Tiffany Midge was raised by wolves in the Pacific Northwest and aspires to be the Distinguished Writer in Residence for Seattle’s Space Needle. She is a former humor columnist for Indian Country Today and currently writes the column Heard Around the West for High Country News.
Her books of essays include Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s and The Dreamcatcher in the Wry, both from Bison Books. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Real Simple, The New Yorker, The Brooklyn Rail and more. Her poetry collections include Horns, winner of a Wilder Prize with Two Sylvias Press, and The Woman Who Married a Bear, winner of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Indigenous Poetry Prize and a Western Heritage Award.
Midge enjoys frisky romps through dewy meadows and considers her contribution to humanity to be her sparkly personality.