Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Editor & Author

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke descends from moundbuilders and is of Cherokee, Creek, Huron, Metis, French Canadian, Lorraine, Portuguese, Irish, English, and Scot ascendants. Raised in North Carolina, the Plains and Canada, she previously worked horses, fields, waters, and factories. A fellow of the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, Black Earth Institute (emeritus), Salon Ada, and The Center for Great Plains Institute. Laura Da’ is a poet and a public school teacher. The Tecumseh Motel is her first publication. Da’ lives near Seattle with her husband and son. A writer and photographer, Ungelbah Davila, Navajo, Spanish and Irish, is the owner and editor of La Loca Magazine. A native New Mexican, Davila is an alumnus of the Institute of American Indian Arts, and the recent recipient of the National Newspaper Association award for Best Breaking News Story. She resides in Albuquerque with her fiancé Dustin and puppy dogs Oscar and Sprocket. Lara Mann is a native of Kansas, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and a University of Kansas alumnus. She is of English, Irish, Choctaw, French, German, Scottish, Spanish, Cherokee, Welsh, and Mohawk heritage. Mann finished her MFA (Creative Writing) in 2009, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is anticipating the release of he nonfiction 'Indigenous Game Theory,' co-authored with LeAnne Howe. She teaches at Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kansas. Kateri Menominee (Bay Mills Tribe of Chippewa) received her BFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her poems have appeared in Drunken Boat and in the IAIA Anthologies Radical Enjambment, Birds and Other Omens, and Of Water and Moon. She has been honored with the Truman Capote Trust Scholarship, the N. Scott Momaday Scholarship, and the IAIA scholarship to the Naropa Summer Program.