2011 Festival of Books Guide by South Dakota Humanities Council

Where Readers and Writers Rendezvous

October 7–9, 20 1 1 D e a d w o o d , S o u t h D a ko t a • w w w. s d b o o k f e s t i v a l . c o m

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S.D. Tourism / Chad Coppess

Co nte nts Mayor’s Welcome

SD Humanities Council Welcome Events Map Our Rhythms: A Tribute to Poetry Sponsored by AWC Family Foundation

9 Our World: A Tribute to Non-Fiction

Sponsored by AWC Family Foundation

12 Our Creativity: A Tribute to Writers’ Support Sponsored by the South Dakota Arts Council 13 Our Culture: A Tribute to History and Tribal Writing

Sponsored by the Brass Family Foundation

14 Presenters 26 Schedule of Events 30 Exhibitors at Exhibitors’ Hall 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, twitter.com/sdbookfestival, facebook.com/sdbookfestival and included in the Festival Survivor’s Guide, a handout available at the Exhibitors’ Hall information desk in the Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce. 3

Welcome ...

nce again I have the privilege to welcome you to Deadwood for the Ninth Annual South Dakota Festival of Books. Since the inception of this event in 2003, Deadwood has been the host city each odd numbered year. The City of Deadwood, the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission and the Deadwood City Library are again pleased to partner with the South Dakota Humanities Council for the fifth time to present this book festival. The list of presenters is both long and impressive. Booklovers will have an opportunity to listen to a diverse group of authors from both afar and near. Also since the 2009 festival there have been two major additions that I hope will enhance your visit. We hope you enjoy the Deadwood Mountain Grand and The Lodge at Deadwood. We look forward to having you join us for this exciting event and hope you get a chance to explore Deadwood in its fiftieth anniversary of being designated a National Historic Landmark! Sincerely,

Mayor Francis Toscana

adve rtise r listi ng A Harvest of Words..................................20

Prairie Edge Bookseller, LLC..................22

Black Hills State University....................23

Prairie Pages..........................................16

Country Congregations........................... 15

PryntComm...............................................4

Deadwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Adams Museum................... 21

SD Art Museum.......................................26

K Talk Radio............................................14

SD Community Foundation..................... 17

Lead-Deadwood Arts Center.....................3

SD Public Broadcasting.......................... 25

Life on the Farm and Ranch.....................20

SD State Agricultural Heritage Museum...30

Living Justice Press...................................5

SD State Historical Society Press..............2

Mount Marty College.............................. 21

SD State University.................................19

Mount Rushmore Society.........................24

South Dakotans for the Arts.....................16

On the Home Front..................................18

University of Nebraska Press....................6

One Room Country School......................22

University of Sioux Falls.........................24

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.............3

University of South Dakota..................... 15

Outdoor Campus..................................... 21

Walker/Bloomsbury USA.........................18

Penguin Group USA................................ 31

Zandbroz Variety.....................................24

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Joi n U s!

t all started with a vision nine years ago. We envisioned a South Dakota where people from every nation would come together in appreciation and celebration of the literary arts — to learn, discuss, celebrate and even disagree about what makes literature so powerful. From this vision came the South Dakota Festival of Books. Each year, the South Dakota Humanities Council is proud to present festival offerings ranging from award-winning, national attractions to exciting career debuts and everything in between. As a participant, you’ll experience lively panels, insightful discussions, breath-taking readings and a variety of workshops featuring topnotch moderators. This year, we are particularly pleased to introduce a thematic focus on American Indian cultures. Much like last year’s thematic focus on immigration (featuring 2010 One Book SD author Dave Eggers) this year’s theme has informed and shaped the festival lineup for 2011. We welcome back favorite past American Indian presenters such as Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Ernie LaPointe, Don Montileaux, Susan Power and 2011 One Book South Dakota author Joseph Marshall III. In addition, we are excited to host newcomers such as Stephen Graham Jones, Diane Glancy and Delphine Red Shirt. We invite you to join us online at www.sdbookfestival.com to see a complete list of presenters and to complete your free registration for the event. SDHC wants you to take full advantage of the opportunities presented at this year’s South Dakota Festival of Books — soak it all in! Because then we encourage you to take what you’ve learned back to your hometown and let SDHC help you continue the discussion. Whether you’re a librarian, museum curator, or just a literary fan, we offer reading and film packages that center on American Indian issues to help enlighten and enliven your community. We particularly encourage you to join the thousands of American Indian tribal high school students in reading this year’s One Book SD, The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History, before joining us on October 8 as Joseph Marshall III takes the stage at the beautiful Deadwood Mountain Grand. Come early to experience an American Indian-style feed and music leading up to the keynote event. Join the thousands of locals and travelers to talk about Marshall’s depiction of Crazy Horse from a Lakota perspective, interact with fellow bibliophiles and learn something new. Please check out our website or call 605-688-6113 for more information on how you can make the Festival of Books a vacation destination on October 7-9, 2011! And mark your calendars for September 28–30, 2012 as we prepare to continue the American Indian cultures discussion, with the help of the American Indian Cultures Task Force, into the coming year. Sincerely,

Sherry DeBoer Executive Director for the South Dakota Humanities Council 6 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

Festival of Books Event Locations A. DEADWOOD MOUNTAIN GRAND (1906 Deadwood Mountain Dr.) At the junction of Pine Street and 14A (Pioneer Way). B. DEADWOOD PAVILION/CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (761 Main St.) Main floor is Exhibitors’ Hall location. Concessions are available inside. C. 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. • Downstairs • Main Floor D. FRANKLIN HOTEL (700 Main St.) • Emerald Room – 2nd floor • Gold Room 1 & 2 – lower level E. HOMESTAKE ADAMS RESEARCH & CULTURAL CENTER (HARCC) (150 Sherman St.) F. LEAD-DEADWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (716 Main St.) Use north entrance for auditorium & gym. • Auditorium • Gym • Library • Room 256 G. THE LODGE AT DEADWOOD (100 Pine Crest Ln.) • Drive one mile north of Deadwood on Hwy. 85, located on left side of Hwy., across from Tatanka. H. MARTIN & MASON HOTEL (33 Deadwood St.) • 1898 Ballroom I. MASONIC TEMPLE (corner of Main St. & Pine St.) • Main Floor • Second Floor J. ROUNDHOUSE (106 Glendale Dr., Lead) Take Hwy. 14A south to Lead. K. 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.

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

Poetry PRISON LIFE Jim Reese has been the National Endowment for the Arts Writer-inResidence at the Yankton Federal Prison Camp since 2008. He previously taught at a similar program at San Quentin Prison in California and is an Associate Professor of English at Mount Marty College in Yankton. “Five years ago, I would have never thought I’d be teaching at a prison,” Reese says, “but it’s made my writing and teaching richer for the show.” His recent collection, ghost on 3rd, combines poems about teaching inmates and precious moments with his family. The title is a tribute to his grandfather. “He is one of the world’s best storytellers,” Reese says. Reese strives to make his storytelling relatable. “Ted Kooser said, ‘Anyone in the world can write poems people can’t understand,’” he says. “The poems in ghost on 3rd are narrative, confessional, and above all, accessible.”

