Kim Shuck (Cherokee/Sac & Fox) is a poet, weaver, educator, doer of piles of laundry, planter of seeds, traveler and child wrangler. Kim is the recipient of the Native Writers of the America’s First Book Award for her 2005 book Smuggling Cherokee. She has an MFA in weaving from SFSU, and was a member of the board of directors for Califorinia Poets in the Schools.

This project is co-sponsored by the American Indian Resource Center, Care Council, The Departments of American Studies, Literature, and the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.