2009 Festival of Books - Official Guide by South Dakota Humanities Council

Where Readers a n d Writers Rendezvous

October 2- 4, 2009 D e a dwo od, SD www.sdbookfestival.com

CONTENTS

Where Readers a n d Writers Rendezvous

6 Events Map 8 Our Rhythms: A Tribute to Poetry

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14 Schedule of Events 19 Exhibitors at Festival Central 20 Presenters For more information visit www.sdbookfestival.com or call us at (605) 688-6113. Time and presenters listed are subject to change. Changes will be announced on www.sdbookfestival.com and will be included in the “Festival Survivor’s Guide,” a handout available at the information desk in Festival Central at the Deadwood Pavilion/ Chamber of Commerce. 3

WELCOME…

HE CITY OF DEADWOOD and the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission are pleased to once again welcome you to Deadwood, A National Landmark Community, for the South Dakota Festival of Books! We thank the South Dakota Humanities Council’s Center for the Book, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as a major partner in the Festival of Books, as well as the Deadwood Public Library, and all of the organizations and volunteers who made this book festival possible. We are eager to provide an occasion for readers to meet their favorite writers and look forward to welcoming authors and booklovers alike to our unique town. The festival, held within downtown Deadwood, is family-friendly, and sure to appeal to a wide range of interests and ages. We are confident that everyone will find something to pique his or her interest; from children’s activities, to works on history, tribal writing, non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and storytelling! South Dakota is a diverse state, with varied interests, and we are pleased to bring an equally wide-range of writers together for the Seventh Annual South Dakota Festival of Books. We look forward to having you join us for this exciting event and hope you get a chance to explore Deadwood while you are here!

Mayor Francis Toscana

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DEADWOOD

Where Readers a n d Writers Rendezvous

FESTIVAL OF BOOKS EVENT LOCATIONS A. ADAMS MUSEUM (54 Sherman St.) Event is held in the Pioneer Room. B. DEADWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (716 Main St.) Use the north entrance for the auditorium & gym. C. DEADWOOD GULCH CONVENTION CENTER (304 Cliff St.) Located on Hwy. 85 South. It will be on right side of the highway when heading south. D. DEADWOOD PAVILION/CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (761 Main St.) Main floor is Festival Central location. Concessions are available inside. E. DEADWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY (435 Williams St.) Walk up the hill on Shine St. and turn left or walk through the Franklin and exit out the back entrance on 2nd floor through the parking lot. F. DEADWOOD SOCIAL CLUB (657 Main St.) Go upstairs through the restaurant entrance or the # 10 Saloon entrance for an elevator. G. FRANKLIN HOTEL (700 Main St.) Located in the Emerald Room on the 2nd floor.

H. HOLIDAY INN CONVENTION CENTER — SPEARFISH (305 N 27th St., Spearfish) Go north out of Deadwood on Hwy. 85. Connect to Interstate 90 and travel west to Spearfish. Take exit 14 and turn right onto N. 27th St. I. HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS — DEADWOOD (22 Lee St.) Go downstairs to the Mystic Room. J. MARTIN & MASON HOTEL (33 Deadwood St.) Located in the 1898 Ballroom upstairs. K. MASONIC TEMPLE (corner of Main St. & Pine St.) L. SALOON #10 (657 Main St.) M. SILVERADO’S CLUBHOUSE (709 Main St.) Enter from Main St. at the restaurant sign, go downstairs and to your right is the meeting room. N. ST. AMBROSE CATHOLIC PARISH (760 Main St.) Enter through north door and into the Social Hall in the basement. Elevator access at the southwest entrance. O. TATANKA (100 Tatanka Dr.) Drive one mile north of Deadwood on Hwy. 85, located on the right side of the highway.

PARKING—All street parking in Deadwood is metered including the History Information Center. Miller Street parking lot and Lower Main Street parking lot are metered. Sherman Street Parking lot is free. Broadway Parking Ramp has $2 minimum and $5 maximum for 24 hours. 6 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

FESTIVAL CENTRAL

Be sure to stop by Festival Central located on the main floor of the Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce. There you will find updates to the schedule, the Early Bird Book Signing and the Exhibitors Hall. Open Friday from 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6 p.m. and again on Saturday from 9 a.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7 p.m.

FESTIVAL GUIDELINES

Please abide by the following guidelines to make this event enjoyable for all. No soliciting or distribution of flyers, literature, etc., of any kind at any festival venue without prior consent. No videotaping or tape recording. Turn cell phones and pagers off during presentations. The S.D. Festival of Books, its sponsors or venues, are not responsible for lost or stolen items. 7

OUR RHYTHMS

Our Rhythms: A Tribute to Poetry.

THE INNOVATOR AT LARGE Q UINCY TROUPE COMES to the festival after receiving the National Book award twice, and was California’s first Poet Laureate. T roupe makes being prolific look easy. His award-winning poetry has appeared in Skulls Along the River, Transcircularities, Choruses, Avalanche, a n d We a t h e r Re p o r t s . Publishers Weekly wrote Troupe “is an innovator of form and tone who shifts quickly from a lofty, elegiac mode into burlesque or smoky, jazzed-down pop phraseology.” Troupe captures the legendary Miles Davis in two much-lauded works, Miles: The Autobiography and Miles and Me. He’s also written for children, including a picture book about basketball great Magic Johnson. Troupe and Chris Gardner co-wrote Gardner ’s true rags to riches tale in The Pursuit of Happyness. In the movie version, Will Smith played Gardner.

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Marilyn Chin Returns!

LIST OF ALL of Marilyn Chin’s honors and awards would leave little space for anything else; a quick summation will have to do. She’s the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She’s been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan, has collected a number of Pushcart Prizes, received a Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, and the Paterson Prize. Chin has an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and is a professor of poetry at San Diego State University for the school’s M.F.A. program in creative writing. She has taught at workshops worldwide, and is known for her translation work, including Chinese poet Ai Qing and Gozu Yoshimasu (Japan). Chin has two books being published just in time for this year’s festival. A revised edition of her poetry collection The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty will be published by Milkweed. One reviewer called the original edition “unsentimentally courageous.” Chin’s debut novel, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen, is being released just days before the festival. Chin’s other volumes of poetry are Dwarf Bamboo and Rhapsody in Plain Yellow. Chin’s poetry reflects her activist character and has stated that she believes it is important “that poetry make something happen.” She often writes about assimilation issues; she was born in Hong Kong and came to the U.S. as a child. In one of her most-quoted poems, “How I Got That Name: An Essay on Assimilation,” she examines how Mei Ling became Marilyn because of her father’s fascination with Marilyn Monroe. The poetry track is rife with names sure to please any poetry taste. Publishers Weekly has bestowed a coveted starred review upon Wayne Miller’s Book of Props, calling the poet “one to watch” and describing the 2009 collection as “elegant” and noting that “transformations—from

Marilyn Chin and Quincy Troupe will present a poetry workshop on Friday, October 2, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The cost of the workshop is $40; call 605.688.6113 for further details. Chin will also present during the SD State Poetry Society’s tea. The group’s annual meeting is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. the everyday to the wondrous and/ or haunting—are everywhere” in this book. Three award-winning South Dakota poets, David Allan Evans, Linda Hasselstrom, and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn will offer a fascinating look at Dakota poetry. The poetry track would not be complete without readings. Melissa Kwasny will read from Reading Novalis in Montana. Jim Reese, Wayne Miller and David Allan Evans will read at afternoon sessions. Gary Westgard and Daniel Burow have studied spiritual matters for years. They will discuss their experiences in a co-presentation at the Deadwood Public Library. In “Sound and Rhythm,” Ken Waldman, “Alaska’s Fiddling Poet,” will provide participants with a look at his dual passions and talents. Waldman will also perform at Festival Central during Saturday’s lunch break.