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Driving for Inspiration

car is an unexpected follow that trail.” She hopes that readwriting tool, but an abso- ers will feel similar inspiration from her writing. lute necessity for Diane Glancy has received numerous Glancy. “I don’t think I could write if I didn’t awards, grants and fellowships, but drive,” Glancy says. she attributes the Native American “The land carries voices and memories. Prose Award, for her collection called When I get in my car and drive, that’s Claiming Breath, to launching her career. “I thought, ‘Oh, it’s probably not when the ideas come.” Glancy will present from her book, very good.’ We’re always hard on ourStories of the Driven World, a collec- selves,” she says. “Winning the award gave me the confidence to continue.” tion of 30 poems inspired by two years of traveling. “It also has a meaning of She has since published more than 30 books of poetry, short what drives us as a culstories, essays, a numture,” Glancy says. The ber of plays, two short book is described as an f ilms, and a feature original vision of North length f ilm titled The America, pieced from Dome of Heaven. real and invented histor“I’d always wanted to ic documents, museum make a film,” she says. artifacts and field notes. The Dome of Heaven Glancy is of Cherokee was created in 2009 afand English/German ter Glancy retired from descent and uses vaMacalester College in rieties of language — St. Paul, Minn. The stopetroglyphs, Morse code, Cherokee, Inuit, and 19th cen- ry was filmed in the tiny town of Vici, tury English — to describe the New Okla., and features Native American actor Wes Studi, known for his work in World of European Americans and the homeland of Indigenous Americans. films like Dances With Wolves, Last of One of her favorite poems charts the the Mohicans and Avatar. The Dome history of the Hopewell Indians as they of Heaven is about a young native girl traveled from the Hopewell Mounds in who goes to college despite the povOhio to Kansas. “I like that poem be- erty of her family and low self-esteem. cause it is about where I live right now,” “It’s a story I’ve seen a lot in my travels,” Glancy says. “It’s partly my own Glancy says. Along with her travels, Glancy story, also.” The Dome of Heaven won the best makes a point to read other poets and doesn’t think you can write unless Native American f ilm at the Trail you are aware of what’s being writ- Dance Film Festival in Duncan, Okla., ten. “Writing is kind of a long conver- in January. There will be a screening sation,” she says. “I read something, of the f ilm Friday afternoon at the it sparks a thought in me, and so I Festival of Books.

Non-Fiction

Luis Escobar

TRAVELIN’ MAN

Christopher McDougall

Reinventing Running

unning was once a painful necessity for Christopher McDougall. “I’d do the bare minimum, just to burn off whatever pizza or ice cream I had eaten the night before, and I kept getting hurt,” he says. “I saw doctors who kept telling me running is bad for the body.” The injuries mounted, and by 2001 he had given up running. So imagine his surprise three years later when he discovered the Tarahumara Indians, known for running hundreds of miles while suffering nary a shin splint. McDougall was on assignment in Mexico for The New York Times Magazine when he heard about the tribe that lives deep within the Copper Canyons. He read of their amazing ability to run through some of the most rugged country in North America while wearing sandals made from old automobile tires, and had one question: “How is it that these guys are running 150 miles at a time, and I can’t do five miles a couple times of week without getting hurt?” McDougall writes about his quest for answers in his book Born to Run. “I figured they had some kind of trick, or a handy tip,” he says. “I thought they

were up to something that the rest of us could learn. I didn’t realize at the time that it was so much more profound than that. I didn’t realize they were the custodians of this ancient heritage that all of us share.” He learned that everything he had been told about running was wrong. For years, he’d heard that running was unnatural, and a hazardous form of exercise. But no one told the Tarahumara. McDougall discovered that a Tarahumara race champion once ran 435 miles. Others have run 300 miles. Tribal octogenarians often run up to 80 miles, and enjoy a remarkable level of health. And American researchers had data that supported what he found in Mexico: humans really are born to run. “This is the greatest natural advantage that humans have,” he says. “The only reason we’re around today is because we are such awesome long distance runners. It’s only been in our lifetimes that running has become associated with fear and pain and injury. Throughout most of human history, it’s been associated with the exact opposite: eternal youth, vigor and vitality. And that’s what it’s become for me, too. Running is this easy, natural, fun thing to do.”

Ian Frazier grew up in Ohio, but has long been fascinated by the wideopen spaces of the West. He published a book about the Great Plains in 1989, and followed it 11 years later with a book about the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. His most recent book, Travels in Siberia, took him even farther. “The Great Plains had a lot of connections to Russia, so I thought, ‘Just keep on going,’” he says. “‘I’ll go all the way west and end up in the Far East.’” In the mid-1990s, Frazier moved from New York City to Montana to research Pine Ridge and Siberia. He regularly alternated 14-hour drives to South Dakota and lengthy flights to Russia. “Everybody goes to Italy, or the south of France. They don’t tend to go to Siberia,” Frazier says. “It used to be a great destination for adventure travel in the 19th century, and I wanted to revive that tradition.”

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Children DISPELLING STEREOTYPES Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve began writing for children because she was bothered by inaccurate portrayals of Native Americans in books her daughter brought home from school. “Children really believe what they read,” Sneve says. She has since worked to dispel stereotypes. Her first book, Jimmy Yellow Hawk, was published in 1972. She’s subsequently published over 26 books, numerous short stories, articles and poems. Sneve plans to talk about how Native Americans have evolved in children’s literature. Sneve grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation and taught in Rapid City for many years. Her new book, My Christmas Coat, recollects her holiday experiences on the Rosebud.

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Lit.

Kaya and the Nez Perce People

ifteen years ago, editors of what I first wrote because I was writthe popular American Girl ing for adults,” Shaw says. Fortunately, editor Jeanne Thieme invited her for series began hearing from a crash course in writing for children. readers who wanted stories about a Native American “Basically you want the kids to take the girl. Janet Shaw was thrilled books to bed with them at night with a when editors chose her to pen the sev- flashlight,” she says. She stresses that children have a fierce en-book series. desire for stories that American Girl are enticing or fearful. researched several “You become addicted tribes and chose to to writing stories with base the stories on a lot of action and the Nez Perce of the a lot of drive,” says Pacif ic Northwest. Shaw. “I loved the They assembled an challenge.” advisory board of The most difficult tribal members and part was making the an anthropologist. stories authentic. “We “The books had to had to be very careful be authentic to the with plotlines because time and the people,” there are so many othShaw says. er people involved — the artist, the reShaw wrote the series from stories told to her by tribal members. She em- searcher, the advisory board,” she says. phasizes that this is nothing you can “If it wasn’t right I had to go back and rewrite it.” learn from Google. “You can search Her favorite story is Kaya and the the Internet and learn how to tan a hide or ride a horse,” Shaw says, “but what Lone Dog: A Friendship Story. Kaya we needed were the people’s memo- grieves the death of her mentor, Swan ries, their experiences, their hopes and Song. She must step away from her food preparation duties so her grief fears.” does not get into the food. Kaya beShaw greatly admires the Nez Perce people and loves talking about the se- friends a half wolf, half dog while she is away from her people, but eventuries. But she almost didn’t get to write ally releases the animal. “Learning the books. She was teaching at the to let go is a big thing for a child, or University of Wisconsin when friend even an adult, to learn,” says Shaw. “I Pleasant Rowland founded American Girl in 1986. Rowland asked her could easily imagine myself into the relationship between Kaya and the to submit a manuscript about a Scandinavian girl. “They didn’t like Lone Dog.”

