About Qwo-Li Driskill:

Qwo-Li Driskill is a Cherokee Two-Spirit/Queer writer, scholar, educator, activist, and performer also of African, Irish, Lenape, Lumbee, and Osage ascent and the author of Walking with Ghosts: Poems. Hir artistic and scholarly work appears in numerous publications, and s/he performs and facilitates workshops at events across Turtle Island.

Qwo-Li grew up in rural Colorado and attended the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley before moving to Seattle in 1998 to attend Antioch University Seattle. In 2004 Qwo-Li moved from Seattle to Michigan, where s/he earned a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric & Writing at Michigan State University in 2008. S/he is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English at Texas A&M University.



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