Denise Low, a former Kansas Poet Laureate, is winner of the Red Mountain Press Editor’s Choice Award for Shadow Light. Other recent books are Casino Bestiary (Spartan) and a memoir, The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival (University of Nebraska). A book of docupoetry House of Grace, House of Blood, is forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press in 2024. She founded the Creative Writing Program at Haskell Indian Nations University, where she taught and was an administrator. Low is past board president of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and currently curates the Indigenous Voices series for The 222, an arts organization in Sonoma County, California. She teaches for Baker University’s School of Professional and Graduate Studies. She has Lenape and Munsee heritage.