OUR WORLD Our World: A Tribute to Non-Fiction.

The Multi-Faceted David Cross

CTOR, WR ITER AND Reese has been the National Endowment st a ndup comed ia n Da- for the Arts Writer-in-Residence at the vid Cross is probably best Yankton Federal Prison Camp, and Todd received a grant from the Illinois Arts known for his role on the TV show Arrested Devel- Council to teach journal writing in a opment. In it, Cross plays women’s prison. Todd’s latest book, The Blind Faith Dr. Tobias Fünke, a psychiatrist who loses his medical license after attempting Hotel, is a young adult book that received a 2009 Green Earth Book Award CPR on a man he assumes is dying—in fact, the man is simply overweight and from the Newton Marasco Foundation. She will join 2009 One Book South Daasleep as he sunbathes next to a pool. Needless to say, Fü n ke is a hap- kota author Dan O’Brien and Linda Hasselstrom for a session on land use and less character, and viewers watch him prairie restoration. b ou n c e f r o m o n e Marina Chavez J e r r y W i l s o n’s dead-end audition to book, Waiting for the next in his goal Coyote’s Call: My to become a worldEco -Memoir f rom renown theatre actor. the Missouri River Cross’s performance Bluff, garnered this as Fünke is legendcom ment on Librar y, and it helped ar y th i ng.com, “If t h e s h ow w i n a n you hadn’t realized Emmy in 2004 and that every step you ear n several other take in your life afnominations. fects the earth, you T h o s e w h o fel l will af ter reading in love with David this book. And - even Cross as Tobias Fün- Standup comedian David Cross better - you’ll want ke, however, might be surprised by the tone of his other to do something about it.” Greg Latza, work. Whereas Fünke is feeble and lost Dan O’Brien, and Craig Childs will discuss capturing the environment in phocharacter, standup comedian Cross is tos and essays; Childs will also discuss anything but. Commonly identified as “irrever- his adventures in the wild. Memoirist ent,” the word “brash” comes in a close Ann Daum, author of The Prairie in Her second. In fact, it is this side-splitting Eyes, will talk about her connection with and wide-ranging social satire on such the land. Terri Jentz, Pete Dexter, and Craig things as rock music, patriotism, and SUVs, that first earned Cross acclaim. Johnson, writers with ties to the West, And after distilling this blend of humor will present a panel discussion about violence in the West. into two comedy CDs, one of which was Dr. Judith Peterson will speak on unnominated for a Grammy, Cross has now derstanding health through art. For a written a book. Join him for a raucous time Friday evening when he discusses look at life’s lighter side, plan to hear his new memoir, “I Drink for a Reason.” author and humorist Michael Perry. His Among the other notable non-fiction books include Truck: A Love Story, and presentations, Jim Reese and Pamela Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and ParTodd will present a session on teaching enting. He will appear with his band, writing in the prison system. Since 2008, The Long Beds.

A LIVING TREASURE E LIZABETH 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, CookLynn 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.

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OUR YOUTH

Our Youth: A Tribute to Children’s Literature.

PRAIRIE TALES: SOUTH DAKOTA’S FAIRY TALE LEGACY THE SOUTH DAKOTA State Historical Society Press showcases the state’s children’s literature in its Prairie Tales Series. C arolyn Digby Conahan revitalized The Discontented Gopher, by L. Frank Baum, for modern readers. Dance in a Buffalo Skull is a traditional tale retold by Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, known as Zitkala-Ša. Lakota artist S. D. Nelson’s traditional art mixed with modern styles provides visual drama. The PrairieDog Prince, by Eva Katharine Gibson, is a picture book adaptation of Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch. Carolyn Digby Conahan’s wistful illustrations provide a modern character. The Racoon and the Bee Tree, by Charles Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman, will be published shortly before the festival. Rapid City artist Susan Turnbull’s illustrations bring the 1909 story ’s charm and humor to life.

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Gary Schmidt in his office.

A Craftsman at Work

ARY SCHMIDT’S meticulous approach to writing for kids puts to shame anyone who thinks it’s easy. The Wednesday Wars, Schmidt’s 2008 Newbery Honor book, unfolds during the 1967-68 school year in suburban Long Island (Schmidt grew up in Hicksville, Long Island). To ensure authenticity, Schmidt read the New York Times from September 1, 1967 to June 30, 1968. The tumult of the year – the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy, the anti-war movement and the Vietnam war – provide a rich backdrop and contribute to the plot. Holling Hoodhood, the book’s protagonist, follows the New York Mets and struggles with Shakespeare assignments. Sch m id t’s e d it or d e s c r ib e d T h e Wednesday Wars as a comedy about serious things. Its tone is different than his earlier Newbery Honor and Printz Honor book, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. Set in Maine in 1912, it focuses on small-town reaction to the friendship between a minister’s son and a girl descended from slaves. Schmidt writes picture books, folk tales, textbooks and adult spiritual books. He is mindful of his responsibilities. In a 2007 interview, Schmidt said his Newbery Honor awards haven’t changed his routine, but have given him, “this stronger sense that I better not mess around, that I’ve got

some responsibilities to my audience, and I need to take that responsibility very, very seriously because what I want to talk to them about are things like hope, and community, and you can’t be screwing around when you’re talking to kids about hope.” An English professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., Schmidt sometimes teaches Children’s Literature with Nancy Hull, who will talk about her debut historical novel, On Rough Seas, set in World War II England. Alec and his cousin cling to their capsized boat in the English Channel, but the younger boy loses his grip and disappears. Alec must deal with the consequences of taking the skiff against his father’s wishes. Obert Skye will bring his humor, fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat writing. Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra will be published shortly before the festival. Elaine Alphin’s fiction is also captivating. Award-winning illustrators Don Montileaux, S.D. Nelson, Carolyn Digby Conahan, and Susan Turnbull will present. Montileaux and Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve will discuss “Lakota Stories for Children.” Jessica Anderson, a writing instructor for the Institute of Children’s Literature, writes for magazines, anthologies, and has three books to her credit. Jill Esbaum, Linda Skeers and South Dakota writing duo Mark Meierhenry and David Volk will share their children’s books.

OUR FANTASIES Our Fantasies: A Tribute to Fiction and Storytelling.

