Author of the 2012 collection Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems and Winner of the 2009 Minnesota Book Award for her poetry collection National Monuments, Heid E. Erdrich also co-edited Sister Nations: Native American Women on Community. Her first play, Curiosities, was produced by Pangea World Theater in 2010. She is Ojibwe, enrolled at Turtle Mountain. Heid grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and attended Dartmouth College and Johns Hopkins University. Heid has worked in education and in community for twenty years teaching writing, lecturing on Native American literature, on language recovery, and on visual art. She is a frequent visiting author and project scholar for colleges, universities, libraries and art and cultural centers. She has curated over a dozen visual art exhibits in recent years. Currently, Heid directs Wiigwaas Press, an Ojibwe language publisher, and she is at work on a cookbook from the indigenous foods movement.
