Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, was born on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington in 1966. He is a prolific writer of novels, short stories, poems and screenplays. The movie Smoke Signals, which was based on his short story “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” and for which he wrote the screenplay, won awards at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. His collections of short stories have also won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His latest collection of poetry is titled Ten Little Indians, released in 2003.

The Indiana Review published three poems of Mr. Alexie’s in Volume 18.2: “Faith,” “How to Write the Great American Indiana Novel,” and “Capital Punishment.” One of Mr. Alexie’s poems was also published in Volume 25.1, “A Short History of Arm-Horses.”

Sherman Alexie's Home Page
Sherman Alexie at Modern American Poetry
Sherman Alexie at Poets.org

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