Ron Welburn
Ron Welburn, from southeastern Pennsylvania, is of Accomac Cherokee and Lenape descent. His poems have recently appeared in The Common (print and online); Last Stanza, and Brilliant Corners, and his seventh collection of poems is Council Decisions: Revised and Expanded Edition (Bowman Books/Greenfield Review Press, 2012). In 2017 he was a returning participant at the 25th Anniversary of the Returning the Gift Native and Indigenous Literary Festival at Oklahoma University. He is now an emeritus professor in the English department at UMass Amherst where he taught American literatures, American studies, Native American studies, and critical writing.