Dawn Quigley

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Dawn Quigley is an author and educator. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, North Dakota. [1]

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Her first book, Apple in the Middle , was nominated for the American Indian Youth Literature Award [2] and the WILLA Literary Award. [3]

Career

Quigley attended the University of Minnesota, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, a Master of Education degree and Doctor of Philosophy degree in Curriculum and Instruction, as well as middle school endorsements in Math and English Language Arts. [4] She also received certificates in K–6 Elementary Education and K–12 Literacy from Augsburg College. [4]

Quigley taught English Language Arts in K–12 schools for 18 years and was an Indian Education program co-director. She is currently an assistant professor at St. Catherine University, where she teaches in the Education Department. [4] Her research interests lie in teacher education, Native American literature, and Indigenous research methods. [4] Her scholarly writing has been published in Social Identities [5] and American Indian Quarterly . [6]

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