Heid E. Erdrich
Heid E. Erdrich is author of Little Big Bully (National Poetry Series, 2019) and six other poetry collections. In addition, she edited New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf Press, 2018). Heid is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. She teaches in the low-residency MFA in creative writing program at Augsburg University. Heid was the 2021 Glasgow distinguished writer-in-residence (virtual) at Washington and Lee University.
Reading List
Faith and Less
Candle wax won’t drip back up the wick, the coin slot will not cough up change, snuffers won’t breath flame. Faith goes and won’t come back. Presto-change-o! Just like that, an angel-robed altar boy exits the sacristy and he’s a tousle-haired kid again, fidgeting beside you in school. The ordinary emerges from the holy […]
A Weird Thing to Spend Your Life Doing
During the winter 2021 semester, Heid E. Erdrich was the (virtual) Glasgow Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Washington and Lee University. As part of her residency, she visited the Shenandoah Internship class to discuss her work. Two interns—Kaelan McCabe and Georgia Ballew—researched her work and spoke to her about it via Zoom; this is a transcription of […]