Collection of Short Stories
Buckskin Cocaine
Erika T. Wurth’s Buckskin Cocaine is a wild, beautiful ride into the seedy underworld of Native American film. These are stories about men maddened by fame, actors desperate for their next buckskin gig, directors grown cynical and cruel, and dancers who leave everything behind in order to make it, only to realize at thirty that there is nothing left. Poetic and strange, Wurth’s characters and vivid language will burn themselves into your mind, and linger.
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Collections of Poetry
A Thousand Horses Out to Sea
A Thousand Horses Out to Sea is a dark, feminine collection of poetry. There is song here, stomp dance and corrido and deep, sad lyricism. The poems range from prose to semi-narrative, but each one shows us a unique portrait of human life. Set mainly in desert Southwest, inside the glittering Indian city of Albuquerque, the lives in these poems are full of cruelty, beauty, and pain. This book is reveals the strange, intimate space that sex creates, and illuminates what happens when you try to reach towards something else, and transcend into beauty amidst the bruised flower of love.
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Indian Trains
Indian Trains is about small town Indians, about community and family, about thieves, prostitutes, train stealers, drug dealers, loners, jerks, dreaming alcoholics, and the ones who did everything but all of that. It is about an entirely new tribe: urban mixed-bloods of multiple tribes who are respectful of where their ancestors have come from but are increasingly going to Indian powwows, Indian bars, and Urban Native organizations for cultural fulfillment rather than only returning to reservations to find out who they are. They are about 70 percent of the Indian population–the truly unsung peoples of America.
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Stories
Almost Like Children – Heavy Feather Review, 2016
Harlen Kurjo – South Dakota Review, 2016
Beautiful, Terrible Thing – Sententiabooks
Mason Snap – Literary Orphans
Wild, Animal Love – The Missing Slate
Kes Woodi – Contrary Magazine
Candy Francois – Split Lip Magazine
Freightrain – Southern California Review
Crazyhorse’s Girlfriend (short story version) – Stand Magazine
Colfax with the Sound Off – Bryant Literary Review
Redbone – Bryant Literary Review
How Ed Learned to Dance – Fiction Magazine
Whitehorse Love (short Story version) – Fiction Magazine
The Walker – The Raven Chronicles
Non-Fiction
The Dakota Access Pipeline, Running Through the Heart of Native American Invisibility – Apoge Journal, 2016
The Fourth Wave in Native American Fiction – The Writer’s Chronicle, 2016
The Fourth Wave – Waxwing, 2016
Introduction to Pariahs (anthology) – 2016
Native Art, Here We are, Where are We – Feminism for the Real World (anthology), 2016
Assimilation Makes us Sooo Happy – Guest blogger for Write all the Words!, 2015
Twenty-first Century Tiger Lily: Native Chicks and the F-Bomb – Four Winds Magazine, 2015
Dear Teen Me – Dear Teen Me, 2014
Weirdos, Writers and the Non-Crisis Mid-Twenties Crisis – Fulcrum Books
“Albuquerque and the Indian: Our Perception of Native Americans Needs to Change” – Alibi, 2014.
“Why We Need Diverse Books” – Publisher’s Weekly, 2014.
“Moving Towards Justice: New federal law addresses violence in Indian Country” – Alibi, 2014
“Mass Graves and the Impending Border Crisis” – Alibi, 2014.
“In-State Tuition for Natives about Fairness” – Boulder Camera, 2014.
Poems
Your Eyes to the Sun – Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art, forthcoming.
Beasts at Her Feet –Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art, forthcoming.
Arcing Towards the Sun – Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, forthcoming.
Cold and Tired Wind – Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, forthcoming.
Distant as a Planet – Hysteria, forthcoming.
Wild Blue Glory – Hysteria, forthcoming.
Ghosts Floating on the Flat White Bed – Rabbit and Rose, 2015.
Around My Neck – About Place, 2015.
That Small Wooden Box – Tin Cannon, 2015.
Long, Yellow and Stretching Lazily – Tin Cannon, 2015.
On North Beach – Toe Good Poetry
Faces Toward the Light – The Mas Tequila Review #7
Change From Behind Me – The Mas Tequila Review #7
Fists Clenched, Holding – As Us Journal
He Brought Me Down – As Us Journal
Dusty Redemption – Yellow Medicine Review
Smoke Billowing – Yellow Medicine Review
Receding Like the Wilderness in the Night – Cimarron Review
Until the Sun Rises – Drunken Boat
Like a Phoenix – The Florida Review
Oh, Cousin – New Poets of the American West
It’s 1966 – Red Ink Magazine
What I Know is the Fight – Lost Horse Press
Pressing Mattresses to Walls – 5AM Poetry
As Innocent as your Mother and Mine – 5AM Poetry
Fort Peck Girl – Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
Colfax Reservation Television – Boulevard Magazine
(Re)Naming Me – University of Nebraska Press
Raven Gets a Kick out of You – American Indian Culture and Research Journal
Pastels Swimming Together – American Indian Culture and Research Journal