Dean Rader has published widely in the fields of poetry, American Indian studies, and popular culture. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, judged by Claudia Keelan. In 2009, Kelly Cherry selected his poem "Hesiod in Oklahoma, 1934" for the prestigious Sow's Ear Poetry Prize. Other poems have appeared in Cincinnati Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, Quarterly West, Colorado Review, Poet Lore, The MacGuffin, Connecticut Review, POOL, Borderlands, and many others. His poem "Twilight at Ocean Beach: 14" was named by Verse Daily as one of the Best Poems of 2010. He is the author of a best-selling textbook on writing and popular culture, The World is a Text (with Jonathan Silverman), which just went into its fourth edition. With poet Janice Gould, he co-edited Speak To Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2003), the first collection of essays devoted to Native American poetry. Most recently, he curated a special issue of Sentence devoted to American Indian prose poetry. His newest scholarly book, Engaged Resistance: Contemporary American Indian Art, Literature, and Film is forthcoming in 2011 from the University of Texas Press.Rader also writes a regular column for the San Francisco Chronicle, where he began the now famous 10 Greatest Poets project.He is a professor of English at the University of San Francisco and a recipient of USF's Distinguished Research Award for 2010.