author of Crazy Horse's Girlfriend

called “a literary master” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and “one of our most talented living writers” by Tommy Orange

Rising numbers of climate refugees

place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state

The son of a Scottish father and mixed-blood Indian mother

Rose Quartz: Poems Ute author of Crazy Horse's GirlfriendDraw me encircled in something other than gasoline. The poems of Rose Quartz hum with the naked energy of one who has found her way home after a journey rife with difficulty and who has the scars to show for it. In them, Sasha taqwblu LaPointe moves from intimate scenes of perila car accident, an unwelcome advance at a party, a miscarriageto the salvific, exhilarating punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and the centering shores of her Coast Salish