Beth Piatote is a Nez Perce scholar, playwright, poet, and associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her published work includes, The Beadworkers: Stories, the play, Antikoni, and the poetry collection, Distant Water, published in 2026 by Milkweed Editions. An enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Piatote is devoted to the study of her heritage language of Nez Perce and is an Indigenous language revitalization activist, living in Berkley, California.

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