Bruchac, Joseph: - Joseph Bruchac is the multiple award-winning author of over 180 books. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in hundreds of publications over the past five decades, from The Paris Review, National Geographic, American Poetry Review, and Smithsonian to Parabola, Akwesasne Notes, Epoch, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He is co-author with Michael Caduto of the million-selling Keepers of the Earth series. An enrolled member of the Nulhegan Abenaki Nation, he and his sons James and Jesse work extensively in programs to preserve and teach Native traditions and language at their Ndakinna Education Center (www.ndakinnacenter.org) in Greenfield Center, New York.