Dawn Quigley, enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, North Dakota, is an assistant professor in the Education Department at St. Catherine University (St. Paul, MN). She completed her PhD at the University of Minnesota in 2018. Her website, nativereadermn.blogspot.com, offers support for educators in finding, evaluating, and implementing Native American curriculum content from an indigenous perspective. Her author website is located at https://dawnquigley.

com. In addition to her coming-of-age Young Adult novel, Apple in the Middle, Dawn has more than twenty-five published articles and poems in mainstream magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, including American Indian Quarterly; Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought; Indian Country Today; Hollywood and Vine magazine; and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Quigley is also the author of Native American Heroes, published by Scholastic Book Club.Apple in the Middle has won multiple awards, including: 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Book Honors Award; 2019 WILLA (Women Writing the West) Finalist; 2019 Independent Publisher Award, Gold Medal, Multicultural Young Adult; Winner of the 2109 Independent Press Award for Young Adult Fiction; 2018 Winner of the Moonbeam Children's Book Award for Young Adult Fiction--General.