book Award. Heid Erdrich teaches writing workshops, often as a guest at various colleges and universities. Each year she leads the Turtle Mountain Writers Workshop on her home reservation in North Dakota.
For five years Heid E. Erdrich curated exhibits for All My Relations Arts, an American Indian art gallery in Minneapolis. Now an independent visual arts curator, her most recent exhibit was for the McKnight Foundation.
Founder of Wiigwaas Press, along with her sister Louise Erdrich and poet James Cihlar, she continues to publish Ojibwe language books in an effort to assist in indigenous language revitalization work.
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