Heid E. Erdrich, author of Fishing for Myth poems from New Rivers Press and co-editor of Sister Nations anthology from the Minnesota Historical Society Press, has won awards from The Loft Literary Center, Minnesota State Arts Board, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, and the Archibald Bush Foundation. She founded Birchbark Books Press with her sister, author Louise Erdrich. Her degrees are from Dartmouth College and Johns Hopkins University. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibway, she was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota where her parents taught at the Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school. She teaches at The University of St. Thomas.

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• Offering: Words1 Honey SweetCraving HoneyThe Way ToShe DancesThe Hive ImprovisationWeeds in GriefIntimate DetailThe Way To Have No ChildStungThe Way To Be ConvincedThis Body, The RiverNeon Lovers, Another PaintingFor Her SakeThe Red ToadOyster MotherAmazon Huntress Gives Birth to TwinsWith Honey from the Rock Would I Satisfy YouWoman’s WorkPicaThe Deep2 Salt LickCraving, First MonthOffering: The ChildWhen I Go Down to PrayKookumFirst RiceIdol ConstructionThe Girl in Geography ClassAdviceThe Bee Kept WifeCat WomanParade of Old LovesWhat Pregnant is LikeYoung Poets with Roman NosesWedding BlessingNesting DollsCraving, Seventh MonthAnother Touch3 Milk Sour Offering: The BreastsCraving ReleaseSisters Stay On the Other SideImageAfter ImageAfter BirthPostpartum IPostpartum IIPostpartum IIIPostpartum IVPostpartum VNew BornLookBreastsTwelve Items or Less, 1999Popular Parenting4 Bitter RootOffering: OjibweCraving: Bitter RootTwin BugsVermillion Hands PetroglyphOur Words Are Not Our OwnPoem for Our Ojibwe NamesThey All Dream the Lake, AgainIn the BellyMother of SorrowsSummer of InfanticidesLast SnowChangelingElemental ConceptionMaternal Desire1 a.m. Turtle PoolRemedyWiisah kote: The Burnt Wood PeopleMindimoyeg: DandelionsOld Man’s TaleBasswoodHusbandryThe Good WomanThe Only ChildMotherhood as First Language

Heid E. Erdrich, author of Fishing for Myth poems from New Rivers Press and co-editor of Sister Nations anthology from the Minnesota Historical Society Press, has won awards from The Loft Literary Center, Minnesota State Arts Board, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, and the Archibald Bush Foundation. She founded Birchbark Books Press with her sister, author Louise Erdrich. Her degrees are from Dartmouth College and Johns Hopkins University. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibway, she was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota where her parents taught at the Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school. She teaches at The University of St. Thomas.

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• Offering: Words1 Honey SweetCraving HoneyThe Way ToShe DancesThe Hive ImprovisationWeeds in GriefIntimate DetailThe Way To Have No ChildStungThe Way To Be ConvincedThis Body, The RiverNeon Lovers, Another PaintingFor Her SakeThe Red ToadOyster MotherAmazon Huntress Gives Birth to TwinsWith Honey from the Rock Would I Satisfy YouWoman’s WorkPicaThe Deep2 Salt LickCraving, First MonthOffering: The ChildWhen I Go Down to PrayKookumFirst RiceIdol ConstructionThe Girl in Geography ClassAdviceThe Bee Kept WifeCat WomanParade of Old LovesWhat Pregnant is LikeYoung Poets with Roman NosesWedding BlessingNesting DollsCraving, Seventh MonthAnother Touch3 Milk Sour Offering: The BreastsCraving ReleaseSisters Stay On the Other SideImageAfter ImageAfter BirthPostpartum IPostpartum IIPostpartum IIIPostpartum IVPostpartum VNew BornLookBreastsTwelve Items or Less, 1999Popular Parenting4 Bitter RootOffering: OjibweCraving: Bitter RootTwin BugsVermillion Hands PetroglyphOur Words Are Not Our OwnPoem for Our Ojibwe NamesThey All Dream the Lake, AgainIn the BellyMother of SorrowsSummer of InfanticidesLast SnowChangelingElemental ConceptionMaternal Desire1 a.m. Turtle PoolRemedyWiisah kote: The Burnt Wood PeopleMindimoyeg: DandelionsOld Man’s TaleBasswoodHusbandryThe Good WomanThe Only ChildMotherhood as First Language

Heid E. Erdrich, author of Fishing for Myth poems from New Rivers Press and co-editor of Sister Nations anthology from the Minnesota Historical Society Press, has won awards from The Loft Literary Center, Minnesota State Arts Board, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, and the Archibald Bush Foundation. She founded Birchbark Books Press with her sister, author Louise Erdrich. Her degrees are from Dartmouth College and Johns Hopkins University. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibway, she was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota where her parents taught at the Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school. She teaches at The University of St. Thomas.

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• Offering: Words1 Honey SweetCraving HoneyThe Way ToShe DancesThe Hive ImprovisationWeeds in GriefIntimate DetailThe Way To Have No ChildStungThe Way To Be ConvincedThis Body, The RiverNeon Lovers, Another PaintingFor Her SakeThe Red ToadOyster MotherAmazon Huntress Gives Birth to TwinsWith Honey from the Rock Would I Satisfy YouWoman’s WorkPicaThe Deep2 Salt LickCraving, First MonthOffering: The ChildWhen I Go Down to PrayKookumFirst RiceIdol ConstructionThe Girl in Geography ClassAdviceThe Bee Kept WifeCat WomanParade of Old LovesWhat Pregnant is LikeYoung Poets with Roman NosesWedding BlessingNesting DollsCraving, Seventh MonthAnother Touch3 Milk Sour Offering: The BreastsCraving ReleaseSisters Stay On the Other SideImageAfter ImageAfter BirthPostpartum IPostpartum IIPostpartum IIIPostpartum IVPostpartum VNew BornLookBreastsTwelve Items or Less, 1999Popular Parenting4 Bitter RootOffering: OjibweCraving: Bitter RootTwin BugsVermillion Hands PetroglyphOur Words Are Not Our OwnPoem for Our Ojibwe NamesThey All Dream the Lake, AgainIn the BellyMother of SorrowsSummer of InfanticidesLast SnowChangelingElemental ConceptionMaternal Desire1 a.m. Turtle PoolRemedyWiisah kote: The Burnt Wood PeopleMindimoyeg: DandelionsOld Man’s TaleBasswoodHusbandryThe Good WomanThe Only ChildMotherhood as First Language