Jennifer Greene
Jennifer Greene lives on the Flathead Reservation in Montana where she was born and raised. Her book of poetry entitled What I Keep was the winner of the 1998 North American Native Authors Poetry Award. She's won first-place awards from the Native American Journalists Association for feature writing. Her writing appeared on a CD entitled Heart of the Bitterroot: Voices of Salish and Pend d'Orielle Women which was nominated for a Native American Music Award in 2008. In 2010, Jennifer won a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers in the Adult Fiction category for an article that appeared in Teaching Tolerance magazine. Her latest collection of poetry, published by Foothills Publishing, is entitled What Lasts. She received the 2010 Menada Literary Prize at Ditët e Naimit, the Albanian Poetry Festival in Macedonia. Jennifer is Salish and Chippewa-Cree and a member of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes. She's married and has three children. Jennifer teaches, works on history projects, and writes.