Gordon Henry (Ojibwe) is an enrolled member/citizen of the White Earth Anishinaabe Nation in Minnesota. He is a retired Professor in the English Department at Michigan State University, where he taught American Indian Literature and Creative Writing. He served several years as Senior Editor of the American Indian Studies Series at Michigan State University Press. In 1995, Henry received an American Book Award for his novel the Light People and his poetry, fiction and essays have been published extensively in the U.S. and Europe. In 2004, he co-published an educational reader on Ojibwe people with George Cornell. In 2007, Henry published a mixed-genre collection, The Failure of Certain Charms, with Salt Publishing. More recently Henry’s writing has appeared in, Bob Seger’s House, (Wayne State University Press); Iperstoria, a literary journal from the University of Verona, Italy; Revolucion: A Cuban Journal, of Havana; New Poets of Native Nations; Poetry; Wassafiri; and When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through (2020) and Living Nations, Living Words (2021)--two poetry anthologies edited by Joy Harjo. He lives in Empire, Michigan.