Bad Indians (10th Anniversary Edition)
A Tribal Memoir
- The paperback of Bad Indians [978-1-59714-201-4], published in 2012, is Heyday's best-selling California Indian title with over 21,000 copies sold
- A key Heyday backlist titles for years, Bad Indians is being published in hardcover for the first time ever
- Praised by the likes of Joy Harjo and Leslie Marmon Silko, Bad Indians fits neatly alongside such powerful own-voice narratives as Tommy Orange's There There and Terese Marie Mailhot's Heart Berries
- This 10th Anniversary Edition includes new poems and essays, as well as an extensive afterword
- Deborah Miranda lives in Eugene, OR
Deborah A. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California, with Santa Ynez Chumash ancestry. In addition to Bad Indians, she is the author of four poetry collections and coeditor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature. She earned her PhD in English literature from the University of Washington in Seattle and was Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, where she taught literature of the margins and creative writing. She retired from her professorship in 2021 to focus on scholarship and poetry involving California Mission history and literatures. She and her spouse, writer Margo Solod, live in Eugene, Oregon, a short distance from homelands in California.
More books by author
