Heather Cahoon

Heather Cahoon is the author of Horsefly Dress (University of Arizona Press, 2020) and the chapbook Elk Thirst, which won the Merriam-Frontier Prize in 2005. Cahoon earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Montana, where she was the Richard Hugo Scholar. She has received a Potlatch Fund Native Arts Grant and Montana Arts Council Artist Innovation Award. A member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes from the Flathead Reservation, Cahoon is an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Montana.