Amber Blaeser-Wardzala

Amber Blaeser-Wardzala is an Anishinaabe writer, beader, fencer, and Jingle Dress Dancer from White Earth Nation in Minnesota. A current MFA Candidate in Fiction at Arizona State University, her writing has appeared or is forthcoming from The Iowa Review, Never Whistle at Night Anthology, Joyland, Tahoma Literary Review, CRAFT, Passages North, Ruminate Magazine, and others. Blaeser-Wardzala is a 2022 Tin House Scholar and a 2021 fiction fellow for the inaugural Women's National Book Association Authentic Voices Program. In 2022, her novel was shortlisted for the Granum Foundation Prize. Her short fiction has been received nominations for Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best American Short Stories. She is a Research Assistant for Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and is the current Nonfiction Editor for Hayden's Ferry Review.