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Cherie Dimaline is an award-winning Indigenous Canadian writer from the Georgian Bay Métis Nation. She writes speculative fiction for both teens and adults, and her stories are complex, diverse, well-developed, and memorable.
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Considered the most recognized Indigenous author, Louise Erdrich is an award-winning author who uses complex plots and an array of authentic characters to draw readers into life in rural North Dakota. Erdrich is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s writings reflect her own heritage as a Colorado Chicana with roots in Indigenous, Latina, and Filipino cultures. In her compelling and lyrical works, Fajardo-Anstine tells moving narratives of feminine power and explores abandonment, heritage, and an eternal sense of home.
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Stephen Graham Jones is a bestselling Blackfoot Native American author who generally writes novels and short story collections in the horror genre, but also dabbles in crime fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and thrillers. His writing is described to be a little bit unconventional, experimental, and creepy/borderline disturbing.
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Award-winning Native American author and 23rd United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo writes fiction and nonfiction, short stories, and poetry for adults, teens, and younger kids, often exploring social justice and personal identity. The use of symbolism in her poetry and short stories brings aspects of Native culture vividly to life, touching upon modern Indigenous issues and offering an important perspective on longstanding prejudices.
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Cherokee author Brandon Hobson writes reflective and engaging fiction that focus on Oklahoma Indigenous life, with an emphasis on Indigenous children in the foster care system and Indigenous family struggles and relationships.
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N. Scott Momaday is a Kiowa novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 and is considered the first major work of the Native American Renaissance.
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Marcie Rendon is a Native American playwright, poet, author, community arts activist, and a member of the White Earth Band in Minnesota. She is an award-winning author of a fresh new murder mystery series and also has an extensive body of fiction and nonfiction works.
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Award-winning Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo fantasy writer Rebecca Roanhorse is an author of compelling and fast-paced novels characterized by a strong focus on Indigenous characters, culture, and experiences.
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Ojibwe author David Treuer writes fiction and nonfiction that focuses on Native American history and lifeways. His novels, often focusing on the contrasts between Native and Anglo cultures, are lyrical and stylistically complex, moving, and intricately plotted.
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Cherokee author Margaret Verble writes historical fiction focusing on the lives of the Cherokee in Oklahoma from the 17th century to the 20th century. Her writings are intricately plotted and character driven drawing on family relationships and social issues.
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