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Debra Magpie Earling is an American novelist and short story writer. She was born on August 3, 1957 in Spokane, Washington. She is a professor of English at the University of Montana. Earling is the author of the novel Perma Red, which won the American Book Award in 2002. She has also written the short story collections The Lost Journals of Sacajawea and The Last Run. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and other publications. Earling has received numerous awards and honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a Lannan Literary Award. She was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Earling is married to the poet and novelist William Kittredge. They have two children.

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This work first began as a project during the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition and is the result of a five year collaboration between Debra Magpie Earling and artist Peter Koch. The writings are done by Earling, as Koch compiled the historical photographs. The writings, along with the photographs, hope to illustrate native women’s longstanding struggle and desire for freedom through Sacajewea.

Earling is currently a faculty member in the English Department at the University of Montana at Missoula. In 2016, she became the first Native American director of the University of Montana's creative writing program. She teaches Fiction and Native American Studies.

At 18, Earling became the first public defender in the Tribal Justice System of the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. She is a graduate of the University of Washington, and holds both an MA in English (1991) and an MFA in Fiction Writing (1992) from Cornell University.

Debra Cecille Magpie Earling (born August 3, 1957 in Spokane, Washington) is a Native American novelist, and short story writer. She is a member of the Bitterroot Salish (tribe). 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, the Northeast Indian Quarterly, and many anthologies.

Earling's first novel, Perma Red, takes place on the Flathead Indian Reservation in the 1940s. Louise White Elk, a determined and beautiful young woman, dreams of escaping and belonging. She comes of age as she is pursued by three dangerous men who will do anything to possess her—police officer Charlie Kicking Woman, the charismatic Baptiste, and Harvey Stoner, who owns nearly everything around him.