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JUNE HARVEY Recent/notable work:
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ALLISON HEDGE COKE Allison Hedge Coke has been an invitational featured performer in international poetry festivals in Medellin, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Canada, and Jordan and foreign professional in poetry and writing for Shandong University in Wei Hai, China. An Award-winning American Book author, she currently holds the Reynolds Chair of Poetry and Writing at the University of Nebraska, Kearney where she directs the Reynolds Series and Sandhill Crane Migration Retreat, and was recently awarded a Lannan Writing Residency at Marfa. Hedge Coke has edited five additional collections and is editing two new book series of emerging Indigenous writing. Hedge Coke has continually taught various creative writing, literature, cultural philosophy, Native American Studies, education, and other courses for pre-school, K-12, college, university, and professional institutions since 1979. Recent/notable work:
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PATRICK HICKS Patrick Hicks is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Finding the Gossamer (2008), This London (2010), and he is also the editor of A Harvest of Words: Contemporary South Dakota Poetry (2010). His work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Virginia Quarterly Review, Natural Bridge, New Ohio Review, and many others. His stories have been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize and he is the recipient of a number of grants, including one from the Bush Artist Foundation to support work on his first novel, which is about Auschwitz. He lives in South Dakota where he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College.
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| CRAIG HOWE, LYDIA WHIRLWIND SOLDIER, and LANNIKO L. LEE, editors
Since 1993, the Oak Lake Writers’ Society has endeavored to strengthen and preserve Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota cultures through the development of culture-based writing. In a fall 2011 release, they
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CRAIG JOHNSON http://www.craigallenjohnson.com New York Times Bestselling author Craig Johnson has received high praise for his Sheriff Walt Longmire novels: The Cold Dish, Death Without Company, Kindness Goes Unpunished, Another Man's Moccasins, The Dark Horse, and Junkyard Dogs. Each has been a Booksense/IndieNext pick with The Cold Dish and The Dark Horse both DILYS award finalists and Death Without Company the Wyoming Historical Association's Book of the Year. Another Man's Moccasins received the Western Writers of America Spur Award for best novel of 2008 as well as the Mountains and Plains award for fiction book of the year. Johnson's novels have been translated into numerous languages and have won the Le Prix du Polar Nouvel Observateur/Bibliobs, and the Le Prix 813. The books are now being produced as a television series for 2012 entitled Longmire for the A&E Network starring Robert Taylor, Lou Diamond Phillips and Katee Sackoff. Warner Horizon is the studio and Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Greer Shephard and Michael Robin (The Shephard/Robin Company) are excutive producing alongside writers John Coveny and Hunt Baldwin. Craig lives in Ucross, WY, population 25.
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MARILYN JOHNSON Marilyn Johnson is the author of two books: This Book Is Overdue!, about librarians and archivists in the digital age, and The Dead Beat, about the art of obituaries and obituary writers. She is a former editor and staff writer for Life and other magazines, and lives with her family in New York.
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SUZANNE JULIN
An award-winning author, Suzanne Julin received her Ph.D. from Washington State University in Pullman. She currently works as a public historian for local, state, and national organizations, specializing in twentieth-century South Dakota and western history. Her interest in Black Hills tourism was first kindled when she was only eleven on her family’s first vacation trip out from southeastern South Dakota.
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BRUCE JUNEK & TASS THACKER http://www.imagesoftheworld.com Explorers, authors and photographers Bruce B. Junek and Tass Thacker have spent 34 years traveling through the world's most exotic places. The Road of Dreams is the story of their two-year around-the-world bicycle trip. Andes to the Amazon, chronicles adventures from seven different journeys in Mexico, Central and South America. The husband and wife team have also bicycled through southern Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. They plan to bicycle through China in 2011. More than 1.5 million students have seen the slide programs from their travels.
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SAM KEAN Sam Kean spent years collecting mercury from broken thermometers as a kid, and now he’s a writer in Washington, D.C. His stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, Smithsonian Air & Space, and The New Scientist, among other places. He currently works as a correspondent for Science magazine. He has worked on fellowships in the United States and Europe, and was the national runner-up in the National Association of Science Writer’s award for best young science writer. The Disappearing Spoon is his first book.
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MARY KOPCO
Mary A. Kopco is the director of the Adams Museum & House, Inc. in Deadwood. She earned her M.A. in history from James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and has been employed in the museum field for over 25 years. She was recognized with three Emmy certificates for providing historical research for the HBO® series Deadwood. Kopco’s book The Adams House Revealed was published in 2006. She edited and wrote an introduction for the South Dakota Historical Society Press anthology Beyond Mount Rushmore: Other Black Hills Faces in 2010.
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MARILYN KRATZ
Marilyn Kratz has had over 535 stories, poems, and articles published in over 80 magazines, mostly children's magazines such as Highlights for Children and National Wildlife Federation and Cricket group magazines. She is a regular contributor to Living Here magazine and writes a nostalgia column for a weekly Yankton paper, The Observer. She has had two picture books, a pictorial history book, and a non-fiction children's book published. She is a retired elementary teacher and member of SCBWI.
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ERNIE LaPOINTE
Ernie LaPointe was born in 1948 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. Ernie is a Sun Dancer and lives the traditional way of the Lakota and follows the rules of the sacred pipe. In 1992, Ernie spoke at the induction of Sitting Bull into the Hall of Fame of American Indian Chiefs in Oklahoma. Since then, he had numerous invitations from Crazy Horse Memorial, South Dakota and the Little Bighorn Battlefield, Montana to speak about his heritage. Ernie’s book Sitting Bull His Life and Legacy was published in August 2009 by Gibbs Smith Publishing.
