ADRIAN C. LOUIS (1946–2018) was born and raised in Nevada and was an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. Louis has written eight books of poems, including Fire Water World, winner of the 1989 Poetry Center Book Award from San Francisco State University, and he is the author of two works of fiction: Skins, a novel that turned motion, and a collection of short stories, Wild Indians & Other Creatures. Louis has won various writing awards, among them a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. In 1999, he was elected to the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. He taught and Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota and at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota.