Anita Endrezze

Anita Endrezze is a writer, poet, teacher, and artist. Her writing has appeared in many literary magazines and in dozens of anthologies, such as Carriers of the Dream Wheel, Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry, Reinventing the Enemy's Language, Talking Leaves, Blue Dawn, Red Earth, Earth Song, Sky Spirit, and a book of autobiographical essays, Here First. She is the author of eight books including the short story collection, Butterfly Moon (University of Arizona Press, 2012), Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon (University of Arizona Press, 2000), at the helm of twilight (Broken Moon Press, 1992), Bjerget og Skystaanden (CD-Forlag, 1986), and Lune d'Ambre (Rougerie, 1991). She also has two chapbooks of poems, Breaking Edges and A Thousand Branches from Red Bird Press. Her work has been translated into ten languages (Farsi, Danish, French, German, Macedonian, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Catalonian, and Spanish). A recent broadside from Red Bird Press features her poem "K.I.A.," along with artist James Autio. Her collaborative altered-book projects have toured the world, with one archived in the Smithsonian Institute. Some of Anita's paintings can be found on book covers, such as Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry. She's had exhibitions in England, Wales, and the U.S.A. Endrezze has a Master of Arts Degree in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University, and a B.A. in English, with an emphasis on Secondary Education. She's taught high school, college, university, and in the Poets in the Schools program. She's won the Washington State Writers Award, the Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Award, an Artist Trust Gap Award, and First Place in the Washington Poetry Society Contest. She was a two-year appointee for the Washington State Humanities Commission in their Inquiring Mind Speaker series. Anita speaks Danish and some Spanish. Anita is half-Native American (Yaqui, Pima, Maya), Slovenian, north Italian, German-Swiss.