Writing the West

S IT ACCURATE to state that this year’s fiction offerings all share one strong quality (in addition to all being darn good page turners)? At first glance, the fiction track appears to epitomize variety. The lineup presents a wide variety of authors, topics, genres, and settings. But beneath the diversity lies a commonality: a sense of place so strong that it’s almost as if each unique setting is another character. Even when the landscape is similar, each writer puts his or her own twist on the setting to ferret out the nuances that will best contribute to a story’s need. In the opening pages of The Work of Wolves, Earl Walks Alone takes his mother’s car for a drive one Friday night after studying calculus: “The moment he left the circle of trees, he felt the wind strike the car, angling across the highway into Twisted Tree. Earl held the steering wheel against it, keeping the car straight. A great blob of white came rolling out of the sky and flattened against the windshield with a sucking sound. Earl jumped, then saw it was only a plastic grocery bag … a prairie jellyfish.” Kent Meyers’ newly released novel, Twisted Tree, returns to a familiar landscape, but readers will encounter an entirely new story line. Young Haley Jo Zimmerman is gone; her story is told through those she left behind. In the morning, Meyers will team up with two other masters at evoking a sense of place: Lori Armstrong and Wyoming bestselling author Craig Johnson. Together, the three will provide festival visitors with excellent opportunities to learn more about what goes into crafting a successful mystery and suspense novel. Earlier that morning, Armstrong and MaryJanice Davidson will hold an enlightening session on breaking genre constraints for female characters. “Sagebrush, Skylines, and the Land-

scape” will be addressed by experts: fiction writers Kent Meyers, and Ron Carlson. Poet and novelist Melissa Kwasny will join them. Her latest collection, Reading Novalis in Montana, has been described as “the marriage of science and poetry in the uncompromising landscape of Big Sky Country.” Pete Dexter’s latest novel, Spooner, is being released just before the festival. Spooner is born in Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1956, “across the street from and approximately in the crosshairs of a cluster of Confederate artillery pieces guarding SD Dept. Tourism

Waterfall in Spreafish Canyon.

the dog-spotted front lawn of the Greene Street Sons of the Confederacy Retirement Home.” Dexter will entertain his audience with selected readings. Susan Power grew up in Chicago, but her writing in The Grass Dancer and Roofwalker transports readers to her ancestral home in North Dakota. From her mother, Power grew up hearing stories of her tribe, the Standing Rock Sioux, as well as ancestral tales from her father’s side – New Hampshire during the Civil War. Simon Van Booy’s collection of short stories, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories, was published in May 2009. Publishers Weekly said, “Each of these stories has moments of sheer loveliness.” This year’s fiction offerings are sure to provide many moments of sheer loveliness to festival-goers.

A SOUTH DAKOTA HOMECOMING “VEERING FROM the sublime to the sublimely ridiculous” is how Amazon. com described Going to See the Elephant, Rodes Fishburne’s best-selling fiction debut. Main character Slater Brown moves to San Francisco to be the “best writer ever,” but to make a living he takes a job at the Morning Trumpet, a 140-year-old newspaper that has been in decline for 139 years. Adventures ensue, including bus rides that give Slater scoops that resurrect the Trumpet, romance with a world-class chess player, and run-ins with a dastardly mayor and a mad scientist whose experiments threaten the city. F ishburne, a gradu ate of Pierre Riggs High School, has written for magazines and newspapers. Three of his plays have been produced in New York. He also spent five seasons as a fly-fishing guide in Alaska.

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OUR CREATIVITY Our Creativity: A Tribute to Writer’s Support

DAKOTA PHOTOGRAPHY O NE OF THE best days of Greg Latza’s life was resigning from the Argus Leader. “It was thrilling,” he says. “I felt like a huge weight was lifted from my camera bag.” The next day, Latza launched his freelancing career. I n 1999, Latza and his wife self-published Back on the Farm: Celebrating South Dakota Farm and Ranch Families, a pictorial study of South Dakota’s agriculture. Four thousand copies arrived on their doorstep in October. The book nearly sold out by Christmas. L atza’s latest book is Sioux Falls: A Photographi c J o u r n a l . O t h e rs i n clude South Dakota Spirit, Hometown S.D.: Life in Our Small Towns, Blue Stars (a look at 44 World War II veterans) and The Missouri (with essays by Kevin Woster). L atza and Dr. Judith Peterson will share their photography expertise. Peterson has written for television, magazines, and books.

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Ron Carlson returns to the Festival of Books.

The Art of Short Stories

EW WRITERS’ work has re- “The Governor’s Ball.” The Bloomsbury ceived Stephen King’s stamp Review says, “His clear focus on the probof approval, but King endorsed lem at hand and his often simple but effecRon Carlson’s 2007 book, Ron tive solutions are inspirational.” Carlson’s latest book, The Signal: A Carlson Writes a Story: “Do yourself a favor and read Ron Novel, is a tale of love and peril involvCarlson.” Booklist agreed, calling Carl- ing Mack and Vonnie, a husband and wife son “a master of the short story.” Festival taking one last backpacking trip before attendees will discover why Carlson has they part for good. Unbeknownst to Vonnie, Mack has another reason for the trip: received such high praise when he shares he is looking for something that has fallen his insights in the Writer’s Support track. Carlson knows how to help writers. from the sky. Other publishing professionals bringHe’s the director of the M.F.A. in fiction at the University of California, Irvine. ing advice and encouragement include children’s authors Jill Esbaum, Elaine He’s penned five novels, four collections of short stories and received the O. Henry Alphin, Gary Schmidt, Obert Skye, and prize, a National Endowment for the Arts illustrator/writer Carolyn Conahan. The Fiction Fellowship and a National Soci- breadth of their knowledge spans from ety of Arts and Letters Literature Award. laugh-out-loud picture books to young His 2007 novel, Five Skies, was Rhode Is- adult books both serious and comic. Elizland’s 2009 One Book Selection. Publish- abeth Cook-Lynn and Virginia Driving ers Weekly called Five Skies “stunning” Hawk Sneve will provide insight on tribal and “a tour de force of grief, atonement authorship. John Miller and Kevin Adams and the cost of loyalty.” Washington Post will discuss peer review and an editor’s role in writing history. Craig Johnson and writer Michael Dirda says that Carlson “can turn even a shopping list into a poem.” Lori Armstrong will offer clues to craftCarlson describes Ron Carlson Writes ing successful mystery and suspense fiction. Publisher Joe Mierau from Pine Hill a Story as “the story of a story.” Readers accompany Carlson from inspiration to Press and poet Gary Westgaard will disfinished product as he writes a short story, cuss the pros and cons of self-publishing.

Pete Dexter and T. D. Griffith will team up for a workshop on writing about Deadwood and the West. The workshop will be on Thursday, October 1, from 2:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Spearfish Holiday Inn Convention Center. The cost for the workshop will be $40.00.

OUR CULTURE Our Culture: A Tribute to History and Tribal Writing.

FIRST SCHOLARLY LOOK AT

Hunkpapa Sioux Leader Gall

ITTING BULL, Crazy Horse and Red Cloud remain wellknown more than 125 years after battles with the U.S. government made them famous. Gall was a widely-known contemporary, “one of the best known American Indian leaders in the country” at the time of his death in 1894, according to author and retired history p r ofe s s o r Ro b e r t Larson. Today his name is familiar to high-plains Indian schola rs, but u nknown to the general public. Gall: Lakota Warrior Chief helps reclaim the leader’s place in history. Gall had other names, but the one that stuck came after he ate the gall bladder of a bison. Gall liked the name The-Man-That-Goesin-the-Middle. U.S. soldiers called him “Fighting Cock of the Sioux.” He was the first major Hunkpapa chief to ratify the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. Gall, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, tried to prevent the government’s annexation of the Black Hills. Gall acted as Sitting Bull’s right hand man in battle. Larson examines Gall’s independent streak and contrasting aspects of his character. He had a fiery temper. At times he adopted controversial positions, such as in later years when he traded with white traders or rival tribes. On June 24, 1876, two of Gall’s wives and three of his children were killed when Major Marcus Reno attacked an Indian encampment. Learning of these deaths spurred Gall in a quest for revenge. Although Gall’s whereabouts during parts of

