Debra Magpie Earling

<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Debra Magpie Earling</b> is the author of <i>Perma Red </i>and <i>The</i> <i>Lost Journals of Sacajewea</i>. An earlier version of the latter, written in verse, was produced as an artist book during the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. She has received both a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is retired from the University of Montana, where she was named professor emeritus in 2021. She is Bitterroot Salish.</p>