Amber Blaeser-Wardzala is an Anishinaabe writer, beader, fencer, and Jingle Dress Dancer from White Earth Nation in Minnesota. A current Fiction MFA Candidate at Arizona State University, her writing is published or forthcoming from
The Iowa Review,
Joyland,
Passages North,
Tahoma Literary Review,
CRAFT, and others. Blaeser-Wardzala is a 2022 Tin House Fellow and a 2021 Fellow for the Women’s National Book Association Authentic Voices Program. Her novel-in-progress was shortlisted for the 2022 Granum Foundation Prize. She is the current Nonfiction Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. Find her on
Twitter and
Instagram @amber2dawn.
