COIN - 2021

Izard Storyteller’s Choice Award and was named an Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Commended Title and one of the Wilde Awards Best Collections to Share.

Her screenplays placed irst in the Willamette Writers Kay Snow contest, as well as in the top percentage of the Cynosure, Phoenix Film Festival, Stage 32 Blood List, MORE Women in Film and Screenwriting Expo 5 competitions. She earned an Alexa Rose Foundation grant to produce and direct her original play. As a journalist for radio, television and newspaper, she earned several state and regional awards and was named a Newspaper Association of America New Media Fellow.

AMANDA RANTH is an activist, poet, performer, and visual artist whose background is in street theater and storytelling.

She enjoys blurring the lines between poetry and music, performer and audience. Ranth is the author of several chapbooks including Seeds and Sleepless Nights and Skinless Woman.

Her work has been showcased at Queer Gather of Nations in Albuquerque, New Mexico; One Flaming Arrow: Intertribal Art, Music and Film Festival in Portland, Oregon; and locally at MING Studios, Storyfort, and at the Boise Art Museum’s Tall Tales exhibit. An Idaho native, she currently resides in Nampa where she wanders the edges of wilderness with the Cooper’s hawks and swallow tails.

DEBRA MAGPIE EARLING is a Native American novelist, and short story writer. She is the author of Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajewea, which was on display at the Missoula Museum of Art in late 2011. Her work has also appeared in Ploughshares and the Northeast Indian Quarterly. Of the Bitterroot Salish (tribe), she is a graduate of the University of Washington, and holds both an MA in English and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Cornell University. Earling is currently a faculty member in the English Department at the University of Montana at Missoula.

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