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SATURDAY 11:00 to 11:45 AM~ SPECIAL EVENT- HARCC ~ “Kaya and Her People: American Girl Party” American Girl series author of the Kaya stories Janet Shaw will host a tea party for children and adults. Recommended for ages 8 and over. Children are encouraged to bring a doll. TICKET REQUIRED ($10)

Fiction THE MYSTERIOUS WEST

Danielle Sosin

Lake Superior’s Power

he main character in Dan- water. They ponder and experience the ielle Sosin’s novel The lake’s power and mystery and rely on it in practical and profound ways.” Long-Shining Waters is Sosin spent eight years on the book. La ke Super ior, a m i n iocean that has intrigued The first 18 months were devoted to the author nearly all her research. She learned about the lake’s life. She first saw the lake as a 5-year- geology, ancient copper mines, the old on a family vacation and felt in- Indians who lived there centuries ago, stantly connected. “It is a singularly shipwrecks and the logging industry. Then she moved to Duluth on the powerful place,” she says. “I’ve heard people talk of the Black Hills that way. lake’s southwestern shore. She found an apartment in an old schoolhouse It has a palpable juju about it.” The Long-Shining Waters weaves with four, 10-foot windows overlooking the lake. “I just wanted to have the stories of three different women the lake out my window,” she says. “I living around Lake Superior in three could see all the subtleties and shades, eras. There’s Grey Rabbit, an Ojibwe woman living in 1622, Berit (and her so that was very helpful.” Sosin became interested in writhusband Gunnar) in 1902 and Nora in 2000. Each confronts problems, yet ing in her late 20s. She was in graduate school studying to be a psycholare connected to each other and to the ogist when she enrolled in writing lake, the one constant presence. “Lake Superior is holding its histo- classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, her hometown. “I ry,” she says. “Literally, as in all the stuff down there, but more impor- thought I would open a small practantly in a watery, subconscious way, tice, maybe write in the morning and see people in the afternoon,” she says. so that everything that has happened in and around the lake is held there, “But that wasn’t the reality of the proand that affects the people who live fession. So I stuck with the writing and on its shores. The characters dream started working in restaurants.” Sosin still lives in Duluth. She is fragments of each other’s lives, have also the author of Garden Primitives, similar dreams and feel each other’s a collection of short stories. presence, or some presence held in the

C.J. Box was born and raised in Wyoming, a place he showcases in his Joe Pickett mystery series. “I grew up searching for novels that reflected my experience and background,” Box says. “There weren’t many. I thought it important to portray the West from the inside out instead of being influenced by authors who focused on the mythic.” Pickett is an idealistic game warden who’s had to confront environmental terrorists and cowboy hit men against the beautiful backdrop of cool Wyoming streams and rugged mountains. And though Box’s tales are fictional, they are woven around contemporary issues like endangered species, wind power and mineral rights. “I think all novels should be about something,” he says. “It’s important that readers feel they’ve been exposed to an issue or a topic they hadn’t read about before, or considered in a balanced way.”

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W r i t e r s S u pp o r t WRITERS DON’T JUST WRITE When Ann Charles finished her first book, she quickly realized there was still work to do. “You are not just a writer,” Charles says. “You are an entrepreneur. To be successful, you have to treat writing like a business. That means learning not just the craft of writing, but also marketing, promotion, sales, accounting and everything else small business owners have to learn to be successful. Creating a book is just part of the equation.” Charles lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she is a technical writer and novelist. She has written two Deadwood mysteries. They follow Violet Parker, a realtor with two children who investigates strange happenings. Charles spent summers as a teenager with her mother in Deadwood. The idea for her series came when she revisited the Hills while pregnant with her second child.

S.D. ARTS COUNCIL PROMOTES THE IMPORTANCE OF CREATIVITY IN THE LIVES OF ALL SOUTH DAKOTANS.

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John Dufresne

Talk to Your Characters

ohn Dufresne knows what he needs when reading a novel. “I want to feel something,” he says. “I want to be moved by the book. I want to fall in love with the characters. I want to have some kind of intense emotional experience by the time it’s over.” So how does the writer create a novel that moves readers? Dufresne confronts that question daily in his own writing and as a creative writing teacher at Florida International University in Miami. Getting there requires discipline. He recommends writing (and writing a lot) every day. If you do that, and follow his newest writing guide, Is Life Like This?, you’ll have a first draft in six months. But he stresses that is simply a starting point. “The good stuff happens when you have the first draft and you can begin to revise,” Dufresne says. “You read it again, take notes, look at the opportunities you gave yourself, look at the themes you didn’t even know you were exploring and you try to make them resonate.” Writers should immerse themselves in their story and always keep a notebook nearby. That’s where storylines develop, themes emerge and where writers have important conversations

with their characters. “You need to know a lot about your characters that your reader doesn’t necessarily know,” Dufresne says. “Find out what their dreams and aspirations are. It’s like getting to know people. Then you know how they will act.” Writers can also learn by reading. Dufresne recommends reading works by authors you admire. And read them more than once. “Read it the f irst time just to let it happen, and then go back and read it again. Now you know where the journey took you, so you can pay attention to how it got you there.” Dufresne considers writing an eternal apprenticeship. “You never get to really master it,” he says. “You’re always learning, building on what you’ve written, what you’ve learned from other writers. It’s a craft that takes longer to learn than you have to live. But I like that, because I’ve always got something to shoot for.” Dufresne is also the author of The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction, the novel Requiem, Mass., and numerous short stories and screenplays. He collaborated with other Florida writers on a collection of short stories called Naked Came the Manatee.

H istory /T ribal W riting Crazy Horse: The Quiet Warrior

oseph Marshall III was six years Oral history is the basis of old when he first heard the name Marshall’s biography The Journey of Crazy Horse. He was with his Crazy Horse: A Lakota History, the grandfather and a cousin cut- 2011 One Book South Dakota selecting logs along the Little White tion. Marshall’s book is unique beRiver. The men stopped to rest, cause it is written from an American rolled cigarettes and told stories about Indian perspective. Lakota people, Tasunke Witko, or His Crazy Horse, and his battle against Pehin Hanska, he says, view Crazy Horse differor Long Hair, the Lakota name for ently than non-American Indians. George Custer. Marshall learned such “He is our hero,” Marshall says. “We stories growing up on the Rosebud In- don’t focus on the warrior persona that seems to appeal to other culdian Reservation.

“They all knew bits of information about him,” Marshall recalls. “What he looked like, the kind of horse he rode, how good he was with his bow and arrow. But what struck me later, as a young adult, was that a lot of the stories weren’t about his exploits and leadership as a warrior, but that he was a very quiet person. He was humble, and he went out of his way to take care of people who didn’t have much.”

tures, the fighting man or the conqueror of Custer. There are other aspects of him that we perceive to be just as important.” Marshall’s book is a Lakota hero story, presenting Crazy Horse “as a total human being with faults and virtues,” he says. He doesn’t ignore Crazy Horse’s courage and his battlefield heroics. But he writes just as poignantly about the devastation Crazy Horse felt after the death of his daughter, and how he broke down when he discovered a friend mortally wounded after a battle. “Those are the things that resonate with me,” he says. “It points out the fact that he was very human. He wasn’t this lofty guy that could suck it up and handle anything. Eventually we all do that, but we all go through the process of grieving, and he did the same thing.” Marshall has written nine books on Lakota culture, three novels and several short stories, and was the technical advisor and narrator for the television mini-series Into the West. He also co-founded Sinte Gleska University in Rosebud.

