Denise Sweet is an Anishinaabe poet.
From 2004 to 2008, she served as the Wisconsin Poet Laureate.
Sweet grew up in Minnesota and is an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.
[1] Sweet was educated at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and taught creative writing, literature, and mythology at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
She also taught a travel seminar in the Yucatán Peninsula and Guatemala where she did fieldwork among the Maya peoples.