Kimberly Blaeser

Kimberly Blaeser is an Indigenous (Anishinaabe, White Earth Nation) poet with six poetry collections, the most recent being Ancient Light (2024). She is a former Wisconsin poet laureate. She teaches in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is professor emerita at UW-Milwaukee. Her poem 'After Words' appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, and she placed in its 2023 Indigenous Poets Prize.