Erin Bad Hand is an iyeska poet; Lakota, Eastern Cherokee and a myriad of others. She is a dancer, a singer, a traveler, and a lover of life. She has her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; she has been a Macondo Fellow, an Enchanted Land Fellow at A Room Of Her Own Foundation, has given readings and performances across the country, and has worked often with youth in spoken word, art and community involvement. She has been published in Chokecherries (A SOMOS Anthology), The Sister Fund Newsletter, Taos Poetry Circus: The Nineties (2002), Fnews Magazine, Drunken Boat, The Prairie Schooner, among others, and has a chapbook published by the Hulbert Center Press of Colorado College titled And Then Everyone Can Rest(2002).

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