About the Author

MG Salazar is a writer, performer, and the curator/owner of a vintage clothing shop, The Skullery Maid, which opened last year. They write regularly for KCUR 89.3, Kansas City's flagship NPR station, present the quarterly show Cinema Cabaliste, which features the best in silent film and live performance, and currently appear as a subject in the HBO documentary Abortion: Stories Women Tell. A lifelong activist for equality and justice, Salazar twice traveled to Standing Rock during the winter of 2016-2017 to stand as a water protector at the Oceti Sakowin Camp. Striking the Black Snake: Poems from Standing Rock follows their debut book, If You See My Ghosts Like I Do (Spartan Press 2016).