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The American Indian poet known as Luke Warm Water was born and raised in Rapid City, South Dakota, and is an Oglala Lakota (Sioux). Luke has featured at poetry venues throughout the United States and in Europe, and has won Poetry Slam competitions from Oregon to Germany. Since 2005, Luke has been awarded three grants for his poetry endeavors. Recent poetry books are Iktomi’s Uprising (2007) and On Indian Time (2005). Luke currently resides in northern California.

“Luke Warm Water’s poems are sprinkled with dry sarcasm and dark wit as he pulls the reader, often uncomfortably, through bitter sweetly tragic stories told in rhythmic, upbeat, casual prose. [He] brings into the light the funny and often awkward juxtaposition of modern and traditional Indian culture met with white urban and suburban worlds”

– Amethyst Thorpe, Lakota Journal (November 2007)