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MARGARET PRESTON
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BEN RADCLIFFE Recent/notable work:
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MARC RASMUSSEN www.six-man.com Recent/notable work:
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DELPHINE RED SHIRT Recent/notable work:
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JIM REESE Jim Reese is an Associate Professor of English; Director of the Great Plains Writers' Tour at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota; and Editor-in-Chief of PADDLEFISH. Reese's poetry and prose have been widely published, most recently in New York Quarterly, Poetry East, Lips, Paterson Literary Review, Louisiana Literature Review, Connecticut Review, and elsewhere. His new book ghost on 3rd (New York Quarterly Books 2010) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in letters by New York Quarterly Books and was a Finalist for the 2010 Milt Kessler Poetry Award. Since 2008, Reese has been one of five artists-in-residence throughout the country who are part of the National Endowment for the Art's interagency initiative with Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons. Recent/notable work:
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Renee Sans Souci
With a degree in education and being a Native woman, Sans Souci combines her life experiences and creaes a process that helps students engage in their own cultural identities. By introducing interrelatedness, she creates an atmosphere for students to honor other cultural viewpoints through creative writing and spoken word. Renee is currently a Teaching Artist at Umo"ho" Nation Public School through the LIED Center for Performing Arts in partnership with the Kennedy Center and was recently selected as a member of the Nebraska Arts Council Teaching Artist Roster: Artists in Schools and Communities. As an educator, she is designing a language survival school based on Native philosophy and worldviews. Her hope is that students' learning will be enhanced through the teachings of the tribal circle and that they will gain a fuller understanding of their relationshp to the Earth and Sky. Renee will be presenting alongside Allison Hedge Coke at "Labor Poetry and the Indigenous Built World."
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GARY SCHMIDT http://us.macmillan.com/author/garyschmidt http://www.hmhbooks.com/schmidt Gary Schmidt is the author of many well-received books for young readers, including The Wednesday Wars, First Boy, and The Wonders of Donal O'Donnell. His novel Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy was both a Newbery Honor Book and a Printz Honor Book. Gary teaches writing at Calvin College and lives with his wife, author Elizabeth Stickney, and their six children on a farm in Alto, Michigan. Recent/notable work:
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JANET SHAW Recent/notable work:
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CATHY SMITH Cathy Smith, designer, historian, and scholar of the American West, with expertise in Plains Indian Art and Culture, is best known for her costumes in films such as Dances With Wolves, Geronimo, Buffalo Girls, and the Emmy-award winning Son of the Morning Star. Growing up on a cattle ranch in western South Dakota—on the border of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation—led to her relentless pursuit of the authentic West: its characters and accouterments. Cathy has written extensively, non-fiction as well as screen plays, consulted on a majority of the Western genre films of the last twelve years, created and designed authentic costumes for film, western artists, and documentaries, and lectured at museums and historical re-enactments nationwide. Recent/notable work:
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DANIELLE SOSIN Danielle Sosin is the author of the novel The Long-Shining Waters (Milkweed Editions, 2011) and Garden Primitives a collection of stories (Coffee House Press, 2000). Her fiction has been featured in the Alaska Quarterly Review, and has been recorded for National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and Iowa Public Radio’s Live From Prairie Lights. Born in 1959, she lives in Duluth, Minnesota.
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MICHAEL SPRADLIN http://www.michaelspradlin.com Michael P. Spradlin is the author of more than a dozen books for children, some of which have actually been published. He grew up in a small town in Michigan not far from the Indiana border. When not writing, he enjoys reading, traveling, spending time with his family and worrying over the fact that he really should be writing instead of doing other stuff. He lives in Michigan with his wife Kelly, son Michael, daughter Rachel and two dogs Willow and Apollo.
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CHRISTINE STEWART-NUÑEZ http://christinestewartnunez.wordpress.com/ Christine Stewart-Nuñez is the author of Keeping Them Alive (WordTech Editions 2011), Snow, Salt, Honey (Red Dragonfly Press 2011), Postcard on Parchment (ABZ Press 2008), Unbound & Branded (Finishing ine Press 2006), and The Love of Unreal Things (Finishing Line Press 2005). She teaches in the English Department at South Dakota State University. Recent/notable work:
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MARK ST. PIERRE Mark St. Pierre has lived and taught at Pine Ridge reservation for over 30 years. He is the author of Walking in the Sacred Manner and Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman’s Story. His most recent novel is Of Uncommon Birth: Dakota Sons in Vietnam. Mark has also been involved in documentary film and the Native Recording Industry. Recent/notable work:
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SUSAN TURNBULL Recent/notable work:
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ANN WEISGARBER Recent/notable work:
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CM WENDELBOE http://www.spiritroadmysteries.com In the 1970s Wendelboe worked in South Dakota towns bordering three Indian reservations. He spent the initial one-third of his career working the streets as well as assisting federal and tribal law enforcement agencies embroiled in conflicts with American Indian Movement activists in other towns and on other reservations, including Pine Ridge. He moved to Gillette, Wyoming, and found his niche, where he remained a sheriff’s deputy for over twenty-five years. He had served successful stints as police chief, tactical team member, and other supervisory roles for several agencies during his thirty-eight year career in law enforcement—yet he always has felt most proud of “working the street.” He was a patrol supervisor when he retired to pursue his vocation as a writer.
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DAVID WOLFF
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ALEXI ZENTNER http://alexizentner.com/alexizentner.com/Touch.html Alexi Zentner’s first novel, Touch, was published in Spring of 2011 in the USA by W.W. Norton. Alexi Zentner’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Slice Magazine, Orion Magazine, and other publications. His short story “Touch” was featured in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 where it was chosen as a jury favorite. Alexi Zentner was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario, and currently lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife and two daughters. He holds both Canadian and American citizenship. Recent/notable work:
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