Margaret Noodin

As Unbound grows, so we seek new ways to examine and interrogate the joys and mysteries of words and language. To that end, this year we’re thrilled to welcome poet and scholar Margaret Noodin to the festival. In addition to reading her poetry, Margaret will be participating in our panel on multilingual texts, along with Erika Sanchez and Ilya Kaminsky.

Margaret Noodin received an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is currently a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she also serves as Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education and a Scholar in the Center for Water Policy. She is the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature and two bilingual collections of poetry, Weweni and Gijigijigikendan: What the Chickadee Knows. Her poems are also anthologized in New Poets of Native Nations, Poetry, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Water Stone Review andYellow Medicine Review. Her research spans linguistic revitalization, indigenous ontologies, traditional science and prevention of violence in indigenous communities. To see and hear current projects visit www.ojibwe.net where she and other students and speakers of Ojibwe have created space for language to be shared by academics and the native community.