Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

Theodore C. Van Alst Jr (enrolled member, Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians) is the co-editor of best-selling Never Whistle at Night. He is author of Tillie Olsen Award Winning Sacred Smokes (2018, now in its third printing), Electa Quinney Award Winning Sacred City (2021), and Sacred Folks (2024) as well as the editor of The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones (2015), all from the University of New Mexico Press. He is the author of Pour One for the Devil (2024) from Lanternfish Press. His debut novel, The El, was published by Vintage/Penguin Random House in 2025 and received the 2025 Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction. His work has appeared in Southwest Review, The Rumpus, Red Earth Review, The Journal of Working-Class Studies, Chicago Review, Electric Literature, and Indian Country Today, among others.