Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-09, is a founding member of Indigenous Nations Poets. She is author of House of Grace, House of Blood, archive-based, intertextual verse from the University of Arizona Press. Other recent publications are a memoir, The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival (U. of Nebraska Press), a Hefner Heitz Award finalist; Jigsaw Puzzling: Essays (Meadowlark, Coffin Award); Wing (Red Mountain); Casino Bestiary (Spartan); Shadow Light, Red Mountain Press Award; and Jackalope (Red Mountain, fiction). She is co-author of Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors (U. of Nebraska Press). a Kansas Notable Book. She taught at Haskell Indian Nations University, where she founded the creative writing program. She now teaches for Baker University’s School of Professional and Graduate Studies. Board memberships include Write On Door County; The 222, a Sonoma County arts organization, where she programs the Indigenous Voices series; and formerly Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP, past president). She has Lenape/Munsee (Delaware) and European heritage. She lives in California’s Sonoma County, homeland of Pomo people.