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 was the 2024-25 George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy. 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. 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, Ragdale Foundation, the Hambidge Center, Storyknife Writers Retreat, the Virginia G. Piper Center, and Center for Imagination in the Borderlands. Her novel (Another Name for Red) and her short story collection (Deer Women) are forthcoming from Pantheon Books.

Selected Publications:

Deer Women. Pantheon, 2029.

Another Name for Red. Pantheon, 2027.

"Collections."  Never Whistle at Night Anthology. Vintage, 2023.