This is Where - Louise Waakaa'igan

Waakaa'igan, Louise: - Louise K. Waakaa'igan is enrolled at Odaawaa Zaaga 'iganiing (Lac Courte Orielles Reservation) in northern Wisconsin. Louise is the recipient of the 2017 PEN Poetry Prize for her first-place poem, There is Where. She is also the first-place winner of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop's Broadside Competition (2016). Louise's work has been previously published in PEN America, 21 Mythologies, The Moon Magazine, 27th Letter, Words in Gray Scale, and Doors Adjacent. She was released this year from the Shakopee Correctional Institution in Minnesota.