ABSTRACT
Storyteller, poet, publisher, editor, Joseph Bruchac has devoted his considerable energies to bringing American Indian verbal and written art to the eyes and ears of a generation of readers, both in America and abroad. He has authored more than twenty volumes of his own work, and his poems and stories have appeared in more than 400 publications. He has also earned a considerable reputation as a storyteller, traveling around the country and performing both contemporary and traditional stories. Perhaps Bruchac is best known in the field as an editor and promoter of new talent. As editor and co-founder of the Greenfield Review Press, he has been the single most important force in the nation in publishing and promoting the work of emerging Native American writers. Bruchac is perhaps most widely known for his editing of two key volumes: Songs from This Earth on Turtle’s Back (1983), a collection of the work of fifty-two poets, as well as the more recent collection of interviews with American Indian writers, Survival This Way (1987).