the Battle of Little Big Horn are disputed, he seized his opportunity to avenge the deaths of his family members during the horseback charge across Custer Hill. The Indian victory at Little Big Horn was followed by months of fighting as the government relentlessly pursued the Indians. The next spring Sitting Bull and Gall headed for exile in Canada. When Sitting Bull, Gall a nd t hei r followers retur ned to the U.S. years later, the two parted ways in their approaches to dealing with the gove r n me nt . G a l l chose to work with Indian agent James McLaughlin. Larson delves into Gall’s last yea rs on St a nd i ng Rock Reservation to provide a full picture of the Lakota chief. In addition to his presentation on Gall, Larson will join Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and James Donovan for a session entitled, “Revisiting Wounded Knee.” Scholar John Miller delves into the complicated, collaborative relationship between mother and daughter in Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture. Miller addresses questions surrounding the pair in essays entitled Authorship: Who Wrote the Books? and “They Should Know When They’re Licked”: American Indians in Wilder’s Fiction. Other presenters in the History and Tribal Writing Track include Kevin Adams, whose specialties include the American West; James Donovan, an expert on George Armstrong Custer; and Sean Flynn, DSU Professor and author of three books about the military.

DAKOTA CONNECTIONS THE 44TH ANNUAL conference of the Western Literature Association will be in Spearfish Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. The conference’s close proximity and an overlap of interests presents excellent opportunities for sharing resources. Kent Meyers, Pete Dexter, Linda Hasselstrom, Elizabeth Cook Lynn and Dan O’Brien are among those scheduled to appear at both events. This year’s theme is High Plains Drifting. For more information, see http://www.usu.edu/ westlit/conference2009. htm. A number of South Dakota historians have recently published books about famous South Dako ta n s . T h ey i n c l u d e Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends, by James McLaird; Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman, by David Wolff; and Outlaw Tales of South Dakota, by T. D. Griffith. The three authors will join forces in a Saturday morning session.

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SCHEDULE SILENT AUCTION BOOK CRAZE As a special offer to Festival goers, there will be a silent auction and a chance to purchase raffle tickets for dozens of books. All books are new releases, and several are autographed copies. The auction and raffle ticket sales will begin when the Festival opens with the Welcome Reception on Oct. 2nd at 3 p.m. Bidding and ticket sales will close on Sunday, Oct. 4th. You don’t need to be present to win. Winners will be notified by email or phone. In addition, a number of books will be included in a free raffle that will be at the Humanities Council information booth in Festival Central.

THURSDAY, October 1st

2 :15 – 4 :15 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Holiday Inn Convention Center (Spearfish), Writer’s Support Workshop, “Writing About Deadwood and the West,” National Book Award winner Pete Dexter and acclaimed local author T. D. Griffith will co-conduct a workshop about writing down the West’s greatest stories. Co-sponsored by the Western Literature Association. TICKET REQUIRED

7: 00 – 9 : 00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Homestake Opera House (Lead), “TRASH: Truly Rational And Sane Humans,” Enjoy a side-splitting performance by a local group of ladies who believes that laughter is the best medicine and sing songs about subjects such as hemorrhoids, PMS and menopause. Find more information about this performance at www. trashlive.org. TICKET REQUIRED To order tickets, call 800-456-0766 (ask for Sami) or email sami.haas@state.sd.us

FRIDAY, October 2nd

10 : 0 0 A M – 4 : 0 0 PM ~ S P EC I A L EVENTS – Deadwood Public Library, SD State Poetry Society Meeting 9:00 – 11:00 AM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Public Library Downstairs, Writer’s Support Workshop, “Fun with Quincy and Marilyn!,” award winning poets Marilyn Chin and Quincy Troupe will co-conduct an unforgettable poetry workshop. Co-sponsored by the SD State Poetry Society. TICKET REQUIRED 11 : 0 0 AM – 12 : 0 0 PM ~ SPEC IAL EVENTS – Deadwood Pavilion / Chamber of Commerce, “Food for Thought,” Live broadcast of South Dakota Public Radio’s literary arts radio show

12:00 – 1:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Social Club, “The Dakota Diet,” Join Dr. Kevin Weiland as he discusses his book The Dakota Diet, which has helped readers enjoy a uniquely healthy diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids and nutrients found on the plains of the Dakotas. TICKET REQUIRED 3: 00 – 3:45 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Public Library, “Wild Woman Poetry and Revenge Tales!” Marilyn Chin reads at the South Dakota State Poetry Society Tea 3: 00 – 6: 00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce, Festival Central open 3: 00 – 4: 00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce, “Life on the Farm & Ranch: Selected Readings,” Join SDSU professor emeritus John E. Miller, the editor of Life on the Farm & Ranch, as he and several contributors read stories from the book. Life on the Farm & Ranch is the newest book in the South Dakota Stories series and will be published in 2009 by the South Dakota Humanities Council 4: 00 – 5:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce, “Early Bird Book Signings at Festival Central” 6: 00 – 8:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Martin & Mason Hotel, 1898 Ballroom, “Literary Feast: Rapture & Ruin,” with Charles Bowden, Ron Carlson, Ann Daum, Pete Dexter, Linda Hasselstrom, Dan O’Brien, and Susan Power. Hosted by Rick Bass. TICKET REQUIRED 7:00 – 8:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “I Drink

TICKETS REQUIRED The public is invited to purchase tickets for three special events at the Festival of Books. Purchase your tickets in advance from the South Dakota Humanities Council. Call (605) 688-6113. 14 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

Friday: Lunch with Kevin Weiland $15.00 Friday: Literary Feast $35.00 Saturday: Michael Perry and the Long Beds $15.00

OF EVENTS for a Reason,” Join stand-up comedian, actor, writer and subculture superhero David Cross as he discusses his new book I Drink for a Reason

YOUTH – Deadwood Elementary School Auditorium, “The Mystery of the Maize,” Mark Meierhenry and David Volk

8:00 – 10:00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Saloon #10, “Rock Garden Tour” Keep it rural with Flowerman and Oil Can by joining them for a live taping of Rock Garden Tour, South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s gardening and rock and roll radio show

9:00 – 9:45 AM ~ HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Gall and the Yellowstone Campaigns,” Robert W. Larson

9:00 – 11:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Masonic Temple Upstairs, “Imprint,” Join Michael and Carolyn Linn for a screening and of the feature film Imprint, a Native American thriller starring Tonantzin Carmelo and directed by Michael Linn. Michael and Carolyn Linn will take questions about the film after the screening 9:00 – 11:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Open Mic Readings”

SATURDAY, October 3rd

9 : 00 – 7: 00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce, Festival Central open 9: 00 – 4: 00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Elementar y School Gym, “Dinostories,” Hosted by HOP – Hands-On Partnership for Science, Literature and Art in South Dakota 9:00 – 9:45 AM ~ FICTION – Silverado Clubhouse, “Nice Girls, Bad Girls— Breaking Genre Constraints,” Lori Armstrong & MaryJanice Davidson 9:00 – 9:45 AM ~ FICTION – Franklin Hotel Emerald Room, “Love Begins in Winter,” Simon Van Booy 9:00 – 9:45 AM ~ NON-FICTION – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Wilderness Legislation in the Yaak,” Rick Bass 9 : 00 – 9 : 45 AM ~ POETRY – Deadwood Library Upstairs, “The Book of Props: Selected Readings,” Wayne Miller 9 : 0 0 – 9 : 4 5 A M ~ C H I L D REN ’S /

9:00 – 9:45 AM ~ WRITER’S SUPPORT – St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, “Print and Photography: Working with Publishers,” Greg Latza and Judith Peterson 10:00 – 10:45 AM ~ FICTION – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Twisted Tree: Selected Readings,” Kent Meyers 10:00 – 10:45 AM ~ NON-FICTION – Silverado Clubhouse, “Adventures in the Wild,” Craig Childs 10:00 – 10:45 AM ~ POETRY – Deadwood Library Upstairs, “Dakota Poetry,” David Allan Evans, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, and Linda Hasselstrom 10 : 00 – 10 : 45 AM ~ CHILDREN’S/ YOUTH – Deadwood Elementary School Auditorium, “Amazing AHA! Moments,” Linda Skeers 10 : 00 – 10 : 45 AM ~ CHILDREN’S/ YOUTH – Deadwood Elementary School Gym, “Prairie Tales Story Time,” Carolyn Digby Conahan, S.D. Nelson, and Susan Turnbull 10:00 – 10:45 AM ~ HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Class and Race in the Frontier Army,” Kevin Adams 10 : 00 – 10 :45 AM ~ WRITER’S SUPPORT – St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, “From Idea to Bookshelf,” Elaine Marie Alphin, Jill Esbaum, and Gary Schmidt 11:00 – 12:15 AM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Crime Wave: Brown Bag Luncheon,” Lori Armstrong, Craig Johnson, and Kent Meyers 11:00 – 11:45 AM ~ NON-FICTION – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Un15

SCHEDULE OF EVE derstanding Health Through Art,” Judith Peterson 11:00 – 11:45 AM ~ NON-FICTION – Franklin Hotel Emerald Room, “Waiting for Coyote’s Call,” Jerry Wilson 11:00 – 11:45 AM ~ POETRY – Deadwood Library Upstairs, “Reading Novalis in Montana: Selected Readings,” Melissa Kwasny 11:00 – 11:45 AM ~ POETRY – Deadwood Library Downstairs, “Spiritual Writing,” Daniel Burow and Gary Westgard 11: 00 – 11: 45 AM ~ CHILDREN’S/ YOUTH – Deadwood Elementary School Auditorium, “Lakota Stories for Children,” Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve and Don Montileaux 11: 00 – 11:45 AM ~ HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS – St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, “Law and Order: Seth Bullock, Wild Bill Hickok, and the Outlaws of Deadwood,” T.D. Griffith, Jim McLaird, and David Wolff 11:00 – 11:45 AM ~ WRITER’S SUPPORT – Silverado Clubhouse, “Ron Carlson Writes a Story,” Ron Carlson 12:30 – 2:00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce, “Book Signings at Festival Central” 1:00 – 2:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Elementary School Room 256, “South Dakota Literacy Council Meeting” Free and open to the public 2:00 – 2:45 PM ~ FICTION – Silverado Clubhouse, “What Novelists Learn from the Dakotas,” Rodes Fishburne 2:00 – 2:45 PM ~ NON-FICTION – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Land Use and Prairie Restoration,” Linda Hasselstrom, Dan O’Brien, Pamela Todd, and Jerry Wilson 2 : 00 – 2 : 45 PM ~ POETRY – Deadwood Library Upstairs, “Poetry and Music by Alaska’s Fiddling Poet,” Ken Waldman 2 : 0 0 – 2 : 4 5 PM ~ C H I L D R E N ’ S / 16 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

YOUTH – Deadwood Elementary School Auditorium, “Writing for Young Readers,” Gary Schmidt 2: 00 – 2:45 PM ~ HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Frontier Women: Laura Ingalls Wilder & Rose Wilder Lane,” John E. Miller 2:00 – 2:45 PM ~ WRITER’S SUPPORT – Franklin Hotel Emerald Room, “Self Publishing 101,” Gary Westgard and Joe Mierau 2:00 – 2:45 PM ~ FICTION – Masonic Temple Upstairs, “Are There Really Vampires in Minnesota,” MaryJanice Davidson 3:00 – 3:45 PM ~ FICTION – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Spooner: Selected Readings,” Pete Dexter 3:00 – 3:45 PM ~ NON-FICTION – St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, “Teaching Writing in the Prison System,” Jim Reese and Pamela Todd 3 : 00 – 3 : 45 PM ~ NON-FICTION – Deadwood Library Downstairs, “Selected Readings,” Ann Daum 3 : 00 – 3 : 45 PM ~ POETRY – Deadwood Library Upstairs, “Favorite Verses,” Wayne Miller, Jim Reese, and Simon Van Booy 3 : 0 0 – 3 : 4 5 PM ~ C H I L D R E N ’ S / YOUTH – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Book in a Box: Using Old Stuff to Tell New Stories,” Nancy Hull 3: 00 – 3:45 PM ~ HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS – Franklin Hotel Emerald Room, “The Enduring Significance of the Wounded Knee Creek Massacre,” Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, James Donovan, and Robert W. Larson 3:00 – 3:45 PM ~ WRITER’S SUPPORT – Deadwood Elementary School Auditorium, “The Writing Life,” Elaine Alphin, Obert Skye, and Carolyn Digby Conahan 4:00 – 4:45 PM ~ FICTION – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Our Lady of the New World: The Novel as Spiritual Journey,” Susan Power

ENTS CONTINUED 4:00 – 4:45 PM ~ NON-FICTION – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Capturing the Environment in Photos and Essays,” Craig Childs, Greg Latza, and Dan O’Brien

5:00 – 5:45 PM ~ WRITER’S SUPPORT – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Pursuing Authentic Tales of South Dakota,” Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, and Jim McLaird

4 : 00 – 4 : 45 PM ~ POETRY – Deadwood Library Downstairs, “Readings from South Dakota’s Poet Laureate,” David Allan Evans

7: 30 – 10 : 00 ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Gulch Convention Center, “Michael Perry and the Long Beds,” Author, humorist, and singer/songwriter Michael Perry and his band the Long Beds will keep you laughing with this unique blend of comedy and music. TICKET REQUIRED

4 : 0 0 – 4 : 4 5 PM ~ C H I L D R E N ’ S / YOUTH – Deadwood Elementary School Auditorium, “Leven Thumps: The Wrath of Ezra,” Obert Skye 4: 00 – 4:45 PM ~ HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS – Deadwood Library Upstairs, “A Terrible Glory: Custer & The Battle of Little Bighorn,” James Donovan 4:00 – 4:45 PM ~ WRITER’S SUPPORT – St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, “Peer Review and the Role of an Editor in Writing About History,” Kevin Adams, John Miller, and David Wolff 5: 00 – 5:45 PM ~ FICTION – St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, “Sagebrush, Skylines, and the Landscape,” Ron Carlson, Melissa Kwasny, and Kent Meyers 5 : 00 – 5 : 45 PM ~ NON-FICTION – Deadwood Elementary School Auditorium, “Violence in the West,” Craig Johnson, Pete Dexter, and Terri Jentz 5 : 00 – 5 : 45 PM ~ POETRY – Deadwood Library Upstairs, “Selected Readings,” Quincy Troupe 5 : 0 0 – 5 : 4 5 PM ~ C H I L D R E N ’ S / YOUTH – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Creative Memories” Jessica Lee Anderson 5 : 00 – 5 : 45 PM ~ HISTORY/ TRIB AL WRITERS – Deadwood Library Downstairs, “Mission to Germany: William ‘Bud’ Gassen and the 457th Bomb Group,” Sean Flynn

