Llawren Bird hesitates when asked, "Where are you from; what do you do?" Though she now lives in the rural Pacific Northwest, she was born in Kansas, spent her early years on the reservation in North Dakota, graduated from high school in eastern Montana and attended college and university in Colorado. She's worked in Denver, Los Angeles, Guadalajara, and in many smaller, found communities. Her background extends from agriculture to advertising, college teaching and volunteering on behalf of the disenfranchised. A generalist, she moves through shifting paradigms as a contemporary and writes it down, telling the truth as she finds it in fiction, and only in fiction. She wouldn't write a memoir if you paid her.