2007 Festival of Books Presenters
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Sasha Abramsky
Sasha Abramsky is a freelance journalist. His work has appeared in The Nation; The
Atlantic Monthly; and Rolling Stone. Originally from England and a graduate of
Oxford University, he now lives in Sacramento, CA. He has a master's degree from
Columbia University School of Journalism. In 2000 he was awarded a Soros Society,
Crime, and Communities Media Fellowship, and he is currently a Senior Fellow at
the New York City-based Demos Foundation. His third book, American Furies:
Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment, was published
in the spring of 2007. His other titles are Hard Time Blues and Conned.
Saturday, 10 AM and 2 PM, Silverado
Lori Armstrong
Lori G. Armstrong left the firearms industry in 2000 to write crime fiction. Her first mystery novel, Blood Ties,
published in 2005, was nominated in 2006 for a Shamus Award for Best First Novel by the Private Eye Writers of America. The
second book in the Julie Collins mystery series, Hallowed Ground, was released in November 2006 and was nominated for a
2007 Daphne du Maurier Award for Best Mystery, a Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original of 2007 by the Private
Eye Writers of America, and was recently named the winner of the 2007 Willa Cather Literary Award for Best Original Softcover
Fiction, by Women Writing the West. The next book in the series, Shallow Grave, will be released in November 2007.
Armstrong lives in Rapid City with her family.
Saturday, 11 AM and 2 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor and 3 PM, Elementary Lower Lunchroom
Ellen Baker
Ellen Baker was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and grew up in Wisconsin, Illinois, and South
Dakota. She worked as a
museum curator, a costumed living history interpreter, and, most recently, as a bookseller
and event coordinator at an
independent bookstore. Her first novel, Keeping the House was published by Random
House in July 2007.
She lives with her husband in Wisconsin.
Saturday, 9 AM, Library Round Table Room; 1 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor and 3 PM, Elementary Upper Library
Ann Bausum
Ann Bausum writes American history books for children. She has wanted to be an author since
she was little, writing her first book at age
ten. After working in marketing, she turned to writing full time, publishing her first
book, Dragon Eggs and Dinosaur Bones in 2000.
She has also written Our Country's Presidents and With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote, which won
a Jane Addams Children's Book Award and recognition from the American Library Association.
Her latest book is Our Countries First Ladies that includes a forward by First
Lady Laura Bush. Her book Muckrakers will come out in September.
Saturday, 9 AM, Elementary Auditorium
Michelle Blankenship
Michelle Blankenship is the Director of Publicity at Harcourt in New York City. Among the
authors
she has worked with is South Dakota author Kent Meyers.
Saturday, 10 AM and 2 PM, Franklin Hotel Emerald Room; 11 AM Pavilion Board Room
Robert Bonner
Robert E. Bonner is professor emeritus of history from Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. He has
written articles for several publications about Buffalo Bill.
Saturday, 10 AM and 1 PM, Masonic Temple Upstairs
Daniel James Brown
Daniel James Brown is the author of Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of
1894.
He taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford and co-authored two
textbooks: Criteria for
Writers and Connections, A Rhetoric and Short Prose Reader. Brown is
a member of the Pacific
Northwest Writers' Association and the Authors' Guild. He lives near Redmond, Wash.
Saturday, 4 PM, Masonic Temple Upstairs
Jonathan Cohn
Jonathan Cohn is a senior editor at The New Republic, where he has been since 1997
and served for
two years as the executive editor. He writes about domestic politics and policy, with a
focus on issues related
to health care and social welfare. He’s a senior fellow at Demos and the author of
Sick: The Untold Story of
America's Health Care Crisis--and the People who Pay the Price. He lives in
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Saturday, 1 PM, Elementary Upper Library
Carolyn Digby Conahan
Carolyn Digby Conahan illustrated L. Frank Baum’s The Discontented Gopher, published
by the
South Dakota State Historical Society Press. She is a staff artist for Cricket
magazine, as well as author and illustrator of The
Twelve Days of Christmas Dogs. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.
Friday, 7 PM, Golden Hills Resort; Saturday, 3 PM and 4 PM, Elementary Auditorium
Emily Cook
Emily Cook is the marketing and publicity manager at Milkweed Editions. She has served as
ad program director for the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair and ran a literary
outreach program in Chicago Public Schools. She has presented around the region on establishing
book clubs and the power of community reading.
