In a 2012 piece for n+1, senior editor Elizabeth Gumport wrote "What united the Native Agents authors was the way their work combined elements of theory, fiction, and biography, explicitly refusing to identify absolutely with any single genre."
In a 2012 piece published in n+1 magazine, senior editor Elizabeth Gumport stated that what connected the Native Agents authors was their use of elements from theory, fiction, and biography, while simultaneously refusing to be confined to any one specific genre.