Kimberly Wieser-Weryackwe is professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and affiliated Native Studies faculty. She is the author of Back to the Blanket: Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies (OU Press, 2017), co-author of Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (OU Press, 2008), and editor of American Indian Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students (Bloomsbury, 2025).