Saturday, 10 AM and 4 PM, Franklin Hotel Emerald Room; 1 PM, Pavilion Board Room
Kenneth C. Davis
Kenneth C. Davis is the author of The New York Times bestselling DON'T KNOW
MUCH ABOUT series featuring the Bible, the Civil War, history and geography.
Davis appears regularly on national television and radio. He lives in New York
with his wife and two children.
Friday, 7 PM, Golden Hills Resort; Saturday, 9 AM, Masonic Temple Downstairs
Pete Dexter
After working as a journalist for 15 years, Pete Dexter turned to book writing at age 40.
He is the author of Paris Trout, which won the
1988 National Book Award. In 2007, he released a collection of non-fiction
pieces entitled Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless
Violence, and Forbidden Desires, A Surprising Number of Which are Not About Marriage.
Dexter attended college at the University of South Dakota and
now lives in Washington.
Thursday, 5 PM, Canyon Lake Chophouse; Friday, 7 PM Golden Hills Resort; Saturday,
10 AM, Elementary Upper Library; 1 PM, Deadwood Public Library Downstairs; 8 PM Masonic Temple
Main Floor
Ivan Doig
Ivan Doig was born in White Sulphur, Montana, growing up the only child to his ranch hand father and
ranch cook mother, living along the Rocky Mountain Front where much of his writing takes place. Doig knew
he wanted to be a writer his junior year of high school. His most recent release is the 2007 One Book South Dakota selection
The Whistling Season. His first book, This House of Sky, was a finalist for
the National Book Award. Doig is a former ranch hand, newspaperman and magazine editor. He is a
graduate of Northwestern, where he received bachelors and master’s degrees in journalism and he also
holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington. He lives in Seattle.
Friday, 5:30 and 7 PM, Golden Hills Resort; Saturday, 10 AM Masonic Temple Main Floor
Kristin Donnan Standard
Kristin Donnan Standard co-authored Rex Appeal and the children's book Bones Rock. She lives in
Hill City, SD.
Saturday, 9 AM, Pavilion Board Room; 2 PM, Elementary Lower Lunchroom; 3 PM, Silverado
Cathie Draine
Cathie Draine edited the letters of her grandfather, George Philip in the book Cowboy Life: The Letters of George Philip.
Draine is a member of the South Dakota State University Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners and the Garden
Writers’ Association. She lives, writes and gardens in Black Hawk, SD.
Friday, 7 PM, Golden Hills Resort; Saturday, 11 AM, Masonic Temple Upstairs
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve is the author of children’s books, short stories, poems and essays about
American Indian history and lifestyles, including: The Trickster and the Troll; Completing the Circle; and
The Bad River Boys. In 2002, she received the National Humanities Medal and in 2007, she was
awarded a South Dakota Governor’s Award for the Arts. She lives in Rapid City.
Saturday, 11 AM, Elementary Auditorium; Sunday, 9 AM, Tatanka
Debra Magpie Earling
Debra Magpie Earling is the author of Perma Red. The book received the Western Writers Association
Spur Award for Best Novel of the West in 2003, the Mountain and Plains Bookseller Association Award,
WWA's Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for Best First Novel, a WILLA Literary Award, and the American
Book Award. It is a Montana Book Award Honor Book and was chosen by Barnes & Noble as part of its
Discover Great New Writers series. She is an associate professor in the English Department at the University
of Montana.
Saturday, 10 AM, Elementary Lower Lunchroom; 3 PM, Franklin Hotel Emerald Room; Sunday, 9 AM, Tatanka
David Allan Evans
South Dakota Poet Laureate David Allan Evans has authored six books of poetry and three books of essays,
including The Bull Rider’s Advice and Hanging Out with the Crows. He is Professor Emeritus of
English from South Dakota State University. He lives in Sioux Falls, SD.
Saturday, 2 PM, Deadwood Public Library Upstairs; 6:30 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor
Rob Fleder
Rob Fleder has been an editor at Sports Illustrated for two decades. In September, The Basketball Book will be
released. He has also edited Sports Illustrated: Great Football Writing and the New York Times 2004 bestseller, Sports Illustrated 50 Years: The Anniversary Book and Sports Illustrated: Fifty
Years of Great Writing 1954-2004 and Hot Shots: 21st Century Sports Photography. He recently finished editing a collection of Pete Dexter's
non-fiction work that was released in February 2007.
Thursday, 5 PM, Canyon Lake Chophouse; Friday, 7 PM, Golden Hills Resort; Saturday,
10 AM, Elementary Upper Library; 1 PM, Deadwood Public Library Downstairs
Greg Gagnon
Greg Gagnon is an associate professor in Indian Studies at the University of
North Dakota. His specialty is contemporary tribal government and federal policy.
He teams with Ellen Gagnon to offer Indians in Children's Literature as part of
the Indian Studies program at UND. He has conducted professional development
workshops on Indian Studies for elementary, secondary, and college level teachers
on reservations and for school systems in several states. Gagnon is an
enrolled citizen of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
Saturday, 9 AM Deadwood Public Library Downstairs
Tim Giago
Tim Giago, an Oglala Lakota, founded the Native American Journalists Foundation, Inc., and was
the publisher of Indian Education Today Magazine. He is the founder and former publisher of the Lakota
Times and Indian Country Today newspapers. He currently writes a weekly column that is
distributed nationally by McClatchy News Service. He is the author of several books, his latest is entitled
Children Left Behind, the Dark Legacy of the Indian Missions, which won the Bronze Star at the Independent
Publishers Awards.
Saturday, 11 AM, Elementary Upper Library; 1 PM, St. Ambrose Catholic Parish; Sunday, 9 AM
Tatanka
Mario Gonzalez
Mario Gonzalez practices law in Rapid City, SD. He is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and represents tribes
in South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah, Michigan, Nevada and Washington in trust funds/assets cases. He
is also General Counsel for the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. He is the author of The Politics of Hallowed
Ground: Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty. Gonzalez has won the Outstanding Defender of
Native American People Award and the Distinguished Aboriginal Lawyer Achievement Award.
Saturday, 1 PM, St. Ambrose Catholic Parish; Sunday, 9 AM, Tatanka
Nyla Griffith
Nyla Griffith resides in Deadwood, SD, and just released her debut novel, Lucky Strike.
She is married to Tom Griffith, and they own TDG Communications. She has contributed many non-fiction
pieces to Deadwood Magazine.
Friday, 7 PM, Golden Hills Resort; Saturday, 11 AM, Masonic Temple Main Floor; 3 PM,
Elementary Upper Library
Karen Hall
A graduate of South Dakota School of Mines, Karen Hall is a writer and environmental engineer
living in Rapid City. Her first novel, Unreasonable Risk, a thriller about sabotage in the oil
industry, was published in 2006. She has also published several short stories and travel pieces, and is
currently working on both a sequel to Unreasonable Risk and a stand-alone novel about infertility.
Saturday, 11 AM and 2 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor
Warren Hanson
Warren Hanson is an artist, writer, designer, speaker and musician. He is the illustrator of author Tom Hegg's classic,
A Cup of Christmas Tea, and four books about a bear named PEEF. He has written several books including
The Next Place, Older Love, Beginning, and Grandpa Has a Great Big Face. And his Kiki's Hats
will be new this fall. Warren is a native of Yankton, S.D. and now lives in St. Paul, Minn., and in Custer, SD.
Saturday, 9 AM, Silverado; 1 PM and 4 PM, Elementary Auditorium; 3 PM, Deadwood Public
Library Round Table Room
Andrew Helfer
Andrew Helfer writes graphic biographies. He has written one on Malcom X
and one on President Ronald Reagan, released in 2007. He has worked in the comic book industry
for over 25 years.
Saturday, 11 AM, Deadwood Public Library Downstairs; 2 PM, Pavilion Board Room
Patrick Hicks
Patrick Hicks is currently Associate Professor in the Department of
English at Augustana College in Sioux Falls. His work has appeared in over one
hundred international journals. He is an advisory editor for New Hibernia
Review and is the author of Traveling through History, Draglines, The
Kiss that Saved My Life and Finding the Gossamer. Aside from being
nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, he was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford.
Saturday, 2 PM, Deadwood Public Library Round Table Room; 4 PM, Deadwood Public Library Upstairs
Pamela Smith Hill
Pamela Smith Hill grew up in Springfield, Missouri, on a steady diet of Bible stories and old TV westerns. In
1994, she left the corporate world behind and started writing books for young adults. Her books include
Ghost Horses, The Last Grail Keeper and A Voice from the Border. She is presently writing a
full-length biography on Laura Ingalls Wilder. Smith Hill also teaches writing
classes at Washington State University. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Saturday, 11 AM, Masonic Temple Upstairs; 2 PM and 3 PM, Elementary Auditorium
Bill Holm
Bill Holm is the author of several books of essays and poetry, including
Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays, The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere
on Earch, Eccentric Islands: Travel Real and Imaginary and The Dead
Get By with Everything, all published by Milkweed Editions. A winner of the Minnesota
Book Award, Holm teaches at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota,
and spends his summers in Iceland, on the Arctic Circle.
Saturday, 11 AM, Elementary Lower Lunchroom; 1 PM, Deadwood Public Library Upstairs; 6:30 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor
Craig Howe
Craig Howe is a Lakota scholar and a member of the Graduate Program faculty at Oglala Lakota
College.
He is the author of several magazine articles, book reviews and the book Hate Speech,
Horses and Hostages:
The Untold Story of Lewis & Clark in Teton Territory. He also was an editor of the Oak
Lake Writers’ Society
book This Stretch of the River. Howe has a doctorate in Anthropology and Architecture
as is the former
director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History of the Newberry Library in
Chicago.
Saturday, 10 AM, St. Ambrose Catholic Church; Sunday, 9 AM, Tatanka
Bernie Hunhoff
Bernie Hunhoff's latest book, South Dakota Curiosities is a collection of short essays and travel tips that hep readers understand
South Dakota and enjoy their travels in the state. Hunhoff is the editor and publisher of South Dakota Magazine. He and his wife,
Myrna, live on a farm near Yankton. They have two adult children and a baby granddaughter, Laura.
Saturday, 11 AM, Franklin Hotel Emerald Room
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, an
international human rights organization. In 1977, she and her college roommate were the
victims of a violent attack and attempted
murder, 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
Saturday, 9 AM, Elementary Lower Lunchroom; 2 PM, Silverado; 8 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor
Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson's background in education and law enforcement gives a unique perspective to his
writing.
His first novel, The Cold Dish, was a DILYS Award Finalist, a BookSense pick and
Killer Pick by the
Independent Mystery Bookseller’s of America. Johnson’s second novel, Death Without
Company was one of
the five finalists for the Mountains and Plains Bookseller’s Association’s Fiction Book of
the Year, and was
the Wyoming Historical Society’s Fiction Book of the Year. He lives on a ranch near
Ucross, Wyoming.
Saturday, 11 AM, Deadwood Public Library Round Table Room; 3 PM, Elementary Lower Lunchroom; 4 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor
Marilyn Johnson
Marilyn Johnson recently published The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs and the Perverse
Pleasures of Obituaries. She has been a staff
writer for Life, and an editor at Esquire, Redbook and Outside. Johnson
has written obituaries for Princess Diana, Jacqueline
Onassis, Katherine Hepburn, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Marlon Brando.
Saturday, 11 AM, Silverado; 1 PM, Deadwood Public Library Downstairs; 3 PM, Franklin Hotel Emerald Room
Bruce Junek and Tass Thacker
Black Hills natives Bruce Junek and Tass Thacker have spent over 30 years bicycling and
exploring the world.
The couple has self-published three books; The Road of Dream, Andes to the Amazon and
Spearfish Canyon Limestone. In 2005 they bicycled through Egypt, Jordan, Greece and
Turkey. Rather than
publishing a book, they blogged their journal on their website, imagesoftheworld.com.
Bruce is currently
writing two books.
Saturday, 4 PM, Deadwood Public Library Downstairs
Katrina Kittle
Katrina Kittle has lived in the Dayton, Ohio area for most of her life. She now teaches 6th
and 7th grade
English at the Miami Valley School in Dayton. She is the author of Traveling Light and
Two
Truths and a Lie. Her third novel, The Kindness of Strangers, was released in
February of 2006.
It was selected as a BookSense pick for February, was the Fiction Book winner for the
2006 Great Lakes Book
Awards and has also been chosen as one of the five finalists for the Ohioan Book
Award in fiction. She is
closing in on the end of her fourth novel.
Saturday, 9 AM and 1 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor
Ted Kooser
In August 2004, Ted Kooser was named Poet Laureate of the United States. Born in Iowa,
Kooser now lives near Lincoln, Neb. While working in the
insurance industry, he wrote poems published in magazines. He eventually turned to writing and
teaching poetry full time. His latest release is
Brave and Free: Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing. Kooser has
won awards for his poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize in
2005, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and the Pushcart Prize.
Saturday, 6:30 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor
Mary Kopco
Mary Kopco is the Director of the Adams Museum & House, Inc. in Deadwood. She is passionate
about the
history of Deadwood and recently released The Adams House Revealed, a book that takes
an in-depth
look at the historic home.
Saturday, 3 PM, Masonic Temple Upstairs
Nancy Tystad Koupal
Nancy Tystad Koupal is the Director of Research and Publishing for the South Dakota State
Historical Society based in Pierre. She wrote the book Our Landlady and
edited the books Finding Lewis & Clark: Old Trails, New Directions
and Baum's Road to Oz: The Dakota Years.
Saturday, 11 AM, Franklin Hotel Emerald Room; 3 PM, Pavilion Board Room
David Laskin
David Laskin is the author of The Children's Blizzard: January 1888, which won the 2005
Washington State Book
Award. He most recently wrote a book about World War I. Laskin also wrote Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York
Intellectuals and Braving the Elements:
The Stormy History of American Weather. His writing has appeared in the New York
Times, the Wall Street Journal,
Preservation, and Smithsonian. He lives in Seattle.
Friday, 7 PM, Golden Hills Resort; Saturday, 2 PM, Masonic Temple Upstairs
Jamie Lee
Jamie Lee is the author of Washaka: The Bear Dreamer, a story based on a dream had by a
Lakota man,
Leon Hale. Together with her husband Milt, they operate Many Kites Press. They live in Rapid
City.
Milt Lee
Milt Lee is a Rapid City-based filmmaker. He works with his wife Jamie Lee for their press,
Many Kites.
Saturday, 9 AM, Franklin Hotel Emerald Room; 2 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor
Lanniko Lee
Lanniko Lee grew up along the Missouri River in South Dakota. She received her baccalaureate degree from Arcadia University and
a Master's in English from Middlebury College. She has published book reviews, articles, essays and poetry. Recently she contributed
to the book, This Stretch of the River: Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Responses to the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Bicentennial.
Saturday, 10 AM, St. Ambrose Catholic Parish; Sunday, 9 AM, Tatanka
Sonia Manzano
Sonia Manzano is a first-generation American of Latino descent who has affected the lives of
millions in
her role as "Maria" on Sesame Street. She also wrote for the show and has won 15 Emmy
Awards. Manzano has
also performed in theater productions and has written children's books. In 2004, she
wrote No Dogs Allowed
and in June 2007, she released her second book A Box Full of Kittens. She is currently
writing a memoir.
Friday, 12 PM, Pavilion Board Room; Friday, 7 PM, Golden Hills Resort; Saturday, 8 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor
Debra Marquart
Debra Marquart is an associate professor of English at Iowa State University. In the
1970s and 80s,
Marquart was a touring musician with rock and heavy metal bands. Her collection of short
stories, The
Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories, draws from her experiences as a female road musician.
Marquart continues
to perform with The Bone People. Marquart is the author of two poetry collections:
Everything's a Verb
and From Sweetness. Her memoir, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the
Middle of
Nowhere, was published in 2006, and she’s currently at work on a novel titled The
Olive Harvest.
Friday, 7 PM, Golden Hills Resort; Saturday, 10 AM, Deadwood Public Library Upstairs; 11 AM, Elementary Lower Lunchroom;
3 PM, Franklin Hotel Emerald Room
Joseph Marshall III
Joseph Marshall III, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, is the author of six books. His
book The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons
for Living was a finalist in the spiritual category for the prestigious Books for a
Better Life Award from the Multiple Sclerosis
Society, as well as a finalist in the creative non-fiction category for the PEN Center
USA award. His most recent work is Thunder
Dreamer: The Journey of Crazy Horse. Marshall has also appeared in TNT's "Into the West"
as well as "The Real West," a syndicated program on The
History Channel and served as technical consultant for a television movie and had a role in
"Return to Lonesome Dove."
Friday, 7 PM, Golden Hills Resort; Saturday, 11 AM and 1 PM, St. Ambrose Catholic Parish; 4 PM, Deadwood Public Library
Round Table Room; Sunday, 9 AM, Tatanka
Kent Meyers
Kent Meyers, an English professor and writer-in-residence at Black Hills State University in
Spearfish, writes both fiction and non-fiction. His most recent
novel, The Work of Wolves, won the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Award, a
Minnesota Book Award and was chosen as "One Book SD"
in 2005. Meyers' other books are The River Warren, a novel, The Witness of
Combines, a memoir and Light in the
Crossing, short stories.