10 : 0 0 PM – 12 : 0 0 AM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Ghost Stories,” Join the Black Hills Storytellers for a night of ghastly tales and spooky stories about apparitions, the living dead, and more. Performance intended for adults and teenagers. Space is limited. Call the Adams Museum at (605)578-1928 to RSVP

SUNDAY, October 4th

9:00 AM - 2:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Holiday Inn Mystic Room, “Dakota Writing Project 2009 Writing Marathon,” Discover a goldmine of words inside you at the Dakota Writing Project 2009 Writing Marathon! Write in a supportive atmosphere while exploring scenic Deadwood. TICKET REQUIRED: $15. Contact Nancy Kampfe at nkampfe@rushmore.com to RSVP or for more information. 9:00 – 11:00 AM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Tatanka: Story of the Bison, “Perspectives on Cultural Legacies,” Join Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Don Montileaux, S.D. Nelson, Susan Power, and Susan Turnbull for a discussion of American Indian stories and storytelling. TICKET REQUIRED: Bring one non-perishable food item for admission to this event. All items will be donated to the Lord’s Cupboard in Lead, SD

Time and presenters listed are subject to change. Please check “The Festival Survivor’s Guide” in the information booth located in Festival Central or visit www.sdbookfestival.com for any changes. 17

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EXHIBITORS’ HALL Where Readers a n d Writers Rendezvous

AUTHORS

Jane Green, Clark Linda Johnson, Sioux Falls

Marty Jolley,

S.D. Ag Heritage Museum, Brookings, www.agmuseum.com

ORGANIZATIONS

Center for Western Studies, Sioux Falls, www.augie.edu/cws/

Black Hawk

Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission, Deadwood,

Alice Kegley,

www.cityofdeadwood.com

Barbara Roseland,

Historic Deadwood Lead Arts Council,

Seneca

Lead, www.deadwoodleadartscouncil.com

Phyllis Schmidt,

Literacy Council of the Black Hills,

Lemmon

Rapid City, www.readsd.org

Bill Walken,

S.D. Literacy Council, Volga,

Belle Fourche

www.readsd.org

BOOKSELLERS

S.D. Public Broadcasting, Vermillion,

Border’s Books & Cafe, Rapid City, www.borders.com

www.sdpb.org

S.D. Tourism Dept., Pierre,

Prairie Edge Trading Co. & Galleries, www.travelsd.com Rapid City, www.prairieedge.com

Scholastic Book Fair, Hosted by Paha

PRESSES

S.D. State Historical Society Press,

Sapa Reading Council

Pierre, www.sdshspress.com

MUSEUMS

Pine Hill Press, Sioux Falls,

Adams Museum & House, Deadwood,

www.pinehillpress.com

www.adamsmuseumandhouse.org

The Exhibitors Hall is located in the Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce. Open Friday from 3 – 6 p.m. and again on Saturday from 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. 19

PRESENTERS KEVIN ADAMS Kevin Adams is Assistant Professor of History at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. He is an historian of the United States with a special interest in war & society, Gilded Age America, and the History of the American West. His most recent book, Class and Race in the Frontier Army, was published by the University Oklahoma Press in 2009.

ELAINE MARIE ALPHIN

www.elainemariealphin.com

Elaine Marie Alphin has authored more than 20 books for young readers and teenagers, including the Edgar Award winning mystery, Counterfeit Son, and has lived in San Francisco, New York City, Houston, TX, upstate New York, Southern Indiana, midstate Wyoming, midstate South Dakota, Bozeman, MT, and York, England.

JESSICA LEE ANDERSON www.jessicaleeanderson.com

Jessica Lee Anderson’s passion is writing literature for children. She released her first novel, Trudy in 2005. She later released Border Crossing in fall 2009. She has written fiction and non-fiction for Highlights for Children, Highlights High Five, Stories for Children Magazine, Wee Ones Magazine, and Holiday Crafts 4 Kids. She is currently an instructor at the Institute of Children’s Literature.

LORI ARMSTRONG

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Literary Award in 2007. The first book in Mercy Gunderson series, No Mercy, will be released in hardcover in January 2010 from Touch Fireside, an imprint of Simon and Schuster.

RICK BASS Dubbed “Nature Writer” by bookstores and critics, Rick Bass’s works are concerned with the nature of the human heart and the heart of nature. The son of a geologist, Bass took an early interest in the natural world. He earned a B.S. at Utah State University in 1979 and worked as a petroleum geologist for several years. Bass has lived around the South and Southwest, including stints in Mississippi from 1979 to 1987 as a petroleum geologist in charge of prospecting for new wells, an experience that formed the basis for his book Oil Notes (1989). He currently lives and works in the Yaak Valley in Montana.

CHARLES BOWDEN Charles Bowden is the author of eleven books including A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Dog; Down By the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family; Juárez: The Laboratory of our Future; Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America; Desierto: Memories of the Future; Red Line; Blue Desert; and (with Michael Binstein) Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions. He is a contributing editor of Esquire, and also writes for other magazines such as Harper’s and The New York Times Book Review. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

www.loriarmstrong.com

DANIEL BUROW

Lori Armstrong left the firearms industry in 2000 to pursue her dream of writing crime fiction. A nominee for the Shamus Award, Daphne du Maurier Award, and the 2008 High Plains Book award, she won the Willa Cather

Dr. Daniel Burow is a psychologist specializing in geriatrics, existential issues and psychological trauma. “Rebels, Poets, and Mystics” records Dr. Burow’s relationship with Fr. Frahm, a

www.danielburow.com

PRESENTERS poet and teacher in the Christian mystical tradition, and the basics of his teachings.

RON CARLSON Ron Carlson is a professor of English and the director of UC Irvine’s MFA fiction writing program. Carlson’s short stories have been published in Esquire, Harper’s, The New Yorker and Gentlemen’s Quarterly. He is the author of nine fiction books and his latest work, Ron Carlson Writes a Story, guides readers step-by-step through the process of writing a work of fiction.

CRAIG CHILDS

www.houseofrain.com

Craig Childs is writer who focuses on natural sciences, archaeolo g y, a n d m i n d blowing journeys into the wilderness. He has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books on nature, science, and adventure. He is a commentator for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Journal, Outside and Orion. His subjects range from pre-Columbian archaeology to US border issues to the last free-flowing rivers of Tibet.

MARILYN CHIN Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her books have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Chin has won numerous awards for her poetry, including ones from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received a Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, four Pushcart Prizes, the Paterson Prize, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan. She co-directs the MFA 22 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

program at San Diego State University.

DAVID CROSS With a wide range of comedic talents, David Cross first hit the scene as a stand-up comedian, and later moved to TV, where his work as a writer ear ned him an Emmy award and several nominations. He has also been nominated for a Grammy award for one of his two comedy CD’s. Cross has appeared in such films as Men in Black, Kung Fu Panda, and Curious George. On the television side, Cross appeared in the Emmy Award winning comedy, Arrested Development, as Tobias Fünke.

