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Bill Wetzel is Amskapi Pikuni aka Blackfeet from Montana. His writing has appeared in the American Indian Culture & Research Journal, Yellow Medicine Review, Studies In Indian Literatures (SAIL), Hinchas de Poesia, Red Ink Magazine, Literary Orphans and various outlets. He is the founder of the Stjukshon Indigenous reading series at Casa Libre en la Solana in Tucson, AZ. He is a 2018 Peripheral Poet Fellow, and twice a Lijang Studio Spring Festival Writer-in-Residence in Lijang, Yunnan, China. He is the 2022 MFA Author Awards winner. He currently lives and teaches in Shanghai, China.
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'Skin Writing 101 SHARE
Bill Wetzel takes a fictional look through the eyes of a embittered indigenous writer. Touches on topics such as Pan-Indianism, tribalism, and cultural authenticity. This short story appears in the indigenous issue of Hinchas de Poesia, guest edited by Dine' poet and prose writer, Bojan Louis.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan: A Clear Presence SHARE
Essayist and "The Fluency Of Light: Coming of Age In a Theater of Black and White" author Aisha Sabatini Sloan writes:
"When I heard that Rodney King had died, two details in particular stuck out to me. One was that he died in a swimming pool. The other was that, earlier that day, somebody had heard him scream."
