About me
Tiffany Midge is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and was raised by wolves in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Brooklyn Rail, Real Simple, First American Art Magazine, World Literature Today, McSweeney’s, and more. Midge’s poetry collections include Horns, winner of a Two Sylvias Press Wilder Prize, and The Woman Who Married a Bear, winner of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Indigenous Poetry Prize and a Western Heritage Award. Other honors include Submittable's 2020 Eliza So Fellowship, a 2019 Pushcart Prize, and a 2019 Simons Public Humanities fellowship. Midge is currently a columnist for High Country News and a former columnist for Indian Country Today. Her essay collections include Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s (Washington State Book Award finalist), and The Dreamcatcher in the Wry, both by Bison Books. Midge aspires to be the Distinguished Writer in Residence for Seattle’s Space Needle and considers her contribution to society to be her sparkly personality.
