Connie A. Jacobs has published widely on Louise Erdrich as well as Diné poets Esther G. Belin and Luci Tapahonso. She taught at Fort Lewis College, originally a military fort turned Indian boarding school, and is professor emerita at San Juan College with its one-third Native population and proximity to the Navajo Nation. Her most recent publications include co-editing Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy: Cultural and Critical Contextsand The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature.