Trace Lara Hentz

Poet, mosaic artist, author, blogger and award-winning journalist Trace L. Hentz (formerly DeMeyer) is former editor of the Pequot Times in Connecticut and editor/co-founder of Ojibwe Akiing in Wisconsin. Her writing, interviews and poetry has been published in newspapers and journals in the USA, Canada and Europe. Her first book “One Small Sacrifice: A Memoir, Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects,” was published in 2009 and a second edition in 2012.

In 2011, Trace founded Blue Hand Books as a publishing collective for other Native authors publishing 15 titles, most notably the stunning debut “Pointing with Lips” by Dana Lone Hill (Lakota). Two anthologies Trace co-authored and edited “Two Worlds” and “Called Home” that feature American Indian adoptees narratives. With MariJo Moore, they published an anthology “Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts Concerning the Universe” in 2013. “Sleeps with Knives” and “Becoming” (prose and short stories). Trace published using the pen-name Laramie Harlow. She’s contributed to many acclaimed books on adoption and has been a presenter and panelist at the American Indian Workshop in Europe and numerous universities in the USA and Canada. In 2014, Trace was executive producer of the Nightwolf Radio Program in Wash. DC. She taught blogging and social media at Greenfield Community College and is writing a short sci-fi fiction “Goo and Boozer” and an academic paper on Dr. Thomas Augustus Bland and his newsletter Council Fire. A mix of American Indian (Anishinaabe- Shawnee) and French Canadian-Irish, Trace is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Superior with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and lives at the foot of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts with her husband Herb.