Verb Animate: Poetry and Prompts from Collaborative Acts

Heid E. Erdrich (born in Breckenridge, Minnesota) is an Ojibwe poet, editor, and visual artist of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. She received her BA from Dartmouth College and her MFA from Johns Hopkins University. Her poetry collections include Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media (Michigan State University Press, 2017), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Earlier collections include National Monuments (2008) and Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems (2012). She has received a Loft-McKnight Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the First Nations Communities Read Recognition. She teaches at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and is the sister of novelist Louise Erdrich.