Kimberly M. Blaeser

Who is Kimberly M. Blaeser?

Kimberly Blaeser is a Native American writer of mixed German and Anishinaabe descent. She is an enrolled tribal member, and grew up on the White Earth reservation.

Her first book of poetry, Trailing You, was awarded the 1993 Diane Decorah First Book Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, and she was the first critic to publish a book-length study of the fiction of her fellow White Earth Anishinaabeg writer, Gerald Vizenor. Blaeser currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.