Denise Low-Weso
Literary Program Co-Director
Denise Low, Ph.D. was Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-09. She won a Red Mountain Press award for Shadow Light: Poems. Other publications are The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival (U. of Nebraska Press) and Jigsaw Puzzling: Essays (Meadowlark Press). At Haskell Indian Nations University she founded the creative writing program. She edited Kansas Poems of William Stafford; Essays (Woodley). Board memberships include Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po) and Associated Writers and Writing Programs (2009-14). She has Lenape/Munsee (Delaware) Indigenous heritage.