Amber Blaeser-Wardzala is an Anishinaabe writer, beader, and Jingle Dress Dancer from White Earth Nation in Minnesota. She received her MFA from Arizona State University and her BA from Denison University. Her writing is published in the bestselling Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, The Iowa Review, Joyland, Passages North, CRAFT, and others. Her short fiction was a finalist for Best of the Net and nominated for a Pushcart. Blaeser-Wardzala is a 2022 Tin House Fellow and a 2021 Fellow for the inaugural Women’s National Book Association Authentic Voices Program. She has received support from Vermont Studio Center, Storyknife Writers Retreat, Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia G. Piper Center, the Center for Imaginations in the Borderlands, Kenyon Writer’s Workshop, and the Hambidge Center. She was the 2024-25 George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy. In fall 2025, she will join Ohio State University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Fiction. Her debut novel (Another Name for Red) and her short story collection (Deer Women) are forthcoming from Pantheon Books.