Selected Contributors:

Mick Gridley edited this issue of Stand and is Emeritus Professor of American Literature & Culture at the University of Lededs. He won the 2007 Arthur Miller Prize for an essay on Richard Avedon. His recent publications on Native American themes include several articles on the photography of Indians and the book Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field.

Lance Hensen of Cheyenne, Oglala and French descent was raised as a Cheyenne. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Tulsa, and lived for many years in Oklahoma before taking up an itenerant way of life, moving between Europe and the US, conducting poetry workshops and giving readings in many different countries. He has published 17 books of poetry, appeared in numerous anthologies, and his work has been translated into 25 languages. His plays have been staged by La MaMa and other theatre groups, and he has recorded in poetry and jazz combinations with such artists as Brian Eno. His books include Paria (Paris Méditerranée), Lieder in der Sprache des Feides [Songs in the Enemy's Language] (Big Mountain Aktiongruppe), and A Cheyenne Sketchbook (Greenfield Review Press).

Misha Nogha is of Cree, Métis and Nordic descent and her writing reflects the spiritual traditions of those heritages. Her novel Red Spider White Web won the Readercon award and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke award. Her poem Tsuki Magnestsu won the 1989 Prix D'ITalia award. Misha is the author of three books of short prose and poetry, and is currently working on her third novel Alruna and a libretto for composer Arie Von Schutterhoff on String Theory. Misha lives in the Blue Mountains of Oregon where she owns and operates a small farm raising Norwegian Fjord horses.

Carter Revard, born and raised on the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma, was given his Osage name in September 1952, and then road a foamy-throated Queen Elizabeth over the whale-road to England, and a bus down the wrong side of an asphalt road to Oxford -- where, that October, he heard Dylan Thomas read in the tongues of men and angels his 'Poem in October.' In March 2006 his seven-line autobiography, 'Birch Canoe,' was among the Poems on the Underground in London. Among his books are Winning The Dust Bowl (University of Arizona Press, 2001) and How the Songs Come Down (Salt, 2005).

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