birth_place ethnicity birth_date article_title name occupation alma_mater
spokane , washington bitterroot salish 03 august 1957 debra magpie earling
 debra magpie earling novelist english professor , short story writer , university of montana university in fiction writing , cornell university of washington ; ma in english , mfa
debra magpie earling

debra cecille magpie earling -lrb- born august 3 , 1957 spokane , washington -rrb- is a native american novelist , and short story writer .
she is the author of `` perma red '' and `` the lost journals of sacajewea '' , which was on display at the missoula museum of art in late 2011 .
her work has also appeared in `` ploughshares '' and the `` northeast indian quarterly . ''
