Ellen L. Arnold is Associate Professor of English at East Carolina University, where she teaches courses in Native American and Ethnic American literatures. She has published critical essays on Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Hogan, Carter Revard, and Allison Hedge Coke, and edited Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko (University Press of Mississippi, 2000).Márgara Averbach teaches U.S. Literature in the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Literary Translation in the I.E.S. Lenguas Vivas J.R. Fernández. She has translated 51 novels from English into Spanish and has published 15 books on literature for children and adults. She has published one academic book on slavery, Memoria oral de la esclavitud, and and another on Native American testimony, Historias orales de nativos estadounidenses contemporaneous, both published by Programa de Historia Oral de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has 21 journal articles, including American Quarterly, Feminine Speculation, American Indian Quarterly, and Studies in Native American Literatures (U.S.). She also has a chapter on Dances with Wolves in Screening Culture, edited by Heather Norris Nicholson (Lexington Books, Canada).Peter G. Beidler is the Lucy G. Moses Professor of English at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Like Carter Revard, he is a medievalist by academic training. He has also, however, been teaching and publishing on Native American literature for the last quartercentury. Although he has published on Silko, Welch, and other Indian writers, he has a special interest in the work of Louise Erdrich. A new and expanded edition of the book he wrote with Gay Barton, A Reader’s Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich, is just out (2006) from the University of Missouri Press.Robert Bensen is the editor of Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education (Univeristy of Arizona Press, 2001), for which Carter Revard wrote the Foreword. He has published five collections of his poems, most recently Two Dancers (Woodland Arts Editions, 2004). His poetry and essays have appeared in journals in the U.K., U.S. and Caribbean. Bensen won the Robert Penn Warren Award for Poetry as well as a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He, his wife and daughter live in Oneonta, New York, where he is director of writing at Hartwick College.Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez, Professor of English, teaches Native American literatures, environmental literatures, and literary criticism and theory at Bradley University. Author of Contemporary American Indian Literatures & the Oral Tradition (University of Arizona Press, 1999), Wittgenstein and Critical Theory (Ohio University Press, 1995), and numerous scholarly articles, she is completing two book manuscripts for the University of New Mexico Press: Native American Life History Narratives: Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography and “A Spring Wind Rising”: Native American Poet, Educator, Essayist, and Activist Simon J. Ortiz (co-edited with Evelina Zuni Lucero). Brill de Ramírez’s current projects include work on indigenous women storytellers and their women ethnographers, several collaborative research projects, and continuing work in environmental literatures and ecocriticism.Robin Riley Fast teaches American literature at Emerson College in Boston. She is the author of The Heart as a Drum: Continuance and Resistance in American Indian Poetry, the co-editor (with Christine Mack Gordon) of Approaches to Teaching Dickinson’s Poetry, and has published numerous articles on American Indian literature, poetry, and other topics.Susanna Fein is Professor of English and Coordinator of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at Kent State University. Her scholarship focuses on medieval manuscripts and Middle English poetry, including the lyrics of London, British Library Manuscript Harley 2253 and the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. She is editor of the journal Chaucer Review, and has authored or edited many articles and books, including the volume of essays entitled Studies in the Harley Manuscript (2000), which features the research of Carter Revard. She is currently editing the poems and carols of John the Blind Audelay from a fifteenth-century manuscript housed in Oxford.Jerry Harp grew up in Mt. Vernon, Indiana (U.S.A.). He has degrees from Saint Meinrad College (B.A.), Saint Louis University (M.A.), the University of Florida (M.F.A.), and the University of Iowa (2002). His books of poetry include Creature (Salt Publishing, 2003) and Gatherings (Ashland Poetry Press, 2004). He co-edited, with Jan Weissmiller, A Poetry Criticism Reader (University of Iowa Press, 2006). His reviews appear regularly in Pleiades. He teaches at Lewis & Clark College.Patrice Hollrah is the director of the Writing Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and teaches for the Department of English. She has published articles on Native America literature and is the author of “The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell”: The Power of Women in Native American Literature (Routledge, 2004).Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist is a professor of English, Native American Studies, and Cultural Studies at Brigham Young University. She is the author of Trickster: A Transformation Archetype (Mellen Research University Press, 1991) and Native American Literatures: An Introduction (Continuum Press, 2004). Lundquist has also published numerous essays on Native American Literature as well as essays on Jewish American and Women’s literatures. Lundquist spent ten years working among various Native tribes—the Tarahumara (Mexico), Quechua (Peru), and Aymara (Bolivia) Indians as well as among villagers in Central Mexico. Her central research interests surround the connections between ethnic/gender identity, politics, and cultural/human survival.Janet McAdams grew up in Alabama and attended the University of Alabama, where she was graduated with a B.A. in English and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Her first book, The Island of Lost Luggage, won the Diane Decorah Award for Poetry from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2000. Praised by reviewers as “closely crafted” and “achingly beautiful,” the collection received the American Book Award in 2001. She has been a resident artist at the Hambidge Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center, and Ucross. A certified Integral Yoga teacher, she also teaches creative writing and indigenous literature at Kenyon College, where she is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry. She is the editor of the Earthworks series of indigenous writing for Salt.Robert M. Nelson is a Professor of English at the University of Richmond, where he teaches a variety of courses in American Indian literatures. A former co-editor of the journal Studies in American Indian Literatures, he has published a number of articles on 20th century Native American poets and novelists and is currently completing a book that addresses the origins andSusan Scarberry-Garcia is Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University, specializing in Native American literature. She is author of Landmarks of Healing: A Study of House Made of Dawn and of Dancing Spirits: Jose Rey Toledo, Towa Artist. She has published numerous articles on the literatures and arts of the American Southwest and, and since 2000, articles in Russia and English on the literatures and ritual arts of Native Siberians with whom she has collaborated on their Native grounds. Previously President of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures and Chair of the Executive Committee for the Division of American Indian Literatures of MLA, Scarberry-Garcia has the highest regard for Carter Revard’s lifetime work.Norma C. Wilson is Professor Emeritus of English at the University ofSouth Dakota where she taught American Indian literature from 1978-2005. She met Carter Revard in the mid-1970s when she was writing her doctoral dissertation at the University of Oklahoma. Her articles on Native literature have been published in a numerous reference books and journals, including the Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth Century American Short Story, Teaching American Ethnic Literatures, Studies in American Indian Literatures, and Phatitude. She lives in the countryside near Vermillion, South Dakota, where she is currently writing poetry and prose about her life.
