Ralph Salisbury (1926–2017) was¿the 2015 recipient of the¿C.E.S. Wood Retrospective Award (celebrating a distinguished career in Oregon letters), ¿the Rockefeller Bellagio Award in fiction, and the Northwest Poetry Award. His most recent books are Blind Pumper at the Well, The Indian Who Bombed Berlin, and Light from a Bullet Hole. Salisbury’s thirteen books evoke his Cherokee-Shawnee-Irish-English-American heritage.¿