Amber Blaeser-Wardzala
Tempe, AZ
Fiction
Amber Blaeser-Wardzala is an Anishinaabe writer, beader, and Jingle Dress Dancer from White Earth Nation in Minnesota. A current MFA Fiction Candidate at Arizona State University, her writing is published in Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, The Iowa Review, Joyland, Passages North, Tahoma Literary Review, CRAFT, and others. Blaeser-Wardzala is a 2022 Tin House Fellow and a 2021 Fellow for the inaugural Women’s National Book Association Authentic Voices Program. She has received residencies from Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, Storyknife Writers Retreat, and the Hambidge Center. Her short fiction has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart awards. She is a Research Assistant for the Center for Imaginations in the Borderlands and is the Nonfiction Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review.