Ibe Liebenberg is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He lives in Chico, California and works as a firefighter, and a lecturer at Chico State University. He is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in both poetry and fiction. He has been published in POETRY Magazine, The ThreePenny Review, Ecotone, North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Sugar House Review, American Journal of Poetry, and Salamander Magazine. Finalist of the James Welch Poetry contest. Winner of the Tribal College Journals Creative writing contest in both fiction and poetry. Winner of the Sowell Emerging Writers Prize for his poetry collection Birds at Night.