Born and raised in Nevada, Adrian C. Louis is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. A graduate of Brown University where he also earned a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing, Louis was professor of English at Minnesota State University in Marshall until his retirement in 2014. Author of ten books of poems, including Logorrhea, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Louis also wrote two works of fiction: Wild Indians & Other Creatures and Skins.
