Margaret Noodin

Margaret Noodin received an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is currently a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she also serves as the Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education. She is the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature and two collections of bilingual poems in Ojibwe and English, Weweni and What the Chickadee Knows. Her poems have been anthologized in New Poets of Native Nations, Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, Poetry Magazine, The Michigan Quarterly Review and Yellow Medicine Review. To see and hear current projects visit www.ojibwe.net where she and other students and speakers of Ojibwe have created a space for language to be shared by academics and the native community.