Ardie Medina is a Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin Anishinabe poet who has twice participated in The Loft Literary Center’s Native American InRoads program. She is also a playwright and has appeared in the Minnesota Fringe Festival as writer and actor. Her commissioned work includes poems based on the Weisman Art Museum’s New Voices of the Heartland exhibit (2002) and poetry for the Twin Cities Women’s Choir’s spring concert (2003) entitled Strong Hearts Leading the Way, a performance piece of music and spoken word. You can find Ardie’s poems in the anthologies Traces in Blood, Bone and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry (2006, Loonfeather Press) and Yellow Medicine Review. Ardie lives in northeast Minneapolis with her husband and their dog, Amos.