Amber Blaeser-Wardzala

Amber Blaeser-Wardzala is an Anishinaabe writer, beader, and Jingle Dress Dancer from White Earth Nation in Minnesota. She received her MFA from Arizona State University and was the 2024-25 George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy. Her writing is published in the bestselling Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, The Iowa Review, Joyland, Passages North, CRAFT, and others. Blaeser-Wardzala is a 2022 Tin House Fellow and a 2021 Fellow for the inaugural Women’s National Book Association Authentic Voices Program. Her short fiction was a finalist for Best of the Net and nominated for a Pushcart. She is a Visiting Professor of Fiction at Ohio State University. Her novel and short story collection are forthcoming from Pantheon Books.

Visit her site at amberblaeserwardzala.wordpress.com