About Sacred Folks

Sacred Folks (University of New Mexico Press) brings it all home in the final book of Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.’s urban Native Chicago story cycle. Disciples, demons, gods, gangbangers, and the city itself all meet up to tell unforgettable tales across time and neighborhoods. Our guide through the trilogy, Teddy, is right in the thick of things, and he recounts for us parts of the path to the end and explains how and maybe why we got here and where we might go after all.

About Theodore Van Alst

Theodore is the author of the Sacred trilogy, of which Sacred Smokes and Sacred City are the first two installments, and the gothic novella Pour One for the Devil. He is also the coeditor of the national bestseller Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology and creative editor for Transmotion (a journal of postmodern Indigenous studies). His fiction and photography have been published in The Raven Chronicles, Red Earth Review, The Journal of Working-Class Studies, Unnerving Magazine, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and Yellow Medicine Review, among others.

Theodore C. Van Alst is Professor and Chair of Indigenous Nations Studies and Director of the School of Gender Race and Nations at Portland State University.