Trace Lara Hentz

Award-winning journalist Trace L. Hentz (formerly DeMeyer) is former editor of the Pequot Times in Connecticut and editor/co-founder of Ojibwe Akiing in Wisconsin. Her writing, interviews and poetry has been published in newspapers and journals in the USA, Canada and Europe. Her first book “One Small Sacrifice: A Memoir, Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects,” was published in 2009 and a second edition in 2012.

In 2011, Trace founded Blue Hand Books as a publishing collective for other Native authors: bluehandbooks, publishing over 20 titles, most notably the stunning debut “Pointing with Lips” by Dana Lone Hill (Lakota).

She’s contributed to many acclaimed books on adoption and has been a presenter and panelist at the American Indian Workshop in Europe and numerous universities in the USA and Canada.

She was known as a JIM THORPE expert when she was asked to contribute to the anthology: OLYMPICS AT THE MILLENNIUM: POWER POLITICS AND THE GAMES 2000. (PUBLISHED BY RUTGERS PRESS)