A gifted poet, writer, and storyteller, as well as a cultural and political activist, Darryl Babe Wilson earned a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona at Tucson. He is the co-editor of Surviving in Two Worlds: Contemporary Native American Voices (University of Texas Press, 1997). Darryl currently teaches Native American Studies at de Anza College in Cupertino, California, and at California State University at Hayward. The father of seven sons, he lives in San Jose, California.