About the Author
Adrian C. Louis was born and raised in Nevada and is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. From 1984 until 1997, he taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Since 1999 he has been a professor in the Southwest Minnesota State University system. He has written ten books of poems and two works of fiction. His recent collection, Logorrhea, was a finalist for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.