GORDON HENRY

A poet and a novelist, Gordon Henry is a rising young writer who is well-known locally and nationally. He is an enrolled member of the White Earth Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota. Henry first drew attention as an American Indian writer in 1983, when his poetry was anthologized in Songs From This Earth on Turtle's Back: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Poetry. At that time he was a graduate student in Michigan State University's English/Creative Writing program. Since then he has been published in a variety of journals and has lectured on issues within American Indian literature.

His fiction has appeared in the anthology, Earth Song, Sky Spirit (Doubleday), and his novel entitled, The Light People (1994) appeared to much critical acclaim. He is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University.

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To hear Gordon Henry read from his works, go to: http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/writertest/february19.htm

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