Another Attempt at Rescue by M. L. Smoker

M.L Smoker is a teacher and administrator on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana, home of the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes. She is an enrolled member of both tribes. She holds a BA from Pepperdine University and an MFA from the University of Montana and also attended the University of Colorado and UCLA. Among her honors were the Richard Hugo Scholarship at Montana and the Arianna and Hannah Yellow Thunder Scholarship at UCLA. This is her first book of poems.

"M.L. Smoker's poems are tough, funny, magical, but not in a goofy way. This is blue-collar magic. Unemployed magic. Living on government cheese magic. I highly recommend this collection."

— Sherman Alexie.