About Author

Jordana Finnegan is an English Instructor at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California, where she teaches contemporary American literature, Native American literature, and literature and composition courses. She earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon. Her fields of interest include Western American literature, Native American and Chicano/a literatures, and environmental nonfiction. Her article on Janet Campbell Hale’s Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter appeared in the journal Studies in American Indian Literatures 19.3 (Fall 2007).