Adrian C. Louis was born and raised in Nevada and is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. From 1984 to 1998, he taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota. Prior to this, Louis edited four Native newspapers, including a stint as managing editor of Indian Country Today. Louis has written eight books of poems, including Fire Water World, winner of the 1989 Poetry Center Book Award from San Francisco State University, and he is the author of two works of fiction: Skins , a novel, and a collection of short stories, Wild Indians & Other Creatures. Louis has won various writing awards, among them a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. In 1999, he was elected to the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. He currently resides in Minnesota and teaches at Southwest State University.

Modern American Poetry, Joe Napora, "About Adrian C. Louis’ Poetry"

Modern American Poetry, "Adrian C. Louis"

Ploughshares Online, Adrian C. Louis, "Earth Bone Connected to the Spirit Bone"

Ploughshares Online, "Adrian C. Louis: Works on Ploughshares Online"

The Cortland Review, "Song of the Snake" (audio and text)