David Heska Wanbli Weiden

David Heska Wanbli Weiden is a crime thriller fiction author who loves to describe himself as an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation. He is best known as the author of “Winter Counts,” his debut novel that he published in 2020. The novel went on to become an Editors’ Choice at the New York Times Book Review and also made the list for a Publishers Weekly Best Books in 2020. It is a Goodreads Choice Award winner, BuzzFeed Book Club November Choice, and an Indie Next Great Reads pick. Weiden is also the author of the biographical novel “Spotted Tail” published in 2019 that won the Western Writers of America Spur Award in 2020. Aside from his fiction work, Weiden has also published in “Tribal College Journal,” the “New York Times,” “Criminal Class Review,” “Shenandoah,” “Transmotion,” and “Yellow Medicine Review” among other magazines. He is also the editor of the journal of international arts and literature Anomaly. Since he loves teaching, he spends much of his time teaching an MFA program in Publishing and Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, and the Western Colorado University MFA program.