AMANDA CLEMENT STILL INSPIRES Marilyn Kratz first wrote about Amanda Clement in the 1980s. But the story of the girl from Hudson, South Dakota, who became the world’s first female professional umpire, never left her mind. Last year she teamed with Sioux Falls illustrator Hector Curriel to write a children’s book about Clement called Umpire in a Skirt. “Her story is too important to not be a part of what South Dakota children learn as they grow up,” Kratz says. “She is a South Dakota heroine, and she became famous when she was just 16 years old. It just seemed to me that children in our state could relate to her. She could be inspirational to children.” Kratz taught elementary school for 31 years. She has authored four books and over 500 articles, many for children’s publications.

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Presenters

LORI ARMSTRONG

www.loriarmstrong.com

Lori Armstrong’s first mystery novel, Blood Ties (2005), was nominated for a Shamus Award for Best First Novel by the Private Eye Writers of America. The second book in her Julie Collins mystery series, Hallowed Ground, was nominated for a Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original, a Daphne du Maurier Award and won the WILLA Cather Literary Award for Best Original Softcover Fiction. Shallow Grave was nominated for a High Plains Book Award, a Daphne du Maurier Award and was a finalist for the WILLA Cather Literary Award. The fourth book, Snow Blind, won the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America for Best Paperback Original. Armstrong, a fourth generation South Dakotan, lives in Rapid City.

HARRY BLISS

www.harrybliss.com

Harry Bliss is a cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine. Bliss has also illustrated dozens of book covers for writers such as Lawrence Block, Dorothy Uhnak, Bob Dole, and Fiona Buckley. His first children’s book, A Fine, Fine School by Newberyaward winning author Sharon Creech, was a New York Times bestseller. Bliss went on to illustrate Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller. He lives in South Burlington, Vt.

COLLEEN BALDRICA

C.J. BOX

Colleen Moran Baldrica is a Chippewa (Ojibwe) Tribe member of the Pembina Band, from the White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota. Inspired by the teachings of her grandmother, she carried that wisdom into her career. She has worked for more than 28 years in public education, and holds advanced degrees with an emphasis in school counseling. Baldrica has lived her entire life in the St. Croix River Valley. She resides in Stillwater, Minn., with her husband.

New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box is the author of 13 novels, including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction. Blood Trail was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin (Ireland) Literary Award. Blue Heaven and Nowhere To Run have been optioned for film. Box lives in Wyoming.

www.colleenbaldrica.com

LAURAL BIDWELL

www.thewildburro.com

On a road trip across the plains, Laural Bidwell glanced at her map and realized she was within an hour of South Dakota, a state she’d never visited. She headed for the border town of Ardmore to get gas and stay the night. There was no gas station and no motel. She forged on to Hot Springs, where 14 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

she got gas, found a room to rent and discovered the Black Hills. Now owner of The Wild Burro Bookstore in Hot Springs, Bidwell enjoys road trips, writing and spending time with her golden retrievers.

www.cjbox.net

SANDRA BRANNAN

www.sandrabrannan.com

After living in Wyoming, Washington, D.C., Washington state and Colorado, Sandra Brannan returned to her hometown in South Dakota. Brannan’s forthcoming titles in her Liv Bergen mystery thriller series are Widow’s Might and Noah’s Rainy Day. She enjoys working with relatives in the mining business and living in

the Black Hills with her husband, Joel.

TOBY BRUSSEAU

www.tobybrusseau.com

Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America. Charles has written several contemporary novels and series, and is toiling away on her next book.

of Nebraska in 1977-78 and was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at Stanford University in 1976. Cook-Lynn taught high school in New Mexico and South Dakota and was a visiting professor at the University of California at Davis. She spent most of her career at Eastern Washington University, where she was professor of English and Native American Studies.

Gary McInistry

Toby Brusseau grew up in the Black Hills. After graduating from the University of Montana, Brusseau traveled the world and found himself back MARGARET COEL in his home state taking photos. In www.margaretcoel.com 2009, Brusseau photographed locals Margaret Coel is the New York Times throughout the Black Hills. The proj- best-selling author of the acclaimed ect began as an experiment and blos- Wind River mystery series set among LORNA CROZIER somed into profiles of 10 people. The the Arapahos on Wyoming’s Wind www.lornacrozier.ca resulting book, entitled I Am South Da- River Reservation. The novels have As a child growing up in a prairie comkota, is a compilation of these people appeared on the bestseller lists of munity where the heroes were hockand their lives over one year. the New York Times, the Los Angeles ey players and curlers, Times, the Denver Post and the Rocky Crozier “never once Mountain News. Coel is a native Colothought of being a ANN CHARLES radan who writes in a small study in her writer.” While teachwww.anncharles.com ing high school EngAnn Charles writes mysteries full of home on a hillside in Boulder. lish, she published her mayhem, humor and a splash of ro- first poem in Grain mance. Charles has a ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN B.A. in English with an Elizabeth Cook-Lynn received a de- magazine and turned to writing. Her emphasis on creative gree in English and journalism from first collection, Inside in the Sky, was writing from the Uni- South Dakota State University in 1952, published in 1976. Since then, she has versity of Washington. a Masters of Education from the Uni- authored 14 books of poetry. She lives A winner of the Daphne versity of South Dakota in 1971, was in Saanich, British Columbia, where du Maurier Award for in a doctoral program at the University she teaches and is chair of the writing

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department at the University of Victoria.

CELIA RENSCH DAY Celia Rensch Day is the youngest of nine children. She has been an Avon lady, a nurse’s aide, a cook in a state hospital, and debarked trees to make telephone poles and fence posts at Four Mile Post and Pole, west of Custer. She became the first woman for Bison State Telephone Co. in South Dakota to do telephone installation and repair. For the past 25 years, she has done volunteer sewing for numerous charities. An avid traveler, proud mother and grandmother, she and her husband lived in California for 30 years before returning to her hometown of Ramona. Your Dog Is in the Bar is her first book.

PETE DEXTER Pete Dexter began his working life at a U.S. Post Office in New Orleans. He wasn’t very good at mail and quit, then caught on as a newspaper reporter in Florida, which he was not very good at, got married, and was not very good at that. In Philadelphia he became a newspaper columnist, which he was pretty good at, and got divorced, which you would have to say he was good at because it only cost $300. Dexter remarried, won the National Book Award and built a house in the desert so remote that there is no postal service. He’s there six months a year, pecking away at the typewriter, living proof of the adage “What goes around comes around” — that is, you quit the post office, pal, and the post office quits you.

ROGER Di SILVESTRO

Robert Darland

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Roger Di Silvestro is a senior editor at National Wildlife magazine and the author of In the Shadow of Wounded Knee and several nature books, including The Endangered Kingdom and Reclaiming the Last Wild Places. His article in Wild West magazine about Theodore Roosevelt won the 2010 West-

ern Writers of America Spur Award for short nonfiction. He lives near Washington, D.C.

VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK SNEVE

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve was born and raised on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe. She received her bachelor’s and master’s in 1954 and 1969, respectively, and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in 2008 from South Dakota State University. Her first book was released in 1972. Since then she has published 26 books, numerous short stories, articles and poems. She and her husband Vance have three children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

JOHN DUFRESNE

www.johndufresne.com

John Dufresne’s novels include Louisiana Power & Light, Love Warps the Mind a Little, Deep in the Shade of Paradise and Requiem, Mass. He has recently produced a writing guide entitled The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction. His short story “The Timing of Unfelt Smiles” was included in Miami Noir and in Best American Mystery Stories 2007. He teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.

