Jack Ramey is a poet, author, performer, and English professor at Indiana University Southeast. His poetry books include "Eavesdropping in Plato's Café," "The Future Past," "Death Sings in the Choir of Light," and "Burnt Almonds." His documentary on William Blake won an Aegis award for best educational film. His article, "The Coffee Planter of St. Domingo: A Technical Manual for the Caribbean Slave Owner," examines the rhetoric of racism in the Spring 2014 issue of Technical Communication Quarterly.

As a student of anthropology at Kent State, he wrote a paper on Lewis H. Morgan's "League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee or Iroquois." Since then he has continued his lifelong fascination with the People of the Longhouse, which led to the creation of "Turtle Island." His scholarly expertise in rhetoric and creative writing, his poetic insight, and his lifelong interest in history, anthropology, and native Americans give him a unique perspective for bringing to life the inspirational story of the founding of the Iroquois Nation.

In his early years, he studied to be a priest at the Passionist Fathers Seminary, then became a member of the counterculture and read his poetry in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Eugene OR, Victoria BC, and Kent OH. His one-person show "Dark Is a Long Way: An Evening with Dylan Thomas" ran for two years at the 13th Street Theater in NYC, at the Odyssey Theater in LA, and toured the country. He taught in Stockholm for several years. On his return to America, he performed in medieval plays with the Chicago Medieval Players and often read his poetry at the Green Mill, where he was a finalist in the Chicago Slam.

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