Indian Trains is about small town Indians, about community and family, about thieves, prostitutes, train stealers, drug dealers, loners, jerks, dreaming alcoholics, and the ones who did everything but all of that. It is about an entirely new tribe: urban mixed-bloods of multiple tribes who are respectful of where their ancestors have come from but are increasingly going to Indian powwows, Indian bars, and Urban Native organizations for cultural fulfillment rather than only returning to reservations to find out who they are. They are about 70 percent of the Indian population--the truly unsung peoples of America.
 "This is a funny, sad, and powerful book. Each poem is lovely and the cumulative effect is devastating."--Sherman Alexie
 "The country between poetry and stories is where this story-singer comes from. Tales of polished obsidian. Full of night, fascinating, and frightful. Glistening and brilliant. Small enough to hold in the hand. Sharp enough to tear open the heart. I was left breathless."--Sandra Cisneros
 "Indian Trains is a marvelous, intimate poetic journey. There are hardy native families here, the immediacy of survivors and traditionalists. The incomparable images arise from worried hearts, irony, the actual centers of cultural memory. Erika Wurth writes about a woman on a leather chair, 'a revolution in her heart,' as she waits for 'metaphors to change everything.' And they do in this brave, inspired selection of poems."--Gerald Vizenor, Almost Ashore

Indian Trains

Literature & Fiction

Wurth, Erika T.

Poetry

West End Press

Fiction. Native American Studies. Erika T. Wurth's BUCKSKIN COCAINE is a wild, beautiful ride into the seedy underworld of Native American film. These are stories about men maddened by fame, actors desperate for their next buckskin gig, directors grown cynical and cruel, and dancers who leave everything behind in order to make it, only to realize at thirty that there is nothing left. Poetic and strange, Wurth's characters and vivid language will burn themselves into your mind, and linger. "This is the raw stuff, the loud stuff, the hard stuff, the true stuff. It'll infect you in a way you won't realize at first, too. Not until days later, when you can't remember if you read this or you lived it. Trust me: you did both."— Stephen Graham Jones "BUCKSKIN COCAINE is a big voicey chorus of drugs, sex, booze, movies, and most of all the drumbeat of want, need, and desire."— Kyle Minor

Buckskin Cocaine

United States

Astrophil Press

A Thousand Horses Out to Sea is a dark, feminine collection of poetry. There is song here, stomp dance and corrido and deep, sad lyricism. The poems range from prose to semi-narrative, but each one shows us a unique portrait of human life. Set mainly in desert Southwest, inside the glittering Indian city of Albuquerque, the lives in these poems are full of cruelty, beauty, and pain. This book is reveals the strange, intimate space that sex creates, and illuminates what happens when you try to reach towards something else, and transcend into beauty amidst the bruised flower of love.

A Thousand Horses Out to Sea

Mongrel Empire Press

About the Author\nErika T. Wurth's publications include two novels, CRAZY HORSES'S GIRLFRIEND (Astrophil Press, 2021) and You Who Enter Here, two collections of poetry and a collection of short stories, BUCKSKIN COCAINE (Astrophil Press, 2017). A writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, she teaches creative writing at Western Illinois University and has been a guest writer at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals including Buzzfeed, Boulevard, Lithub, The Writer's Chronicle, Bitch, Waxwing and The Kenyon Review. She will be faculty at Breadloaf in 2021, is a Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Scholar, attended the Tin House Summer Workshop, and has been chosen as a narrative artist for the Meow Wolf Denver installation. She is Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee and was raised outside of Denver.\nFiction. Native American Studies. Reissue with introduction by Isabel Quintero. Sixteen-year-old Margueritte wants out. Out of her small town, where girls get pregnant young and end up stuck, like her mom. Out of a family where her Native American mother won't leave her white, alcoholic, abusive father. Margueritte hopes if she and her cousin Jake sell enough weed, they can at least escape to Denver one day. That's when Mike comes to town. Like Margueritte, he loves to read, he's funny, and he's Indian. A coming-of-age novel about the female, urban Indian experience, CRAZY HORSE'S GIRLFRIEND is not only a gritty, unexpectedly funny, page-turning novel about a girl who just wants a little bit more--it's an instant classic.