CAROLYN DIGBY CONAHAN www.carolyndigbyconahan.com

Carolyn Digby Conahan has written and illustrated numerous children’s books. She has illustrated two storybooks for the South Dakota State Historical Society Press: The Discontented Gopher and The Prairie-Dog Prince. She also illustrated Bubble Homes & Fish Farts, a nonfiction picture book written by Fiona Bayrock, which will be released in February 2009. Carolyn wrote and illustrated The Wish Farm, a picture book to be published by Chronicle in spring 2010.

ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is a retired Professor Emerita in Indian Studies and Humanities from Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington, where she co-founded the journal Wicazo Sa Review, a Native American Studies Journal with Bea Medicine, Roger Buffalohead and William Willard. She has been a visiting professor in Indian Studies at UC Davis and Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. She has published 11 books

and is at work on two manuscripts.

ANN DAUM Feelance writer Daum is a resident of Okaton, SD and authored The Prairie in Her Eyes, a series of essays about ranching in the modern West. She received a Bush Artist Fellowship in 1999.

and most recently A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Big Horn—the Last Great Battle of the American West. He lives in Dallas.

VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK SNEVE

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve was born and raised on PETE DEXTER Pete Dexter is the author of the the Rosebud ReserNational Book Award winner Par- vation in South Dakois Trout and of God’s Pocket, Dead- ta and is an enrolled wood, Brotherly Love, and The Pa- member of the Roseperboy. He was born in Michigan and bud Sioux tribe. For raised in Georgia, Illinois, and eastern 25 years she was an educator in BIA, South Dakota. He lives in Puget Sound, Public schools, and colleges in South Dakota. Since 1972, she has published Washington. over 20 books, numerous short stories, articles, and poems. JAMES DONOVAN James Donovan is the New York Times Bestselling author of the clas- JILL ESBAUM sic illustrated account of Custer’s Last www.jillesbaum.com Stand, Custer and the Little Bighorn, Jill Esbaum is the author of Stink

Soup, Ste-e-e-e-eamboat A-Comin’!, Estelle Takes a Bath, To the Big Top, Stanza, and two new nonfiction picture books from National Geographic Kids, APPLES for Everyone and Seed, Sprout, PUMPKIN, Pie. Jill is an instructor for The Institute of Children’s Literature and is the Quad Cities Network Chair for the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators.

DAVID ALLAN EVANS David Allan Evans started college on a football scholarship and by the time he graduated, he was writing poems and short stories. Evans was professor of English and writer in residence at SDSU for many years and recently retired. He is the author of nine books and chapbooks of poems and several

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PRESENTERS books of prose. His poems, short stories, and nonfiction have been published in many magazines and journals and in over 75 anthologies.

RODES FISHBURNE

www.rodesfishburne.com

For over ten years, Rodes Fishburne has been published in magazines and newspapers, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and Forbes ASAP, where he was the editor of the acclaimed “Big Issue,” an annual magazine of literary essays from leading writers and thinkers including: Tom Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, Muhammad Ali, and the Dalai Lama. The “Big Issue,” was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2000.

SEAN J. FLYNN Sean J. Flynn is Associate Professor of History at Dakota Wesleyan Uni-

versity and the author of three books. His most recent, Mission to Germany: William “Bud” Gassen and the 457th Bomb Group, released in 2009, tells the story of a South Dakota native who flew 28 combat missions in a B-17 during World War II. Dr. Flynn continues to conduct research on American military history.

T. D. Griffith T. D. Griffith has written or co-authored more than 50 books, including America’s Shrine of Democracy with a foreword by President Ronald Reagan, South Dakota, a comprehensive guide to the state, A Winning Tradition: The Greeno Story with a foreword by NBC’s Tom Brokaw, and Outlaw Tales of South Dakota. He has been a con-

tributing writer to Random House and Globe Pequot for two decades.

LINDA HASSELSTROM www.windbreakhouse.com

Linda Hasselstrom is an award-winning poet and writer of the High Plains whose work is rooted in the landscape of western South Dakota. Linda conducts writing retreats on her Hermosaarea family ranch, where she is working with the Great Plains Native Plant Society and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory to improve grassland and riparian habitat for plants and wildlife.

NANCY HULL

www.nancyhull.net Nancy Hull teaches writing and child re n ’s l i t e r a t u re at Calvin College in Grand Rapids,

Shadow Mountain

PRESENTERS Michigan. When she’s not teaching, she is often at the library or on some research trip—with her husband or one of her sons—to discover lively details for her next novel.

TERRI JENTZ Terri Jentz grew up on the Dakota prairies before moving east to the Chicago suburbs, then further east to attend Yale University. She is currently a screenwriter in Los Angeles and works with Equality Now. In 1977, she was a victim of an attack and wrote about her experience in her first book, Strange Piece of Paradise: A Return to the American West to Investigate My Attempted Murder — And Solve the Mystery of Myself. Jentz was an Edgar, NBCC and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in 2006.

CRAIG JOHNSON

www.craigallenjohnson.com

Craig Johnson is the author of the Book Sense and Killer picks Death Without Company and The Cold Dish, both featuring Walt Longmire. The Cold Dish was also chosen as a DILYS finalist, and Death Without Company received the Wyoming Historical Society Award for fiction as well as being a finalist for The Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award. Another Man’s Moccasins, the fourth in the series won the Spur Award for the Western Writers of America Novel of the Year.

MELISSA KWASNY Melissa Kwasny is the author of three books of poetry, The Archival Birds, Thistle, which won the Idaho Prize for 2005, and most recently, Reading Novalis in Montana. Widely published in journals, including Willow Springs, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Bellingham Review, Crab Orchard Review, and River Styx. 26 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

ROBERT W. LARSON Robert W. Larson is retired as a Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley and the author of numerous articles and books. His latest book, Gall: Lakota War Chief, won the Spur award, the Robert M. Butley, and the Westerners International Co-Founders “Best Book” Award. The Denver Posse of Westerners honored him in 2006 with its Fred A. Rosenstock Award for Lifetime Achievement in Western History.

GREG LATZA

www.peoplescapes.com

Greg Latza is a freelance photographer based in Sioux Falls. The majority of his work centers around agriculture and people associated with farming and the prairie. He has been published in magazines ranging from Newsweek and Rolling Stone to Successful Farming and South Dakota Magazine. He and his wife Jodi Holley Latza, a freelance graphic designer, have published seven photography books about South Dakota, their favorite muse.

MICHAEL AND CAROLYN LINN www.linnproductions.com

Michael and Linn Productions teamed up with Native American filmmaker Chris Eyre to create Imprint, a contemporary supernatural thriller using an almost exclusively Native American cast. Michael co-wrote, directed, shot, and edited the movie. Carolyn is the executive producer of the project, and also produced, overseeing casting, budget, locations, scheduling, and wardrobe. The Linn family owns Linn Productions in Rapid City.

JIM MCLAIRD Jim McLaird is a history professor emeritus at Dakota Wesleyan University who is a leading authority on Deadwood’s infamous Calamity Jane. In 2005, Calamity Jane: The Life and The Legend was released. His new book is Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends which was

released in August 2008. He is the author of numerous articles on western history and mythmaking, focusing on the Black Hills.

won fiction awards from Crazyhorse, The Southern Humanities Review, The Black Warrior Review, and The Minnesota Monthly.

MARK MEIERHENRY

JOE MIERAU

Mark Meierhenry, a Sioux Falls attorney, recently co-wrote the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book The Mystery of the Round Rocks, published by the South Dakota State Historical Society Press. Meierhenry was elected South Dakota Attorney General, serving from 1979-1986.

