Eric Gansworth (Onondaga) is Lowery Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. He was born and raised at the Tuscarora Nation. The author of eight books, including the PEN Oakland Award winning MENDING SKINS, and A HALF-LIFE OF CARDIO-PULMONARY FUNCTION, (National Book Critics Circle's "Good Reads List" for Spring 2008). Gansworth is also a visual artist, and generally incorporates paintings as integral elements.

In 2008, his first full length dramatic work, RE-CREATION STORY, was part of the Public Theater's Native Theater Festival, in NYC. His work has been widely shown and anthologized and has appeared in THE KENYON REVIEW, SHENANDOAH, THE BOSTON REVIEW, PROVINCETOWN ARTS, STONE CANOE, POETRY INTERNATIONAL, THIRD COAST, and THE YELLOW MEDICINE REVIEW, among others. His most recent books are FROM THE WESTERN DOOR TO THE LOWER WEST SIDE, a poetry collaboration with social-documentary photographer, Milton Rogovin, and EXTRA INDIANS, a novel.