Terese Marie Mailhot is from Seabird Island Band in BC, Canada. Her book Heart Berries: A Memoir was published by Counterpoint Press. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Toast, Yellow Medicine Review, The Rumpus, Burrow Press Review, and elsewhere. She works as the Tecumseh Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University, and as creative writing faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she also received her MFA.