Kimberly Blaeser is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she teaches Creative Writing and Native American Literature. An enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe who grew up on White Earth Reservation, she is the author of three books of poetry: Trailing You, Absentee Indians and Other Poems, and Apprenticed to Justice.

Her scholarly work, Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition, was the first native-authored book-length study of an Indigenous author. Blaeser's work is widely anthologized and translated works have been included in exhibits and publications around the world, most recently in Norway and Indonesia. She is also the editor of two collections of Anishinaabe writing: Stories Migrating Home and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry. Her other creative interests include wildlife and nature photography.

Blaeser lives with her family in the woods and wetlands of rural Wisconsin where she often finds the subjects for her photography literally outside her front door. She also enjoys wilderness expeditions and spends part of every year in a remote cabin adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. Current projects include collaborating with her son and daughter on writing for children and a mixed-genre collection, Tinctures of a Family Tree.