Mabel Picotte is Ihunktowan and Ogalala Sioux. She attained her B.A. in English with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, Morris. She is employed by the East Dakota Educational Cooperation at the Chamberlain Academy site in South Dakota where she teaches high school level Language Arts, Readers Theatre and Native American Studies. Mabel has published poems in Bluffton College's Shalith, and Dakota Wesleyan University's Prairie Winds, and South Dakota State Poetry Society's Pasque Petels. She was the featured poet of the 2010 Darkling Magazine a South Dakota based literary journal.