David Treuer

David Treuer, an author and editor, is Ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, three Minnesota Book Awards, and fellowships from the NEH, Bush Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and was a Fellow at the American Academy Berlin.

His most recent book The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (2019) was a New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award Finalist, a Minnesota Book Prize winner, a California Book Prize winner, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and a finalist for the Carnegie Medal. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times,  Washington Post, and Harper’s. He is a contributing writer for Atlantic Monthly Magazine and an editor-at-large for Pantheon Books. He divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Los Angeles, where he is a professor of English at the University of Southern California.