LeAnne Howe is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation and writes fiction, poetry, screenplays, creative nonfiction, plays, and scholarship that primarily deal with American Indian experiences. She is the author of Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story, Choctalking on Other Realities, Evidence of Red, and Savage Conversations among other works. In 2012, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. 

Kirstin L. Squint, author of LeAnne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and Native American Literature and editor of Conversations with LeAnne Howe, specializes in Native American literatures of the U.S. Southeast. She is a Professor of English at East Carolina University. She has published and lectured on Native American literatures and cultures and U.S. multi-ethnic literatures and is the Vice President of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures.