Debra Magpie Earling
Debra Magpie Earling is the Director of the University of Montana Creative Writing Program. Her novel
Perma Red (Putnam, 2002) won the Western Writers Association Spur Award, WWA’s Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for Best First Novel, a WILLA Literary Award and the American Book Award.
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea (Koch editions, 2010), a collaboration with photographer Peter Rutledge Koch, re-invents the life of Sacajewea. Earling's publications also include stories in
The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology, Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories, Circle of Women: Anthology of Western Women Writers and
Wild Women: Anthology of Women Writers. She is the recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship.