Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction: Books

“Consignment” and “Living Brave.” Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World, edited by Darien Hsu Gee and Carla Crujido. Woodhall Press, forthcoming September 2022.“Glyph.” Our Place Is in Our Soul, ed. Serra Hoagland & Steve Albert. Forthcoming 2022.“Hope is in the Dance.” Hope is the Thing, ed. B. J. Hollars. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2021.”“Air is Between These Words, Fanning the Flame”: Poetry and Literary Inheritance.” Native Voices: Honoring Indigenous Poetry from North America.  Ed. Dean Rader & CMarie Fuhrman.  North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press, 2019. 218-23. Print.

“Rituals of Memory.” Adaptation Reprint in Print and Online Education Publications in Multiple Years including Collections (2nd edition).  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2016.  21-25. Print.

“This Weight of Small Bodies.” in Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World.  Ed. Alison Deming & Lauret Savoy.  Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2011.  188-95. Print.

“The Voices We Carry.” After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography.  Eds. David Graham & Kate Sontag.  St. Paul, MN: Greywolf Press, 2001.  269-80. Print.

“Rituals of Memory.” Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers.   Ed. Arnold Krupat & Brian Swann.  New York: Random House, Inc., 2000.  73-90. Print.

“The Birth of New Languages.” This Giving Birth: Pregnancy and Childbirth in American Woman’s Writing.  Eds. Susan MacCullum-Whitcomb and Julie Tharp. Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1999.   157-71. Print.

“On Mapping and Urban Shamans.” As We Are Now: Essays by Urban Mixedbloods.  Ed. William S. Penn.  Berkeley: U of California Press, 1997. 115-25. Print.

“Dear Christopher.”  Dear Christopher: Letters to Christopher Columbus by Contemporary Native Americans ed. Darryl Wilson and Barry Joyce.  Riverside, CA: Native American Studies, 1992.  5-11. Print. https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Christopher-Columbus-Contemporary-Americans/dp/0963557300

After Confession: Poetry As Autobiography, Kate Sontag & David Graham (Editors), Graywolf Press, 2001.

“Introduction,” Chippewa Families: A Social Study of White Earth Reservation, M. Inez Hilger, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1998.

“Introduction,” War Cries: A Collection of Plays, by Diane Glancy, Holy Cow Press, 1996.

Excerpts from “The Greatest American Indian Work Ever, Or What Really is Indian Literature?” American Indian Voices: A Regional Literacy Symposium, Faith B. Miracle, Wisconsin Academy of Science, 1996.

Creative Nonfiction: Journals

 “Body Language.” Notre Dame Magazine, Spring 2021.“A Belief, But Not a Fact.” 30 Days Hath September.2020: A Daily Collection of the Horrors and Hopes Around Us.  Black Earth Institute. September 21, 2020. Web. https://blackearthinstitute.org/a-belief-but-not-a-fact/“Sights of Removal.” Vassar Review: Fact, Fiction, Fabrication: Truth or Lies in Art or Literature. Issue 4. 2019. 5-9. Print.“Mazina’igan: To Feast on Words.” Tribal College Journal.  30.1 (Fall 2018). 44-45. Print & Web. https://tribalcollegejournal.org/tcj-student-fall-2018

Mini-Essay in “This Land is Your Land: The 22 best US national parks to escape the crowds, chosen by experts.” The Guardian. May 25, 2018. Print and Web. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/25/best-us-national-parks-escape-crowds

“Leaning Toward An Other Light.” Brain Mill Press Celebrates Poetry Month 2017. Ed. Christina Kubasta. Web.  http://www.brainmillpress.com/bmp-celebrates-poetry-month-2017/ (for feature cover) http://www.brainmillpress.com/kimberlyblaeser/voices/national-poetry-month-2017/leaning-toward-light/ (for essay).

Micro-Essay/Blog, “Storied Landscapes.” Milwaukee Urban Ecology Center. April 2017. Web. http://urbanecologycenter.org/blog/storied-landscapes.html

Essay & Photo, “The Resonance of Re-membering.” Bramble.  Ed. Christina Kubasta. Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (Winter 2017). Web.  http://www.wfop.org/bramble-lit-mag/ (for image and link) http://www.wfop.org/essay-resonance-of-remembering (for essay text).

Introduction, “Language, Tents, and Flysheets: Building a Shelter of the Ephemeral.” The Cream City Review: Returning the Gift, Indigenous Futures. 38.1 (Spring/Summer 2014).  32-35. Print.

“On the Existence of Unicorns.” “ON: Beliefs.” Wisconsin Humanities Council. Fall 2010. Print.

“Mixed Trout Messages.” Pembroke Magazine.  Ed. Jesse Peters. 38 (Fall 2006).  5-6. Print.

“Footnotes on a Friendship, February 2005,” Studies in American Indian Literatures. 17.2 (Summer 2005). 77-79. Print.

“A Harvest of Knowledge.” Wisconsin Woman. 4.11 (November 2002). 33. Print.

“Ventriloquism.” Rosebud. 21 (2001).  59-61. Print.

“A Storied Identity.” Phati’tude Literary Magazine. (Fall 2001). 33-36. (Reprint of “Human Instinct, Communality, and Other Unmentionables: A Native American Perspective of Identity.”) Print.

“Relativity,” Wisconsin Academy Review, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Winter 1999-2000).

“Human Instinct, Communality, and Other Unmentionables: A Native American Perspective of Identity.” The Cream City Review, 16.2 (Fall 1992).  271-79; Reprinted in The Cream City Review: 20th Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Andrew Rivera. 20.1 & 2 (1996).  229-36. Print.

“The Deadly Affair of Nuclear Reservations.” Notre Dame Magazine. 15.4 (Winter 1986-87). 78-79. Print.

“A Tale of Two Cultures.”  Notre Dame Magazine. II.5 (December 1982).  8 (Reprt. Speaking of Ourselves, X.2 (January 1984). 4). Print