LARISSA FASTHORSE

www.hoganhorsestudio.com

Larissa FastHorse (Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Lakota) grew up in South Dakota. Her first career was as a ballet dancer and choreographer, but she always loved writing. In Los Angeles she became involved with the Native American film community and spoke at film festivals and panels. In 2000 she was a delegate to the United Nations in Geneva, speaking on the power of film for Indigenous peoples. From her apartment in Santa Monica, FastHorse has written a variety of projects while serving as a panelist and nominator for The Film and Video Fellowships.

ROB FLEDER Rob Fleder joined Sports Illustrated as a senior editor in 1986, left in 1989, and returned in 1991 to become features editor. In 1995, he was promoted to assistant managing editor, and in 1996, to executive editor. Fleder earned a BA degree from Brown University, and an M.S.J. in journalism from Columbia University. He has worked at numerous publications including Esquire, Playboy and The National. He lives in suburban New York with his wife and three children.

IAN FRAZIER

http://us.macmillan.com/author/ ianfrazier

Ian Frazier is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1974, when he published his first piece in “The Talk of the Town.” A year later, the magazine ran his short story “The Bloomsbury

Group Live at the Apollo.” Since then, he has published numerous pieces in The New Yorker. Frazier is the author of eight books, including Great Plains (1989) and On the Rez (2000). His most recent book is Travels in Siberia (2011). Frazier lives in New Jersey.

DIANE GLANCY

www.dianeglancy.com

Diane Glancy is professor emeritus at Macalester College. Her latest collection of nonfiction is The Dream of a Broken Field. In 2011, two of her plays, The Bird House and The Reason for Crows, were given developmental readings at the La Jolla in San Diego and the American Indian Community House in New York City. Her latest collection of poetry, Stories of the Driven World, was published in 2010, the year she also made her first independent film, The Dome of Heaven, which won the Best Native American Film at the 2011 Trail Dance

Film Festival. She lives in Shawnee Mission, Kan.

STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES www.stephengrahamjones.net

Stephen Graham Jones is the author of Demon Theory, The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti and Ledfeather. His work has been included in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year vol.2, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and has been a finalist for The Shirley Jackson Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Black Quill. Jones grew up in West Texas, earned a doctorate at Florida State University and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

JUNE HARVEY

June was born and raised in Spearfish. In 1974, she graduated from Black Hills State College with a bachelor’s degree in education. She moved to Oregon in 1985 and taught math and physical education. Harvey lives with her husband Tom on a small farm near

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Creswell, Ore. Besides writing and helping with farm activities at TJ’s Big Horse Farm, she enjoys riding horses and watching her grandchildren play sports.

Lanniko Lee, the volume includes essays, poems and memoirs that seek to answer the question, “What do the Black Hills mean to you?”

www.hedgecoke.com

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 and the Mountains and Plains award for fiction book of the year. Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyo.

ALLISON HEDGE COKE

Wang Ping

Allison Hedge Coke has been an invitational featured performer in international poetry festivals and a foreign professional in poetry and writing for Shandong University in Wei Hai, China. An American Book Award winning 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.

PATRICK HICKS

www.patrickhicks.info/

Patrick Hicks is the author of five poetry collections, most recently This London (2010), and edited 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 and New Ohio Review. His stories have been nominated 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 Sioux Falls, where he is the writer-inresidence at Augustana College.

CRAIG HOWE, LYDIA WHIRLWIND SOLDIER & LANNIKO LEE

Since 1993 writers have gathered near Brookings County’s Oak Lake, preserving Native culture through the development of culture-based writing. The newest book from the Oak Lake Writers Society is He Sapa Woihanble, or Black Hills Dream. Edited by Craig Howe, Lydia Whirlwind Soldier and 18 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

CRAIG JOHNSON

www.craigallenjohnson.com

MARILYN JOHNSON Marilyn Johnson was born in St. Louis and has been writing since age 7. Her books include This Book Is Overdue! (dedicated to her parents) and The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries, which was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. In her spare time she writes poetry. She lives with her husband, Rob Fleder, and three children in Briarcliff, N.Y.

SUZANNE JULIN Suzanne Julin received her Ph.D. from Washington State University in Pullman. She works as a public historian for local, state, and national organizations, specializing in 20th-century South Dakota and western history. Her interest in Black Hills tourism was kindled when she was 11 on her family’s first vacation to the Hills from southeastern South Dakota.

BRUCE JUNEK & TASS THACKER 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.

SAM KEAN

www.samkean.com

Sam Kean spent years collecting mercury from broken thermometers as a kid, and now he’s a science 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. Kean is a correspondent for Science magazine. He has worked on fellowships in the United States and Europe, and was the runner-up

for the National Association of Science Writers’ award for best young science writer. The Disappearing Spoon is his first book.

MARY KOPCO

Mary A. Kopco is the director of the Adams Museum & House in Deadwood. She earned a master’s in history from James Madison University and has worked 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 also edited and wrote an introduction for the anthology Beyond Mount Rushmore: Other Black Hills Faces.

MARILYN KRATZ Marilyn Kratz has written over 535 stories, poems, and articles for over 80 magazines, mostly children’s publications such as Highlights, 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 written two picture books, a pictorial history book and a non-fiction children’s book. She is a retired elementary teacher.

ERNIE LaPOINTE Ernie LaPointe was born in 1948 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. LaPointe is a sun dancer and lives the traditional way of the Lakota, following the rules of the sacred pipe. In 1992, he spoke at the induction of Sitting Bull into the Hall of Fame of American Indian Chiefs in Oklahoma. Since then, he has had numerous invitations from Crazy Horse Memorial and the Little Bighorn Battlefield to speak about his heri-

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tage. LaPointe’s book, Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy, published in 2009.

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 articles on military history, aviation, naval and general history.

WALTER LITTLEMOON & JANE RIDGWAY

Walter Littlemoon grew up, and lives now, in Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For 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, Littlemoon 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 impact.

MERLYN MAGNER

Merlyn Magner was born in Flint, Mich., in 1952. At the age of seven she and her family moved to Rapid City, 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 to the Black Hills in 2007 and began work on Come Into the Water, her first book. She lives in the Ozark Mountains.

BRENDA K. MARSHALL

www.brendamarshallauthor.com

Brenda Marshall was born on a farm in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota. She left the state after college, and has lived in Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Washington, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and for the past 14 years, Michigan. Marshall has a Ph.D. in English, and teaches part time 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 written a book of scholarship, Teaching the Postmodern: Fiction and Theory.

JOSEPH MARSHALL III

www.thunderdreamers.com

Joseph Marshall III was raised on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation and is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) tribe. Marshall taught high school and college, developed native studies curriculum and is a co-founder of Sinte Gleska University. Now he writes full time, having published nine nonfiction works, three novels, a collection of short stories and essays and has written several screenplays. Marshall and his wife Connie (also his literary agent and manager) are the parents of a blended family of nine, and have 16 grandchildren.

BARBARA MARSHAK

C HRISTOPHER McDOUGALL

Barbara Marshak is the author of Hid-

Christopher McDougall won the Clar-

www.barbaramarshak.com

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den Heritage: The Story of Paul LaRoche, the inspiring biography of the acclaimed Native American recording artist. Marshak 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 periodicals such as Guideposts, Minnesota Monthly and Lake Country Journal. She is a member of The Loft, Backspace, and Authors Den, and lives in Minnesota.

www.chrismcdougall.com

ion Award in 2002 and became fluent in Spanish and Portuguese as an overseas correspondent for the Associated Press, spending months in Africa reporting on 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, and New York. He lives in rural Pennsylvania.

