About the Author

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's books include Streaming, Blood Run, Off-Season City Pipe, Dog Road Woman, Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, Effigies, Effigies II, and Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. Awards include an American Book Award, King*Chavez*Parks Award, Lifetime Achievement Award Native Writers Circle of the Americas, Wordcrafter of the Year Award, Pen Southwest Book Award, and the 2016 Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship. She is founding faculty for the VCFA MFA in Writing & Publishing program, and a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside. Hedge Coke is mixed heritage, raised in North Carolina, Canada, and on the Great Plains. Dustin Illetewahke Mater, Chickasaw, is an award-winning multimedia artist and designer. He was the first southeastern tribal member to be a part of Pendleton Blankets Legendary Collection, and has a shell gorget housed in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, D.C., with additional artistic works shown in Paris, Edinburgh, the National Parks Service, and multiple reputable galleries. Mater has won numerous awards, including first place in sculpture at Santa Fe Indian Market. Mater previously illustrated Spider Brings Fire by Linda Hogan.

Reviews

Burn is relentless. A smoldering, ceaseless, fever voice that tells of a consuming rage destroying mountains, bats, 150 head of Black Angus-even the water isn't safe. Masterfully written by a poet in her prime. -LeAnne Howe, author of Shell Shaker, Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story, and forthcoming Savage Conversations Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's stunning work never disappoints. She writes the consuming fire-always on the original edge of remaking. -Jan Beatty, author of The Switching/Yard and Jackknife: New and Selected Poems Necessary illumination, visionary healing, groundbreaking and timely. --Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States