Kimberly m blaeser biography of abraham lincoln

Trailing You (Greenfield Press), Blaeser’s first book of poetry, was awarded the 1994 Diane Decorah First Book Award by the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas.

Kimberly m blaeser biography of abraham lincoln

Her monograph Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996), based on her Ph.D. dissertation, was the first Native-authored book-length scholarly study on an Indigenous author. Blaeser also worked to promote Indigenous writers by editing two anthologies, Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose (Loonfeather Press, 1999) and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry (Loonfeather, 2006).

She released the collection Absentee Indians and Other Poems (Michigan State University Press) in 2002, followed by Apprenticed to Justice (Salt Publishing) in 2007.

Blaeser was selected as Wisconsin Poet Laureate in 2015.

Her fourth book of poetry, Copper Yearning (Holy Cow! Press, 2019), won the Council of Wisconsin Writers’ Edna