DON MONTILEAUX

www.donaldfmontileaux.com

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 career. His art appears on the cover of six books, is included in numerous public and private collections and has been featured in galleries in New Mexico,

Minnesota, Arizona, Colorado and South Dakota.

CHARLES NAUMAN

Charles Nauman’s poetry has 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 in 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. Nauman and his wife, Grete Bodøgaard, a tapestry artist, split time between Norway and their live-in studio, a renovated bank building, in Volin, S.D.

KENT NERBURN

www.kentnerburn.com/

Kent Nerburn was born and raised

near Minneapolis. After earning a doctorate in religious studies from the Graduate Theological Union, in conjunction with the University of California in Berkeley, he returned to the pine and lake country of northern Minnesota. For several years he worked on the Red Lake Ojibwe reservation helping students collect memories from 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.

SUSAN POWER

Susan Power is a Standing Rock Sioux author from Chicago. She earned her bachelor’s and law degrees from Harvard University. After a short career in law, she became a writer, earning an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her 1995 novel, The Grass Dancer, received the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction. Power has written several other books, and her short fiction has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, Voice Liter-

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ary Supplement, Ploughshares, Story and The Best American Short Stories of 1993. She teaches at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn.

MARGARET PRESTON

Margaret Preston is chair and associate professor in the history department at Augustana College. She received her bachelor’s degree from Loyola University, New Orleans, master’s from University College Dublin and her Ph.D. from Boston College. She teaches Western Civilization, Modern Europe, World War I and Modern Irish History. Preston is the author of Charitable Words: Gentlewomen, Social Control and the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin (2004) and A Journey of Faith, Destination of Excellence: Avera McKennan Hospital’s First Century of Caring (2010).

BEN RADCLIFFE Ben Radcliffe served as a South Dakota State Representative from 1952 to 1962. He became President of the South Dakota Farmers Union in 1961 and presided for 20 years, serving as chairman of the National Farmers Union Executive Board during that period as well. In 1997 he was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame and the South Dakota Co-op Hall of Fame. Since 1981 he has held the position of President Emeritus of the South Dakota Farmers Union. Radcliffe lives in Huron.

MARC RASMUSSEN

Marc Rasmussen is a fourth generation South Dakotan, born in Aberdeen and raised in Hecla. A 1981 graduate of the University of South Dakota and a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School and the MBA’s School of Mortgage Banking, Rasmussen has enjoyed a 30-year career in banking. His first book was written in support of his father’s nomination to the South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame. Rasmussen has a variety of interests including aviation, motorcycling, carpentry, historical research, hunting, fishing and travel. He and his wife Gail live in Seattle. 22 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

DELPHINE RED SHIRT Delphine Red Shirt spent her earliest years off the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in a small town in northern Nebraska, where she attended public school and learned English. Red Shirt has been a freelance writer and syndicated columnist for Indian Country Today, the Lakota Nation Journal and the Hartford (Conn.) Courant. She is a student in the doctoral program in Native American Studies at the University of Arizona. Red Shirt and her husband, Richard, have three children.

JIM REESE

www.jimreese.org

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. Reese has been the National Endowment for the Art’s Writer-in-Residence at the Yankton Federal Prison Camp since 2008.

GARY SCHMIDT

http://us.macmillan.com/author/ garyschmidt

Gary Schmidt is the author of many 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. Schmidt teaches writing at Calvin College and lives with his wife, author Elizabeth Stickney, and their six children on a farm in Alto, Mich.

JANET SHAW

Janet Shaw attended Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., and Goucher College in Baltimore, where she won

ated and designed authentic costumes for film, western artists, and documentaries and lectured at museums and historical re-enactments.

ily and worrying over the fact that he really should be writing instead of doing other stuff. He lives in Michigan with his wife and two children.

www.daniellesosin.com

Christine Stewart-Nuñez is the author of Keeping Them Alive, Snow, Salt, Honey, Postcard on Parchment, Unbound & Branded and The Love of Unreal Things. She teaches English at South Dakota State University.

DANIELLE SOSIN

www.cathyasmith.com

Danielle Sosin is the author of the novel The Long-Shining Waters and Garden Primitives, a collection of stories. 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.” She lives in Duluth, Minn.

Cathy Smith is 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 ranch in western South Dakota led to her relentless pursuit of the authentic West. She has written non-fiction and screenplays, consulted on many Western films, cre-

Michael 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 fam-

CATHY SMITH

MICHAEL SPRADLIN

www.michaelspradlin.com

CHRISTINE STEWART-NUÑEZ

MARK ST. PIERRE Mark St. Pierre has lived and taught on the Pine Ridge Indian 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. St. Pierre is also involved in documentary film and the Native recording industry.

Cedric N. Chatterley

Mademoiselle magazine’s Short Fiction Contest in 1959. She later earned a master’s degree in English at Cleveland State University. Shaw is the author of the Kaya and Kirsten books in The American Girls Collection. She has published two books of poetry‚ a collection of short fiction and an adult novel‚ Taking Leave. Her short stories have also been published in The Atlantic Monthly‚ Redbook‚ and McCall’s. She lives in Asheville‚ N.C.

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ANN WEISGARBER

Christine Meeker

www.annweisgarber.com

Ann Weisgarber has been fascinated by the gritty spirit of pioneer homesteaders since her first childhood trip to the American West. After graduating from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, she was a social worker in a psychiatric hospital before moving to Houston with her husband, Rob. Inspired by a cookstove in a South Dakota sod dugout and a photograph of an un-

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named woman, Weisgarber spent seven years writing The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. She splits her time between Sugar Land, Texas, and Galveston, Texas.

C.M. WENDELBOE

www.spiritroadmysteries.com

In the 1970s, C.M. Wendelboe worked in South Dakota towns bordering three Indian reservations. He worked the streets and assisted federal and tribal law enforcement agencies embroiled in conflicts with American Indian Movement activists. He moved to Gillette, WY, where he remained a sheriff’s deputy for over 25 years. He served successful stints as police chief, tactical team member, and other supervisory roles for several agencies during his 38-year career. He was a patrol supervisor when he retired to pursue writing.

DAVID WOLFF

Black Hills State University hired David Wolff in 1998 to be the school’s Black Hills, South Dakota, and West-

ern history specialist. Wolff has spent many summers investigating Black Hills ghost towns and abandoned mines. His research focuses on natural resource exploitation, especially with regard to gold and coal, and on Black Hills history in general. After publishing his biography of Seth Bullock, Wolff began researching violence in the Black Hills.

ALEXI ZENTNER

www.alexizentner.com

Alexi Zentner’s first novel, Touch, was published in 2011. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly, Narrative Magazine, 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. Zentner was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario, and lives in Ithaca, N.Y., with his wife and two daughters.

Laurie Willick

SUSAN TURNBULL Susan Turnbull is an award-winning advertiser, marketer and graphic designer from Rapid City. She has illustrated several books for children and adults, and is also part of a toy inventors group in New York. Her artwork is in several private collections throughout the U.S., and she has been featured in galleries and exhibits in South Dakota, New York, and New Mexico.

Schedule of E ve nts

SPECIAL EVENTS WEDNESDAY, Oct. 5 – SATURDAY, Oct. 8 All day ~ “Great Black Hills Plein Aire Paint Out” – S.D. Artists will be painting on the streets of Deadwood.

