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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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AMEERAH BADER – illustrator of the cover and chapter headings – is a Palestinian-Tlingit poet and artist located in Boise, Idaho. They have been writing poems for ten years and drawing for nine. They have been published a handful of times and nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. Humor, identity, and tiny moments are at the forefront of Ameerah’s work. They use creativity to learn how to navigate spaces, places, and the sweetness of life. They work within the processes; they appreciate the unseen. Most recently they have been creating stop-motion animations with relief prints, as well as learning software development to bring interactivity into their artwork. In 2019 they graduated with two BFAs in printmaking and illustration from Boise State University. Their favorite pastimes are long walks, talks, and drawing all day. JOEL WAYNE is The Cabin’s Public Programs Manager, helming Readings & Conversations, Ghosts & Projectors, and other Cabin productions. With a background in content marketing and producing podcasts like You Know The Place and Reader’s Corner for NPR, Joel is a writer, irst and foremost, whose work can be seen in The Independent, The Moth, Salon, and elsewhere. While Judy Blume’s Then Again, Maybe I Won’t played a pivotal role in his younger years, if he could have dinner with any author, it’d have to be James Baldwin. Incorporated in 1996, THE CABIN is an anchor of literary arts in our state, serving as the only nonproit organization in Idaho devoted entirely to arts and educational activities that celebrate reading and writing. The Cabin serves children and adults with a variety of programs, including: writers-in-school residencies; summer writing camps; adult writing workshops; book discussions; writing contests; published anthologies; readings by local writers; and our annual Readings & Conversations series, which brings world-renowned authors to our city.

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THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS

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The Cabin is a Boise, Idaho literary arts organization. We forge community through the voices of all readers, writers, and learners.

Now in its fi fth consecutive season, COIN is The Cabin’s fundraiser through Idaho Gives Day on the fi rst Thursday of May every year. Local, regional, and national authors pen sentences as donors “purchase” them, generating a collaborative story that allows The Cabin to participate in Idaho’s largest state-wide fundraising event.

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