Darryl Babe Wilson is an instructor at San Francisco State University, where he teaches Native American oral literature, and also at Foothill College in Palo Alto, California, where he teaches English. His publications include a collection of his poetry entitled Waves Upon the Ocean of Time and his autobiography, The Morning the Sun Went Down. His mother belongs to the Iss tribe in northeastern California, and his father is from the Aw’te tribe, also in northeastern California.