Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She spent seven years working as a policy advisor in the Obama Administration, focusing on homelessness and Native policy. In addition to an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Denmark. She currently teaches public policy at the University of Iowa.

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She was awarded the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2023. Her debut nonfiction book, The Indian Card, is available wherever books are sold.

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(photo: Jess Barnett)