David Heska Wanbli Weiden
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Professor
Department of English and the Native American and Indigenous Studies program
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
M.F.A., Institute of American Indian Arts
J.D., University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Native American literature; creative writing; fiction; creative nonfiction; Indigenous
studies; ethnic studies; law and politics
Humanities 2088
david.weiden@stonybrook.edu
- Biography
biography
David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation, is the
author of the novel Winter Counts (Ecco/HarperCollins), nominated for an Edgar Award, and winner of the Anthony, Thriller,
Lefty, Barry, Macavity, Spur, and High Plains Awards as well as the Electa Quinney
Award from the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures. The novel
was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, Indie Next pick, main selection of the Book of the Month Club, and
named as a best book of the year by numerous publications. The novel was translated
into five languages and named by Time magazine as one of the 100 best mystery and thriller novels of all time. He has short
stories in the anthologies The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories, Never Whistle at Night, Crimes Against Nature, and others. He’s the editor of the anthology Native Noir (Akashic Books), and is the editor of Native Edge, a new series of the University
of New Mexico Press specializing in Indigenous literature.
His scholarship and nonfiction have been published by the New York Times, New York University Press, Cambridge University Press, and other outlets. In 2024,
he was Indigenous Artist in Residence at Brown University and has received fellowships from PEN America, MacDowell, Ucross, Ragdale, Vermont Studio
Center, Sewanee, and Tin House. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, his law degree from
the University of Denver, and his MFA degree from the Institute of American Indian
Arts. For more information, see his website at davidweiden.com.
