Ralph Salisbury is of English-Irish-American Indian descent. His writing covers themes from ecology to anti-war protest and support for world brotherhood and sisterhood. He was a volunteer in the US Air Force in WWII, and became an opponent to the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq. His father's father was a Cherokee medicine man. His paternal grandmother was a Cherokee-Shawnee story teller. A natural, self-taught musician with an eloquent voice, Salisbury's father made a living as a traveling minstrel before settling on the Iowa farm, where Salisbury was born.
Collections
Ghost Grapefruit (poems) (1972)
The Last Rattlesnake Throw (1998)
Rainbows of Stone (poems) (2000)
War in the Genes (poems) (2006)
Blind Pumper At the Well (poems) (2008)
Light from a Bullet Hole (poems) (2009)
The Indian Who Bombed Berlin (2009)
The Last Rattlesnake Throw (1998)
Rainbows of Stone (poems) (2000)
War in the Genes (poems) (2006)
Blind Pumper At the Well (poems) (2008)
Light from a Bullet Hole (poems) (2009)
The Indian Who Bombed Berlin (2009)
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Ralph Salisbury
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
(Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, book 12)
edited by
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling