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Among many notable non-fiction presentations, Jim Reese and Pamela Todd will present a session on teaching writing in the prison system. Since 2008, Reese has been the National Endowment for the Arts Writer-in-Residence at the Yankton Federal Prison Camp, and Todd received a grant from the Illinois Arts Council to teach journal writing in a women’s prison.
Todd’s latest book, The Blind Faith Hotel, is a young adult book that received a 2009 Green Earth Book Award from the Newton Marasco Foundation. She will join 2009 One Book South Dakota author Dan O’Brien and Linda Hasselstrom for a session on land use and prairie restoration.
Jerry Wilson’s book, Waiting for Coyote’s Call: My Eco-Memoir from the Missouri River Bluff, garnered this comment on Librarything.com, “If you hadn’t realized that every step you take in your life affects the earth, you will after reading this book. And - even better - you’ll want to do something about it.” Greg Latza, Dan O’Brien, and Craig Childs will discuss capturing the environment in photos and essays; Childs will also discuss his adventures in the wild. Memoirist Ann Daum, author of The Prairie in Her Eyes, will talk about her connection with the land.
Terri Jentz, Pete Dexter, and Craig Johnson, writers with ties to the West, will present a panel discussion about violence in the West.
Dr. Judith Peterson will speak on understanding health through art. For a look at life’s lighter side, plan to hear author and humorist Michael Perry. His books include Truck: A Love Story, and Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting. He will appear with his band, The Long Beds.
A Living Treasure
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn could be featured in nearly every track. She is a founding editor of Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies (Red Pencil Review), Professor Emerita at Eastern Washington University and has been writer-in-residence at various universities. Her fiction includes Aurelia: A Crow Creek Trilogy and The Power of Horses and Other Stories. She’s also written poetry (I Remember the Fallen Trees) and nonfiction (Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice).
A member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Cook- Lynn mentors the Oak Lake Writers’ Society, which strengthens and preserves Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota culture through culture-based writing. She has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas and the 2009 South Dakota Living Indian Treasure Award.