Perma Red - Debra Magpie Earling

Earling, Debra Magpie: - Debra Magpie Earling is the author of Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajewea . An earlier version of the latter, written in verse, was produced as an artist book during the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. She has received both a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She retired from the University of Montana where she was named professor emeritus in 2021. She is Bitterroot Salish.