Sherman Alexie is the author of twenty-one books of poetry and prose, most recently Face (poems, Hanging Loose, 2009) and War Dances (poems and stories, Grove, 2009). The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown, 2007) won the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.Several of his new poems appear in Smartish Pace Issues 16 & 19. [2012]