Kimberly Blaeser author biography, plus links to books by Kimberly Blaeser.

Kimberly Blaeser

Kimberly Blaeser is the former Wisconsin Poet Laureate and the founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets. She is an MFA faculty member at Institute of American Indian Arts, Professor Emerita at UW–Milwaukee, and was the 2024 Lois and Willard Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College and a Tin House Fellow in 2024. Among her many awards, she received the 2025 Poets and Writers' Writer for Writers award and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (2021). She has published six poetry collections and her story "The Making of Monsters" was selected for the second installment of the bestselling anthology Never Whistle At Night, Never Whistle at Night II: Back for Blood (Vintage, Fall 2026). Blaeser is Anishinaabe, an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, and grew up on the reservation in northwestern Minnesota.

This biography was last updated on 10/20/2026.

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