Dawn Quigley is an author and educator. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of

Ojibwe The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabe people in what is currently southern Canada, the northern Midwestern United States, and Northern Plains. According to the U.S. census, in the United States Ojibwe people are one of ...

, North Dakota. Her first book, '' Apple in the Middle'', was nominated for the American Indian Youth Literature Award and the

WILLA Literary Award WILLA Literary Award honors outstanding literature featuring women's stories, set in the Western United States, published each year. Women Writing the West (WWW), a non-profit association of writers and other professionals writing and promoting the ...

Career

Quigley attended the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

, where she received a

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degree in English, a

Master of Education The Master of Education (MEd or M.Ed. or Ed.M.; Latin ''Magister Educationis'' or ''Educationis Magister'') is a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. This degree in education often includes the following majors: curriculum a ...

degree and

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degree in Curriculum and Instruction, as well as middle school endorsements in Math and English Language Arts. She also received certificates in K–6 Elementary Education and K–12 Literacy from

Augsburg College Augsburg University is a private university in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It was founded in 1869 as a Norwegian-American Lutheran seminary known as Augsburg Seminarium. Today, the u ...

. Quigley taught English Language Arts in K–12 schools for 18 years and was an Indian Education program co-director. She is currently an assistant professor at

St. Catherine University St. Catherine University (St. Kate's) is a private Catholic university in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was established as one of the first institutions of higher learning specifically for women in the Midwest and was known as the College of St. C ...

, where she teaches in the Education Department. Her research interests lie in teacher education, Native American literature, and Indigenous research methods. Her scholarly writing has been published in ''

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'' and ''

American Indian Quarterly The ''American Indian Quarterly'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies on the indigenous peoples of North and South America. It is published by the University of Nebraska Press and was established in 1974. The editor-in-c ...

''.

Publications

* '' Apple in the Middle,'' published August 2, 2018 by North Dakota State University Press **

American Indian Youth Literature Award The ''American Indian Library Association American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United ...

nominee (2020) **

for Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction nominee (2019) **

North Dakota Library Association The North Dakota Library Association (NDLA) is a professional association for librarians, library staff, and library supporters that represent school, public, academic, and special libraries located in North Dakota, United States. "The purpose o ...

's Flicker Tales nominee (2020) **

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nominee (2020) ** Independent Press Award for Young Adult Fiction winner (2019) ** Moonbeam Gold Award winner (2018) * ''Native American Heroes'', published 2019 by Scholastic * '' Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids'', published February 9, 2021 by

Heartdrum Heartdrum is a publishing imprint of the English-language publishing house HarperCollins that specializes in children's books by North American Indigenous authors. Audience Heartdrum was launched in 2019 and is an imprint of the American publi ...

* '' Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-be Best Friend'', illustrated by Tara Audibert, published May 11, 2021 by

* '' Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants'', expected to be published May 10, 2022 by

References

External links

Official website
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