Gerald Vizenor

GERALD VIZENOR is a prolific novelist, poet, literary critic, and citizen of the White Earth Nation of the Anishinaabeg in Minnesota. He received the 2022 Mark Twain Award for Distinguished Contributions to Midwestern Literature. His novels Shrouds of White Earth and Griever: An American Monkey King in China won American Book Awards, and the latter also earned a New York Fiction Collective Award.