THURSDAY, Oct. 6 6:30 – 8:00 PM ~ Roundhouse Restaurant in Lead, Festival Kickoff Event “Ignite: South Dakota” – Join us for an evening featuring a series of fast-paced, energetic 5 minute presentations by festival authors. Hosted by 9 Clouds Inc.

FRIDAY, Oct. 7 12:30 – 2:30 PM ~ Franklin Hotel Gold Room 1 & 2, “The Dome of Heaven” – Join author/director Diane Glancy for a screening and discussion of her awardwinning film. 3:00 – 4:30 PM ~ Deadwood Pavilion/ Chamber of Commerce, “He Sapa Woihanble: Black Hills Dream Book Release” – Editor Craig Howe hosts a conversation about the Oak Lake Writers’ new publication. 4:00 – 5:00 PM ~ Deadwood Pavilion/ Chamber of Commerce, “Early Bird Book Signings” 6:00 – 8:30 PM ~ Martin & Mason Hotel, 1898 Ballroom, “Literary Feast: An Evening of Crime and Mystery” – Join Lori Armstrong, CJ Box, Margaret Coel, Craig Johnson, and Jim Reese. Hosted by Sandra Brannan. TICKET REQUIRED ($45) 7:00 – 9:00 PM ~ Franklin Hotel Gold Room 1 & 2, “Rock Garden Tour” – Join host Flowerman (Ted Heeren) and a talented group of musicians for a radio show, taped right here at the Festival of Books, live!

SATURDAY, Oct. 8 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ~ Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center, “Kaya and Her People: American Girl Party” – American Girl series author of the Kaya stories Janet Shaw will host a tea party for kids and adults. 26 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

Recommended for ages 8 and over. TICKET REQUIRED ($10) 12:30 – 1:30 PM ~ Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Travels in Siberia,” – Celebrated author and staff writer at The New Yorker Ian Frazier will discuss his most recent title, Travels in Siberia. Tickets not required—boxed lunches will be sold at the event by Pump House Coffee & Deli. 6:00 – 9:00 PM ~ Deadwood Mountain Grand, “Great Black Hills Plein Aire Paint Out wet sale” 6:00 – 9:00 PM ~ Deadwood Mountain Grand, “The Journey of Crazy Horse: Keynote Lecture from 2011 One Book South Dakota author Joseph Marshall III.” – Join us for the festival’s main event as we host a conversation with Lakota author Joseph Marshall III. A feed will begin at 6:00 and is open to festival-goers at no cost. The keynote lecture will follow at 7:30. Registration for the free feed is required prior to Sept. 20.

SUNDAY, Oct. 9 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM ~ Lead-Deadwood Elementary Room 256, “Writing Marathon” – Discover a goldmine of words inside you at the Dakota Writing Project’s 2011 Writing Marathon! Write in a supportive atmosphere while exploring scenic Deadwood. Tickets for this event will be sold by the Dakota Writing Project—please contact Nancy Kampfe: nkampfe@rushmore.com 10:00 – 10:45 AM ~ The Lodge at Deadwood, Pine Crest Ballroom, “High Plains to Hollywood” – Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire novels, will talk about his foray into the hills of Hollywood. 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ~The Lodge at Deadwood, Pine Crest Ballroom, “Authors, Librarians, & Groupies” – A free-wheeling conversation between National Book Award winning author Pete Dexter and librarian groupie Marilyn Johnson about the future of books and why we need librarians more than ever.

FRIDAY, Oct. 7 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

(See page 26 for special events)

DEADWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY DOWNSTAIRS

FRANKLIN HOTEL EMERALD ROOM

FRANKLIN HOTEL GOLD ROOM 1 & 2

Writers’ Support Workshop, “Writing Children’s Literature,” – Notable children’s series author Michael Spradlin will conduct a workshop about writing appealing works for young readers. TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Writers’ Support Workshop, “Poetry” – South Dakota State University professor Christine Stewart-Nuñez will conduct a workshop about writing poetry. TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Writers’ Support Workshop, “Playwriting Workshop” – Professional playwright Larissa FastHorse will conduct a workshop on writing for the stage. TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Exhibitors’ Hall Open

Great Black Hills Plein Aire Paint Out

Friday 3:00 – 6:00 PM, Saturday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce

Wednesday – Saturday Artists will be painting on the streets of Deadwood Wet Sale Saturday 6:00 – 9:00 PM Deadwood Mountain Grand

SATURDAY, Oct. 8

LEAD-DEADWOOD ELEMENTARY GYM

LEAD-DEADWOOD ELEMENTARY AUDITORIUM

LEAD-DEADWOOD ELEMENTARY ROOM 256

“Sitting Bull: His Life & Legacy” - Ernie LaPointe

“Native American Children’s Literature” - Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

“Love, Hate and Baseball” - Rob Fleder

“And That’s the Way it Was” - Ben Radcliffe

10:00 to 10:45 AM

“I Am South Dakota” - Toby Brusseau

“Writing For Young Readers” - Gary Schmidt

“Desire, Decadence, and Discipline: Poetry Practice & Themes” - Christine Stewart-Nuñez

“Libraries Alive in the Digital Age” - Marilyn Johnson

11:00 to 11:45 AM

“Senator as Artist: Peter Norbeck and Custer State Park” - Suzanne Julin

“Avera McKennan’s First Century of Caring” - Margaret Preston

“Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir” - Lorna Crozier

9:00 to 9:45 AM

12:30 to 2:00 PM

“Off Like the Wind! The First Ride of the Pony Express” - Michael Spradlin

Afternoon Book Signings Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce

2:00 to 2:45 PM

“Writing Lasting Work Long in Print” - Mark St. Pierre

“Umpire in a Skirt” - Marilyn Kratz

“At Auschwitz: Doing Research at (and Writing About) a Nazi Concentration Camp” - Patrick Hicks

“The Spider’s Web: Spinning a Western Tale” - Margaret Coel

3:00 to 3:45 PM

“Making Film or Making Words” - Charles Nauman

“The Enchanted Buffalo” - Don Montileaux

“Healing Through Writing” - Colleen Baldrica

“From Romance to Violence in Western Writing” - Lori Armstrong

4:00 to 4:45 PM

“The Brain-Body Connection: The New Frontier” - Merlyn Magner

“A World Bicycle Tour” - Bruce Junek & Tass Thacker

“The Marvelous Black Hills: Regional Tourism Development Before World War II” - Suzanne Julin

“Selections from The Long-Shining Waters” - Danielle Sosin

5:00 to 5:45 PM

“Illustrating to Capture Our Imaginations” - Susan Turnbull

“The Disappearing Spoon: Wild and Oddball Science” - Sam Kean

“Experiencing Deadwood in the 1930s” - June Harvey (Saturday events continue on following page)

MASONIC TEMPLE 2ND FLOOR

FRANKLIN HOTEL EMERALD ROOM

FRANKLIN HOTEL GOLD ROOM 1 & 2

9:00 to 9:45 AM

“Reinventing Running: Reviving Ancient Secrets of the World’s Most Popular Sport” - Chris McDougall

“Preserving Family History” - June Harvey & Marilyn Kratz

“20 Career Tips for Emerging Authors” - Ann Charles

“They Called Me Uncivilized” - Walter Littlemoon & Jane Ridgway

10:00 to 10:45 AM

“The West In Mysteries” - CJ Box & Margaret Coel

“Seeking Heritage: Where Literature and Identity Intersect” - Colleen Baldrica & Barbara Marshak

