Nanette Bradley Deetz                                               

Nanette Bradley Deetz is a Dakota, Lakota, Cherokee and German poet and journalist who holds a BA and MA from UCLA in Theater Arts/Dance, and a second MA in Counseling Psychology. She is the co-coordinator and host of Alameda Island Poets reading series. Her poetry has been published in Alameda Island Theme Poems 2004, 2005 & 2006 (California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc); Peanut Butter Jamboree, 2002-2007 (Mary Rudge, 2007); Turtle Island to Abya Yala: A Love Anthology of Art and Poetry by Native American and Latino Women (Malinalli Press, 2011); Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2012); RED INDIAN ROAD WEST: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books 2016); INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY CURATED BY JOHN CURL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY COMMITTEE Handbook for Activists & Documentary History (2017 by IPD Press). She has been a journalist for Bay Area News Group with articles appearing in the Alameda Journal, Contra Costa times, Mercury News, East Bay Times, and Native News Online, and Indian Country Today. as well as Native Business Journal, and Bon Appetit Magazine (the Covid Issue). She has been an instructor in Special Education for the Oakland Unified School District, Berkeley Unified School District, Richmond USD, San Leandro USD, and San Lorenzo USD. She also taught for the Alameda USD. Currently she tutors for the California State Department of Rehabilitation. In 2019 she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the City of Berkeley for her poetry and activism for the Native American community