Adrian C. Louis is the author of ten previous volumes of poetry and two works of fiction. An enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute tribe and a native of Nevada, he taught for many years at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. A former journalist, he has edited four Native newspapers including America's largest, Indian Country Today. Since 1999 he has been an English professor in the Minnesota State University system.