Margaret Noodin is a poet, teacher and translator interested in the diversity and resilience of humanity in the context of a complex, living, and ever-changing universe. Her work ranges from language revitalization and pedagogy to the creation of new stories, songs and poems in Ojibwemowin, Gaeilge and French. She often writes about the work of maintaining connections to ancestors through prayer and song.

Margaret is currently Ojibwemowin Instructor for the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and lives near the reservation along the shores of Lake Superior in northeastern Minnesota. She also is faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she teaches Ojibwemowin, creative writing and Irish literature.

She is the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature and two collections of poetry in Anishinaabemowin and English: Weweni and What the Chickadee Knows. She has translated over 30 books for children into Ojibwe and continues to serve as one of the editors of www.ojibwe.net

Margaret received an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English and Linguistics from the University of Minnesota and served for a time as a Professor of English and Associate Dean of the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. 

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