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ADRIAN C. LOUIS was born and raised in Nevada and is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute tribe. He is the author of two works of fiction and eight books of poetry including Fire Water World(West End Press, 1989), winner of the 1989 Poetry Center Award from San Francisco State University, and Vortex of Indian Fevers (1995), also published by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press. Louis is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Bush Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. In 1999 he was elected to the Nevada Writers' Hall of Fame. He currently resides in Minnesota and teaches at Southwest State University.