Margaret Noodin received an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is currently a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

She is the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature and two bilingual collections of poetry Weweni and Gijigijigikendan: What the Chickadee Knows. Her poems are also anthologized in numerous publications.

Her research spans translation, linguistic revitalization, indigenous ontologies, and Anishinaabe and Celtic literature. To see and hear current projects visit www.ojibwe.net where she and other students and speakers of Ojibwe have created space for language to be shared by academics and the native community.