Teresa Peterson (Upper Sioux Community) is author of Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden. She and her uncle, Super LaBatte co-authored Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stores and Storytellers. Peterson is also the author of the children’s book Grasshopper Girl, has poetry in The Racism Issue of the Yellow Medicine Review, and is a contributor in the anthology, Voices Rising: Native Women Writers. Her true passion is digging in her garden that overlooks the Mni Sota River valley and feeding friends and family.