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Norma Wilson is a professor in the English Department
at the University of South Dakota. Dr. Wilson joined the University
of South Dakota English Department in 1978 after completing a Ph.D. in English
at the University of Oklahoma. Wild Iris, a book of her poetry, was published
in 1978. With her husband, Jerry Wilson, she co-wrote the film script for
South Dakota: A Meeting of Cultures (1985). Her recent publications include
the essay, "Nesting in the Ruins," in English Postcoloniality:
Literatures from Around the World, ed. Mohanran and Rajan. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1996: 179-87 and The Nature of Native American Poetry. Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 2001
Norma Wilson is currently writing an essay, "Indigenous Voices for
Peace," for presentation at the Annual Modern Language Association
Conference on December 28, 2003. She was a featured author at the first
South Dakota Book Festival in Deadwood on October 4, 2003, speaking about
her book, "The Nature of Native American Poetry." In the fall
of 2003, her students hear Delphine Red Shirt read from her books "Bead
on an Anthill" and "Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter." The
featured author scheduled for spring semester 2004 is Tony Long Wolf. Both
are contemporary Lakota writers.
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