For the past 20 years, Joe Mierau has managed Pine Hill Press, a small book printing company in Sioux Falls that he owns together with his wife Mary Ann. Joe and Mary Ann are the parents of five grown children and the grandparents of three pre-school grandchildren.

KENT MEYERS Kent Meyers is the author of several novels, with Twisted Tree, his most recent novel, hitting shelves in fall 2009. He lives in Spearfish, South Dakota, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Black Hills State University. His work has been anthologized in The Best of the West series, and in Best American Mystery Stories. He has

JOHN E. MILLER John E. Miller is the author of Laura Ingalls Wilderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet and Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The

Woman behind the Legend. His most recent book is Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture. He is a retired Professor Emeritus of History at South Dakota State University and lives in Brookings.

WAYNE MILLER

www.onlythesenses.com

Wayne Miller is the author of two poetry collections, The Book of Props and Only the Senses Sleep, which received the 2007 William Rockhill Nelson Award. The three-time recipient of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2004, 2005, and 2007), the George Bogin Memorial Award, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and the Bess Hokin Prize,

PRESENTERS Miller currently lives in Kansas City and teaches at the University of Central Missouri.

DON MONTILEAUX www.montileaux.com

Don Montileaux is a 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.

DR. JUDITH PETERSON

S. D. Nelson is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the Dakotas. He has written and illustrated numerous award-winning children’s books. Nelson’s artwork also appears on book jackets, greeting cards, and CD covers, and his paintings are held in both private and public collections.

In addition to being a practicing physician, Dr. Judith Peterson is a local photographer who specializes in botanical, landscape, sports, medical and fine art pho tography. Her recently published book, The Picture of Health: A View from the Prairie features her photography and essays by Dr. Rick Holm.

DAN O’BRIEN

SUSAN POWER

Dan O’Brien, a writer and buffalo rancher, is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction about the West. He has worked as an endangered-species biologist and an English teacher. His 2001 memoir, Buffalo for the Broken Heart, was selected as the 2009 One Book South Dakota. He lives on his ranch near Hermosa, South Dakota.

Susan Power is the author of the national bestseller The Grass Dancer. She also released Roofwalker in 2004. She is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and has earned an undergraduate and J.D. from Harvard. Power’s fiction has appeared in Atlantic Monthly and Paris Review.

S.D. NELSON

www.sdnelson.net

MICHAEL PERRY AND THE LONG BEDS www.sneezingcow.com

Michael Perry is a humorist and author of several bestselling memoirs and essay collections. Perry has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Backpacker, Orion and Salon.com, and is a contributing editor to Men’s Health. The Long Beds 28 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

are a rotating cast of characters who basically consent t o s t a re a t t h e backside of Michael Perry so he can pretend he’s a musician, which he’s not. He likes to write songs and sing them, and knows maybe five chords, but he plays his guitar with all the nuance of a man cutting brush. The Long Beds, on the other hand, are real pros. And charitable.

JIM REESE Jim Reese is an Assistant Professor of English; Director of the Great Plains Writers’ Tour at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota; and Editorin-Chief of PADDLEFISH. His most recent collection of poetry is These Trespasses, which includes Pushcart Prize nominated poems. Reese is also the 2008 and 2009 National Endowment for the Art’s Writer-in-Residence at the Yankton Federal Prison Camp.

GARY SCHMIDT Gary D. Schmidt is the author of more than fifteen books for children and young adults, including The Wednesday Wars, a 2008 Newbery Honor Award winner, and Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, which won a Newbery Honor award and a Michael L. Printz Honor award in 2005. His newest novel, Trouble, came out in spring 2008. He is a professor in the English department at Calvin College and lives on a farm in Alto, Michigan, with his wife and six children.

LINDA SKEERS

www.linda-skeers.com Linda Skeers is the author of The Impossible Patriotism Project and Tutus Aren’t My Style and the collective biography History

Makers: TOY MAKERS. Linda is an instructor for the Institute of Children’s Literature.

OBERT SKYE

www.leventhumps.com

Obert Skye doesn’t like to give a lot of details in his biography. For example, he likes to say that he was “born a number of years ago in a town about the size of the one you are living in.” More than wanting to remain anonymous, Skye just wants us to leave the rest of the story to our imagination, something he excels at. He is the author of the bestselling Leven Thumps series. The fifth installment, titled Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder, will be released in October 2009.

PAMELA TODD

www.pamelatodd.com

Pamela Todd is the author of The Blind Faith Hotel and Pig and the

Shrink. She is an avid prairie gardener, a core teaching artist for the Ragdale Foundation, and a popular speaker at schools, conferences, and events. She’s been awarded grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

QUINCY TROUPE Quincy Troupe is an award-winning author, poet, and screenwriter. Among his honors and awards are fellowships from the National Foundation for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. He has taught at the University of California--San Diego, and Columbia University. He was the first official poet laureate of the state of California. Troupe

Jerry Jacks

PRESENTERS lives with his wife, Margaret, and son Porter, in La Jolla, CA.

SUSAN TURNBULL Susan Turnbull is an award-winning illustrator and artist from Rapid City, South Dakota. She has illustrated numerous books, and her art has been shown in galleries across the country from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

SIMON VAN BOOY

www.simonvanbooy.com

Simon Van Booy was born in London and grew up in rural Wales and Oxford. In 2002 he was awarded an MFA and won the H.R. Hays Poetry Prize. His journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the New York Times and the New York Post. Van Booy is the author of The Secret Lives of People in Love, now translated into several languages. He lives in New York City.

DAVID VOLK David Volk recently co-wrote the children’s book The Mystery of the Round Rocks, published by the South Dakota State Historical Society Press. Volk is a five-time state treasurer and served as cabinet secretary of Governor William Janklow. He holds a bachelor’s degree in education from Northern State University.

KEN WALDMAN

www.kenwaldman.com

Ken Waldman has toured throughout North America as Alaska’s Fiddling Poet since 1995. He is the author of six poetry collections and has released nine CDs. Are You Famous?, his first book of prose, is part memoir, part travel notes, and part artist how-to. A Blue Highways for our time.

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DR. KEVIN WEILAND www.dakotadiet.com

Dr. Kevin Weiland is a practicing physician, board certified in the specialty of internal medicine. He developed The Dakota Diet as a way to realistically address nutrition and health with his patients. Dr. Weiland has been recognized with numerous awards for his community service as well as his ongoing work with school nutrition and childhood obesity.

GARY WESTGARD Gary Westgard served as a Lutheran pastor for congregations in Nebraska and South Dakota for 35 years (19692004). In January of 2005, Gary began writing poetry and in 2007 he contacted Joe Mierau, owner of Pine Hill Press in Sioux Falls, who helped him through the process of self publishing. Gary’s book, The Journey and the Grace was published in June of 2007.

JERRY WILSON Jerry Wilson is a retired English professor and freelance journalist. He grew up on a farm in Oklahoma, where he developed his appreciation for nature and the wild, before moving to South Dakota and putting it all into practice. Wilson is the author of Waiting for Coyote’s Call: An EcoMemoir from the Missouri River Bluff. He lives near Vermillion, South Dakota.

DAVID A. WOLFF David A. Wolff is associate professor of history at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota. He is an award-winning author focusing on Black Hills, South Dakota, mining, and western history.

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