Sylvia Ross
Sylvia Ross is from California's Chukchansi people, and her poetry appeared in the anthologies The Dirt is Red Here: The Art and Poetry from Native California (Heyday Books, 2002), Spring Salmon, Hurry to Me: The Seasons of Native California (Heyday Books, 2008), and Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2016). She worked as a cell painter for Walt Disney Productions before returning to school to earn a BA from Fresno State University.
Ross is the author of Lion Singer (Heyday Books, 2005), a children’s book about a boy in the Chukchansi tribe. She also wrote and illustrated the children’s book Blue Jay Girl (Heyday Books, 2010), about a child of the Tule River Reservation. Her most recent book is a novel, Ilsa Rohe: Parsing Vengeance (Bently Avenue Books, 2014), published under the name Stephenson Ross. She lives in Exeter, California.