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LT. COL. GEORGE A. LARSON
Lt. Col. (Ret.) George A. Larson served as a strategic intelligence officer with the Strategic Air Command, Defense Intelligence Agency, Pacific Air Forces, Alternate National Military Command Center as well as Commandant of Cadets with Air Training Command's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Iowa. He has written four books and over 300 magazine articles on military history, aviation, naval and general history.
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WALTER LITTLEMOON & JANE RIDGWAY
Born in 1942, to a Lakota father and Northern Cheyenne mother, Walter Littlemoon grew up and lives now in Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. For many years he sought solutions to the cross-generational defeat and depression ensuing from historical policies. Whether through bringing supplies and encouragement, offering drug and alcohol abuse counseling, establishing Denver’s Tiyospaye Crisis Center, speaking cross-country, or serving as Wounded Knee District President, Walter tried to help his people. In his memoir, he offers a resident’s view of the 1973 American Indian Movement’s occupation of Wounded Knee and its lasting impact on his community. He shares the unburdening relief it gives to have a name for the hopeless “thick, dark fog” that haunted him for over sixty years – Complex Post Traumatic Stress.
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MERLYN MAGNER
Merlyn Magner was born in Flint, Michigan in 1952. At the age of seven she and her family moved to Rapid City, South Dakota where her father worked in broadcasting. Magner graduated from Stevens High School in 1970. She received her degree in Humanities and Art History from West Los Angeles College before working in the corporate travel industry. She returned home to the Black Hills in the winter of 2007 and began work on this, her first, book. She currently resides in the Ozark Mountains.
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BARBARA MARSHAK Barbara Marshak is the author of Hidden Heritage: The Story of Paul LaRoche, the inspiring biography of the acclaimed Native American recording artist. Barbara is also a freelance writer with over 100 published stories and articles. Her work can be found in several anthologies such as Groovy Chicks, Cup of Comfort, Blessings for Mothers, and God’s Way. She has also written articles for national and regional periodicals such as Guideposts, Minnesota Monthly, and Lake Country Journal. In 2008 Barbara was one of two writers selected for the Bearlodge Writers Devils Tower National Monument Writer’s Residency in Wyoming. Barbara is a member of The Loft, Backspace, and Authors Den, and lives in Minnesota.
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BRENDA K. MARSHALL http://www.brendamarshallauthor.com Brenda Marshall was born on a farm in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota, and grew up climbing trees, riding her pony, and daydreaming under a wide prairie sky. She left North Dakota after college, and has since lived in Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Washington, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and for the past fourteen years, Michigan. Brenda has Ph.D. in English, and teaches part‐time in the English Department at the University of Michigan. Dakota, Or What’s a Heaven For is her second novel. Her first novel, Mavis, was published in 1996. She also has published a book of scholarship, Teaching the Postmodern: Fiction and Theory. No matter where she is living or what she is doing, Brenda thinks of herself as a North Dakotan.
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JOSEPH MARSHALL III http://www.thunderdreamers.com Joseph Marshall III was born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation and is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) tribe. Because he was raised in a traditional Lakota household by his maternal grandparents, his first language is Lakota. Joseph taught at the high school and college levels, and developed native studies curriculum as well. Now he writes full time, having published nine nonfiction works, three novels, a collection of short stories and essays, and has written several screenplays. One of his most treasured and meaningful experiences was to be one of the founders of Sinte Gleska University (1971) on the Rosebud Reservation. As a speaker and lecturer he has appeared in many venues throughout the United States and in countries such as France, Sweden, and Siberia. Joseph and his wife Connie (also his literary agent and manger) are the parents of a blended family of nine, and have sixteen grandchildren.
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CHRIS McDOUGALL Christopher McDougall won the Clarion Award in 2002 and became fluent in Spanish and Portuguese as an overseas correspondent for the Associated Press, spending months in Africa reporting on the massacres in Rwanda and frontline fighting in Angola. He is now a contributing editor for Men’s Health. A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Men's Journal, andNew York. He does his own running among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania.
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DON MONTILEAUX Don Montileaux is world-renowned artist and illustrator and is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe. He has received nearly 20 awards and commissions and attended over 25 major art shows throughout his artistic career. His art is illustrated on the cover of six books, work is included in numerous private collections as well as public, and has been featured artist in art galleries in New Mexico, Minnesota, Arizona, Colorado, as well as South Dakota.
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CHARLES NAUMAN Charles Nauman's poetry has recently appeared in Perigee and in the acclaimed A Cadence of Hooves anthology. His creative non-fiction has been published in the Iowa Review, and his novel, Pola, was published by Plain View Press in March 2011. As a film writer and director, Nauman's films have ranged from the feature, Johnny Vik (honored at Cannes, Locarno and the Prix L'Age D'Or in Brussels) to the experimental Sitting Bull's Bones with Stan Brakhage. His Tahtonka was an American Film Festival Blue Ribbon winner and the "Critic's Choice" for a BBC-TV reprise. Nauman and his wife, Grete Bodøgaard, a tapestry artist, live part time in Norway and part time at their live-in-studio, a renovated bank building, in South Dakota.
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KENT NERBURN Kent Nerburn was born and raised near Minneapolis. After high school he went to the University of Minnesota in American Studies, then to Stanford University in Religious Studies and Humanities, then to Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where he received a Ph.D. in conjunction with the University of California at Berkeley. His doctorate was in Religious Studies and after returning to Minnesota, he moved north to the pine and lake country near the Canadian border, where he got married and has lived ever since. For several years he worked on the Red Lake Ojibwe reservation helping students collect the memories of the tribal elders. This changed his life and introduced him to the native spiritual traditions that have become so central to the message in his writings.
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