Cliff Taylor, an enrolled member of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, is an award winning writer, poet, speaker, and storyteller. He is the author of two memoirs, "The Memory of Souls" (2020) and "The Shining Hands of My Ponca Ancestors" (2025, North Dakota State University Press), and two poetry collections, "The Native Who Never Left" (2023) and "Notes of an Indigenous Futurist" (2024, Hema Press). Taylor was a recipient of the Great Plains Emerging Tribal Writer Award from South Dakota State University in 2016 and strives to be a voice for the Ponca culture. A Nebraskan through and through, he currently resides in Astoria, Oregon, with his partner Aislinn.