Tyler Dettloff is an Anishinaabe Métis, Italian, and Irish writer, professor, musician, gardener, and water protector raised on the edge of the Delirium Wilderness. He currently lives in Gnoozhekaaning (Bay Mills, Michigan) and teaches College Composition at Lake Superior State University. His debut poetry chapbook Belly-Up Rosehip: A Tongue Blue with Mud Songs was published by Swimming with Elephants Publications in August 2019. Mostly, Tyler enjoys walking along rivers with his wife Daraka and daughter Meadow and through swamps with his dogs Banjo and Fiddle.