As an Abenaki scholar, performer, and historical consultant, Bruchac specializes in Algonkian Indian history, oral traditions, museum representations, and material culture. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Connecticut at Avery Point. A few early poetic expressions appeared in a small local publication---the Griffin’s Prism Book---in 1970. Her more recent (and mostly academic) publications include: “molly has her say” in Keepers of the Morning Star: Native American Women Playwrights (UCLA Press 2001); “Earthshapers and Placemakers: Algonkian Indian Stories and the Landscape” in Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonizing Theory and Practice (Routledge Press 2005); and Malian’s Song (Vermont Folklife Center 2006). In 2009, Marge served as a Writer in Residence for the Wabanaki Writers’ Camp on the Penobscot River in Maine; her experiences among that company of young and old Native writers inspired several of the poems published here.