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m.s. RedCherries received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a JD from Arizona State University’s College of Law. She is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and lives in Brooklyn. More about this author >
From the publisher:
mother is a work rooted in an intimate fracture: an Indigenous child is adopted out of her tribe and raised by a non-Indian family. As an adult finding her way back to her origins, our unnamed narrator begins to put the pieces of her birth family’s history together through the stories told to her by her mother, father, sister, and brother, all of whom remained on the reservation where she was born. Through oral histories, family lore, and imagined pasts and futures, a collage of their community emerges, raising profound questions about adoption, inheritance, and Indigenous identity in America.
mother is at once a story, a memory, and a dream. “Riddled with shadowed humor that would bait the consciousness,” these poems tenderly, vulnerably, and fearlessly sequence threads of familial bonds, heredity, and Indigenous identity. With a captivating and conversant voice, m.s. RedCherries maps the intersections of the historical with the personal and deftly binds the two like strands of DNA, creating the spark of life that courses through this vital work.
