Elena CisnerosElena Cisneros is a poet living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. She received her BA and MFA from Hamline University. She is the author of The Sad True Tales of J. Strait: In Which There Is Contemplation (2012), as well as Dark Star with artist Susan Solomon (2014). Her poetry has appeared in the St. Paul Almanac, Sleet Magazine, Red Bird Broadsides, and the Minnesota Book Arts Winter book Lessons for Our Time (2012). She also was a finalist for the Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose in the 2016- 2017 year. Read More Read Less