“Practical Tips for Playwrights” - Larissa FastHorse

“Mythical Realism” - Alexi Zentner

11:00 to 11:45 AM

11:00 AM to 12:15 PM “Native Voice: A Female Perspective” - Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Diane Glancy, Larissa FastHorse, Allison Hedge Coke, Susan Power, Delphine Red Shirt

“Coloring Between the Lines: Early Influences on Festival Illustrators” - Harry Bliss, Don Montileaux, & Susan Turnbull

“Writing Your First Novel in Six Months” - John Dufresne

“The Challenges of Historical Biography” - Roger Di Silvestro & David Wolff

12:30 to 2:00 PM

12:30 to 1:30 PM “Travels in Siberia” - Ian Frazier (see page 26)

2:00 to 2:45 PM

“Landscape as Character: The Pressure of Place” - Ann Weisgarber & Alexi Zentner

“Literature & the Law” - Jim Reese, CM Wendleboe, & David Wolff

3:00 to 3:45 PM

“Death By Laughter: Cartoons and Books by a New Yorker Cartoonist” - Harry Bliss

“It Came From Del Rio: Noir & Horror” - Stephen Graham Jones

“The Disappearing Spoon: Wild and Oddball Science” - Sam Kean

4:00 to 4:45 PM

“Dexter on Deadwood” - Hosted by Paper Trails author Pete Dexter and editor Rob Fleder

“Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands” - Roger Di Silvestro

“The Hidden Heritage Journey” - Barbara Marshak

“The Demise of Tonto or Hollywood Meets the Sioux Nation” - Cathy Smith

“The Lie That Tells A Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction” - John Dufresne

“The Youngest Templar” - Michael Spradlin

5:00 to 5:45 PM

Afternoon Book Signings “Writing as a Hobby” - Sandra Brannan

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

“Intersections: The Art of Weaving Together Multiple Storylines” - Susan Power & Danielle Sosin

Attendees must register in advance to attend the Festival of Books. Register online at www.sdbookfestival.com or in person. Registration is free. Time and presenters are subject to change. Please check the Festival Survivor’s Guide (available at the Exhibitor’s Hall information booth or online at visit www.sdbookfestival.com) for updates.

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(See page 26 for special events) SILVERADO CLUBHOUSE

DEADWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY — MAIN FLOOR

DEADWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY — DOWN STAIRS

HOMESTAKE ADAMS RESEARCH & CULTURAL CENTER

SAINT AMBROSE CHURCH

“Neither Wolf Nor Dog” - Kent Nerburn

“Reading Stories of the Driven World” - Diane Glancy

“Pola: The Mysterious Communications of a Gone Woman” - Charles Nauman

“Writing About Rural South Dakota” - Celia Rensch Day and Marc Rasmussen

“Reimagining the Dakota Past” - Brenda K. Marshall & Ann Weisgarber

“This London: Reading and Writing About a City That Changed the World” - Patrick Hicks

“Come Into the Water: The Search for Meaning in an Unorganized World” - Merlyn Magner

“B-29s and the Korean Air War” - Lt. Col. George A. Larson

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM “The Art of Suspense” - Sandra Brannan, Ann Charles, CM Wendelboe & Stephen Graham Jones

“Selections from ghost on 3rd” - Jim Reese

“Theme Travel in the Black Hills” - Laural Bidwell

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM “Kaya and Her People: American Girl Party” - Janet Shaw (see page 26)

“The Wild, Wild West: How Many People Can You Kill In a Town of 25?” - Craig Johnson

Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce “Writing Spiritually on Native Issues” - Ernie LaPointe, Kent Nerburn, Walter Littlemoon & Jane Ridgway

“Labor Poetry and the Indigenous Built World” - Allison Hedge Coke

“Self Publishing & Marketing” - Toby Brusseau

“Poems from an Academic Life” - Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

“Dakota, or What’s a Heaven For” - Brenda K. Marshall

“Why Does Poetry Matter?” - Lorna Crozier

“Your Dog Is In The Bar” - Celia Rensch Day

“A Harvest of Words Roundtable: Poets Read from South Dakota’s First Anthology of Poetry” - Patrick Hicks, Allison Hedge Coke, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve & Christine Stewart-Nuñez

“Six: A Football Coach’s Journey to a National Record” - Marc Rasmussen

“Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood” - Delphine Red Shirt

“Beyond Mount Rushmore: Four Other Faces” - Mary Kopco

“What Kaya Can Teach Us” - Janet Shaw

Exhibitors Hall AUTHORS

Books by Terrall, Custer, SD

Elaine Babcock, Ellendale, ND www.dakotavistas.com Margaret Barnhart, Dickinson, ND www.underthetwistedcross.com Cecelia Rensch Day, Ramona, SD Adelaide Mackenzie Fuss, Rapid City, SD www.adelaidemackenziefuss.com Dillon Haug, Spearfish, SD Diana Howard, Dakota Dunes, SD H.R. Phillips, Rapid City, SD www.primeimmortals.com

MUSEUMS

Adams Museums & House, Deadwood, SD www.adamsmuseumandhouse.org South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD www.southdakotaartmuseum.com

ORGANIZATIONS

Brancato Domani Industries, LLC Rapid City, SD, www.brancatodomani.com

Center for Western Studies, Sioux Falls, SD www.augie.edu/cws Literacy Council of the Black Hills Rapid City, SD Rapid City Library Foundation Rapid City, SD

Steve Riedel Books, Huron, SD www.steveriedel.tateauthor.com

South Dakota Literacy Council, Volga, SD

Barbara Roseland, Seneca, SD

PRESSES

BOOKSELLERS

Ladybug Press, Spearfish, SD

Buckingham Books, Greencaslte, PA www.buckinghambooks.com

Living Justice Press, Saint Paul, MN www.livingjusticepress.org

Prairie Edge Trading Co. & Galleries Rapid City, SD

New Rivers Press, Moorhead, MN www.newriverspress.com

Zandbroz Variety, Sioux Falls, SD www.zandbroz.com

Penury Press, Minneapolis, MN www.penurypress.com

MEDIA

South Dakota State Historical Society Press Pierre, SD, www.sdshspress.com

South Dakota Public Broadcasting www.sdpb.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. – 6 p.m. 30 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

9th Annual October 7–9, 2011

Deadwood, SD

www.sdbookfestival.com • 605-688-6113

PRESENTING PARTNERS

A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OF THE DONORS AND VOLUNTEERS WHO SUPPORT SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL PROGRAMS. The Ament Group of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney • Black Hills Power • F.L. Clarkson Family Foundation • Deadwood Chamber of Commerce/Deadwood Pavilion • Deadwood Masonic Temple • Deadwood Mountain Grand • Deadwood Public Library • Tom & Sherry DeBoer • Franklin Hotel • First Interstate Bank and First Interstate Bank Foundation • Friends of the South Dakota Festival of Books • Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center • Lead-Deadwood School District • The Lodge at Deadwood • Tom & Jean Nicholson • Prairie Edge Trading Co. & Galleries • Scott & Linda Rausch • St. Ambrose Church Parish • Silverado Clubhouse • Jerry & Gail Simmons • South Dakota Magazine • Jack & Linda Stengel • Ann McKay Thompson • Bill Walsh • Zandbroz Variety Save the Date: 10th Annual South Dakota Festival of Books September 28 – 30, 2012

TRIBUTE SPONSORS

ONE BOOK GIVEAWAY SPONSORS