Qwo-Li Driskill is a writer, teacher, activist, performer and the author of Walking with Ghosts: Poems (Salt Publishing). Driskill?s poetry engages themes of inheritance and healing, and is rooted in personal Cherokee Two-Spirit, queer, disabled and mixed-race experience. Hir work appears in numerous publications and s/he performs and facilitates Theatre of the Oppressed workshops throughout Turtle Island. S/he is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Texas A&M University.

S/he is the co-editor of two collections published by the University of Arizona Press: Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions is Theory, Politics, and Literature (co-edited with Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen) and Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (co-edited with Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti). Both collections are included in the series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies.

The reading is supported by the MFA Creative Writing program, the Women's Studies Department, and the Dean of Undergraduate Affairs.