Devon Mihesuah, an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor in the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas and is the former editor of the American Indian Quarterly and the University Nebraska Press book series, “Contemporary Indigenous Issues.” A historian by training, she is the author of numerous award-winning books on Indigenous history, current issues, and novels, including Ned Christie; Choctaw Crime and Punishment, and the novels Hatak Witches, Dance of the Returned, and The Bone Picker. She recently signed a multi-book deal with Bantam/Random House for a detective series. The first, Blood Relay, will be published in October 2025. Read more from Mihesuah via her blog.