Crazy Horse's Girlfriend (second edition)

White Horse

"This ghost story is a perfect example of new wave horror that will also satisfy fans of classic Stephen King." --Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic Erika T. Wurth's White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut novel about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit. Some people are haunted in more ways than one... Kari James, Urban Native, is a fan of heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and dive bars. She spends most of her time at her favorite spot in Denver, a bar called White Horse. There, she tries her best to ignore her past and the questions surrounding her mother who abandoned her when she was just two years old. But soon after her cousin Debby brings her a traditional bracelet that once belonged to Kari's mother, Kari starts seeing disturbing visions of her mother and a mysterious creature. When the visions refuse to go away, Kari must uncover what really happened to her mother all those years ago. Her father, permanently disabled from a car crash, can't help her. Her Auntie Squeaker seems to know something but isn't eager to give it all up at once. Debby's anxious to help, but her controlling husband keeps getting in the way. Kari's journey toward a truth long denied by both her family and law enforcement forces her to confront her dysfunctional relationships, thoughts about a friend she lost in childhood, and her desire for the one thing she's always wanted but could never have...

White Horse: A Novel

Flatiron Books

The Haunting of Room 904: A Novel

Genre Fiction

A beautifully rendered, brutally realistic Native American gang novel. Matthew has grown up in hell. His father is gone, and his mother drinks and hooks up with men who abuse Matthew and his sister. He finally decides to hit the streets of Farmington to get away and to drink himself to death―in his mind, his destiny. He meets Chris, who saves him, takes him home, cleans him up, gets him sober, and initiates Matthew into one of Albuquerque’s Native American gangs, the 505s. The 505s have been around for generations. They now sell heroin, and it’s their subservience to the Mexican gangs that has allowed them to survive. However, Chris decides that his little Native American gang deserves to be as big as the Mexican gangs in Albuquerque, bringing in new business from deep inside Indigenous communities in Mexico. Then, Matthew falls in love with Chris’s girlfriend. Matthew’s story is one of terrible darkness, but also, unexpected beauty and tenderness.

You Who Enter Here (Suny Series, Native Traces)

State University of New York Press

Margaritte is a sharp-tongued, drug-dealing, sixteen-year-old Native American floundering in a Colorado town crippled by poverty, unemployment, and drug abuse. She hates the burnout, futureless kids surrounding her and dreams that she and her unreliable new boyfriend can move far beyond the bright lights of Denver that float on the horizon before the daily suffocation of teen pregnancy eats her alive.

Crazy Horse's Girlfriend

Curbside Splendor Publishing

Features inaugural AWW Fellowship Best-in-Show winner Ashely Adams' short story "What the Water Told Us". Excerpts from the haiku web comic In Search of Basho, created by Ross Findlay & Mark "Fittsy" Fittock. One-act play by A.E. Weisgerber. Art by Daniel Torraca and Alex Duensing. Fiction by Suzzanna Matthews-Amanzio, Michael Seymour Blake, Chris Ames, AJ Atwater, Heather Sager, Tara Campbell, Kate Garklavs, Erika T. Wurth, Babak Lakghomi, Marcus Pactor, Siamak Vossoughi, Claire Hopple, Claire Polders, Hillary Leftwich, and Jen Michalski. Poetry by Amy Ash & Callista Buchen, Mary Flanagan, Ananda Lima, Noah Eli Gordon, Devon Wootten, Matt Muth, Trina Burke, Shannon Hearn, Cary Stough, Brennan Bestwick, Rob Cook, MK Chavez, Peter Longofono, Heikki Huotari, Taneum Bambrick, Jim Warner, Joe Milazzo, C.T. McGaha, Lauren Loftis, Ryan Mills, and A.M. O'Malley. Essays by Isabelle Davis and Kathryn Nuernberger. Hybrid work by Marlin M. Jenkins and Anne Riesenberg.

Heavy Feather Review Vol. 7

Nuernberger, Kathryn

Polders, Claire

Gordon, Noah Eli

Michalski, Jen

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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