Richard Wagamese is an Ojibway from the Wabasseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario. After winning a National Newspaper Award for Column Writing, he published two novels in the 1990s: Keeper’n Me and A Quality of Light. His autobiographical book, For Joshua, was published in 2002. Wagamese has also lectured and worked extensively in both radio and television news and documentary. He lives outside Kamloops, British Columbia.

Anna Lee Walters (born 1946) is a Pawnee/Otoe-Missouria author from Oklahoma. She works at the Diné College, where she directs the college press. She lives in Tsaile, Arizona with her husband, Harry Walters, the Director of the Museum at Diné College.  Her first novel, Ghost Singer (1994) is a dual mystery, one mystery being the suicide of researchers at the Smithsonian attributed to ghosts related to Indian artifacts there, the other mystery revolving around the way Indians understand there position in their ancestry and culture. Turning the genre on its head, only the latter mystery is resolved. Her short story collection, The Sun Is Not Merciful, won the Before Columbus Foundation 1985 American Book Award.

1930-1973.  Paul Warcloud was an author, artist and publisher. To help preserve Sioux language and traditions, he wrote and published a Dakota Sioux-English dictionary. His artwork is on permanent exhibition in the Gladys and Edgar Light Collection at Northern State University.

1825-1853.  William Whipple Warren was born in LaPointe, Minnesota in 1825. His mother was Ojibwe and his father was descended from a Mayflower pilgrim. Warren was educated in various mission schools in Minnesota and New York becoming fluent in English. In 1842 he married Matilda Aiken and moved to Crow Wing, Minnesota. Educating himself in the traditional customs and language of the Chippewas, he found work as a government interpreter. His career includes a seat on Minnesota State Legislature, and writer for The Minnesota Democrat. He also wrote about Ojibwe legends and traditions. Warren died at the age of 28 from tuberculosis.

Robert Allen Warrior was born in Marion County, Kansas and is an Osage tribal member. He has had an extensive career as a writer and journalist, including serving as the New York correspondent for the Lakota Times. He also worked in television, including the Children's Television Workshop in New York. In 1995 he served as advisory board member for Academic Systems, Inc. , developing a
multimedia writing curriculum, and was a Contributing Editor for Wicazo Sa Review , Rapid City, South Dakota 1993. In 1991-93 he served on the Board of Governors for the Native American International Prize in Literature. In 1999, he became a visiting professor at Cornell University's Department of English and American Indian Program. He joined the faculty of the Oklahoma University english department in 2000.

"Though growing up in Philadelphia where I fell in love with jazz, I spent a lot of time in rural Berwyn where I started school. Both parents are of Cherokee ancestry; the Wests on Mom's side are listed in the 1851 Siler Roll. Other family branches come from the Delmarva and various parts of eastern Pennsylvania; and like many Natives here we are part African American. I've published other collections of poems but those in Council Decisions (American Native Press Archives, 1991 ) are my strongest. I teach a range of American literatures in the English department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and my wife and I sell books for the Native American Authors Distribution Project at powwows throughout the Northeast. In the past few years my poems have appeared in Gatherings, Pig Iron, the SAIL poetry issue, and Archeae."

Winner of the 1997 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Native Writer's Circle, is a Blackfeet/Gros Ventre novelist and poet born in 1940, in Browning, Montana. He attended Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservation schools and later Northern Montana College, and Minnesota University; University of Montana, B.A. "I have seen poems about Indians written by whites and they are either sentimental or outrages over the condition of the Indian. There are exceptions . . . but for the most part only an Indian knows who he is . . . and hopefully he will have the toughness and fairness to present his material in a way that is not manufactured by conventional stance." -- James Welch, in South Dakota Review, 1971.

Bernelda Wheeler is a writer, storyteller and teacher from Winnipeg, Canada. She has also acted in the play Someday at Saskakatchewan's Globe Theater, and has served as an advisor to The Aboriginal Film and Video Art Alliance.

Born in 1964 and author of Brothers in Arms and Chuck in the City, Jordan Wheeler writes stories for many media, including television and books. He lives with his family in Winnipeg.

Ellen White is a Salish Elder from Nanaimo, British Columbia, who is widely respected for her knowledge of Salish tradition, language and culture. Kwulasulwut II: More Stories From The Coast Salish is her second book following Kwulasulwut Stories From The Coast Salish.