Ann-erika White Bird is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, Rosebud Sioux Tribe. She has a bachelor’s degree in English, Creative Writing from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has published poetry in various online platforms and anthologies. Her artwork is part of the permanent collection at the Denver Art Museum; one of her pieces travels in the permanent collection with the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies (CAIRNS) in an exhibition called “Emergence”. She believes her most valuable contributions to the beauty of this world are her two children, Josh and Osina. Ann-erika is from St. Francis, South Dakota originally but sets up her tipi in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she resides with her two children and a four-legged, barking addition named Brownie Bear.