Nanette Deetz is a Lakota/Dakota/Cherokee/German poet, journalist, educator and sometimes musician. Her poetry is published in Abya Yala to Turtle Island; A Love Anthology of Art and Poetry by Native American and Latina Women, Malinalli Press, 2012; Turning A Train of Thought Upside Down, Scarlett Tanager Press, 2012, Alameda Theme Poems, Mary Rudge, editor, 2004, 2005 & 2006, Peanut Butter Poetry Jamboree, Mary Rudge, editor, 2002-2007. She is the host of “Poetry from the Four Directions” on Alameda Community Radio and is a correspondent for the Alameda Journal and Native News Online.com. She is V.P. of the Alameda Island Poets and coordinates a monthly poetry reading at Books Inc.