Tiffany Midge is a Native American poet (enrolled member, Standing Rock Sioux). Her poetry is noted for its depiction of a self divided by differing identities, and for a strong streak of humor. In 1997, Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie

Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. is a writer, poet, filmmaker, and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American. Two of Alexie's best known works are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven , a book of short stories and Smoke Signals, a film...

 named her as among up and coming writers, but claimed that she needed to move away from the influence of his style.

She has also written short stories and erotica, including contributions to the collection Without Reservation, edited by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm is an Anishinaabe writer of mixed ancestry from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She lives and works at Neyaashiinigmiing, Cape Croker Reserve on the Saugeen Peninsula in southwestern Ontario, and in Ottawa....

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Her book Outlaws, Renegades and Saints: Diary of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed was awarded the Diane Decorah Poetry Award by the Native Writers Circle of the Americas in 1994.

Among other activities, Midge now edits the poetry section of the arts magazine The Raven Chronicles.

Books/Chapbooks

• Guiding the Stars to Their Campfire, Driving the Salmon to Their Beds (Gazoobi Tales)
• Outlaws, Renegades and Saints : Diary of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed (Greenfield Review Press)
• Animal Lore and Legend : Buffalo (Scholastic Trade).

Anthologies containing work by Tiffany Midge

• Without Reservation: Indigenous Erotica Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (Editor),

(Kegedonce).

• Growing Up Ethnic in America, by Maria M. Gillan, Jennifer Gillan (Editors),

(Viking 1998).

• Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American, by Maria M. Gillan, Jennifer Gillan (Editors),

(Viking 1998).

• A Shade of Spring, Florene Belmore (Editor), 1998.
• The Poem and the World: The Seattle Sister Cities Poetry Anthologies, Volume 4, 1998.
• Reinventing the Enemy's Language : Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America

(Edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird), W.W. Norton. (Hardcover)

Critical work on Tiffany Midge

• The Nature of Native American Poetry, by Norma Wilson (identifies Midge as part of "The New Generation")