Saturday, 10 AM and 2 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor
Marcia Mitchell
Marcia Mitchell is the co-author of The Spy Who Seduced America, which was named the
Counterintelligence Book of the Year in 2002. She is the former Secretary of Labor for
the State of
South Dakota and has published three other non-fiction books.
Saturday, 9 AM, Elementary Upper Library; 3 PM, Silverado
Donald Montileaux
Don Montileaux began aggressively pursuing his artistic dream in 1980. Since then, he has
received nearly
20 awards and commissions and attended over 25 major art shows. His art is illustrated on the
cover of six
books, and fills the pages of the children’s book entitled Tatanka, published by the
South Dakota State
Historical Society Press. Primarily a self-taught artist, Montileaux received formal
training at the
Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe and did an internship under noted artist
Oscar Howe at the
University of South Dakota. He is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe.
Saturday, 11 AM and 4 PM, Elementary Auditorium; Sunday, 9 AM, Tatanka
Paula Nelson
Paula Nelson is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville,
and author of
award-winning works about western South Dakota. She is author of After the West Was
Won: Homesteaders
and Town Builders in Western South Dakota. She wrote the introductions for Sunset
to Sunset: A Lifetime with
My Brothers, the Dakotas and Sunshine Always: The Courtship Letters of Alice
Bower and Joseph Gossage of
Dakota Territory.
Saturday, 9 AM, St. Ambrose Catholic Parish; 11 AM Masonic Temple Upstairs
Dan O'Brien
Dan O'Brien, a writer and buffalo rancher, is the author of numerous books of fiction and
non-fiction about the
West, including Buffalo for the Broken Heart. He has worked as an endangered-species
biologist and an
English teacher. He lives in Whitewood, SD.
Saturday, 2 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor; 4 PM, Elementary Upper Library
Jean Patrick
Jean Patrick writes non-fiction books for children. Her most recent book is Who Carved the
Mountain. Patrick is currently working on the book entitled Boom.
She is the author of four other books for kids and lives in Mitchell, SD.
Saturday, 10 AM, Elementary Auditorium
Susan Power
Susan Power is a writer and poet and a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. She received
degrees from Harvard/Radcliffe and Harvard Law School, and attended the Iowa Writers
Workshop. Power is the author of The Grass Dancer which won the PEN/Hemingway Award
in 1995.
Friday, 7 PM, Golden Hills Resort; Saturday, 11 AM, St. Ambrose Catholic Parist; 2 PM, Deadwood Public Library Downstairs
Jim Reese
Jim Reese is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Plains Writers' Tour at
Mount Marty College
in Yankton, S.D. He is co-founder of and Imagining Editor for Logan House Press. He is the
author of
Wedding Cake and Funeral Ham and The Jive. His most recent collection of poetry is
These Trespasses. Poems from this book were nominated for the Pushcart
Prize.
Saturday, 9 AM, Franklin Hotel Emerald Room; 11 AM, Deadwood Public Library Upstairs
David Romtvedt
David Romtvedt, Wyoming’s Poet Laureate, is the author of nine books of poetry and prose,
including
A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know, which won the National Poetry Series Award.
He is also a
member of the cajun musical group The Fireants, which has performed throughout the region.
He currently
teaches at the University of Wyoming.
Friday, 7 PM, Golden Hills Resort; Saturday, 9 AM, Deadwood Public Library Upstairs; 4 PM, Elementary Lower Lunchroom;
6:30 PM, Masonic Temple Main Floor
Thirty Umrigar
Thrity Umrigar is the author of the novels, The Space Between Us ,and Bombay
Time ,and the
memoir, First Darling of the Morning. In May 2007 she released Today Be Sweet. A long-time journalist, she now teaches
creative writing at Case
Western Reserve University. She holds a Ph.D. in English and was the recipient of the
Nieman Fellowship at
Harvard. She lives in Ohio.
Saturday, 9 AM, Masonic Temple Main Floor; 1 PM, Deadwood Public Library Round Table Room; 2 PM, Deadwood Public
Library Downstairs
Edward Valandra
Edward Valandra was born and raised in the Great Sioux Reservation. He has degrees in
Chemistry and
Political Science, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from SUNY Buffalo. He is a Sicangu
Lakota with interests in
tribal and public law and politics. He is the author of Not Without Our Consent.
Currently he is an assistant
professor in American Indian Studies at UC-Davis.
Sunday, 9 AM, Tatanka
Jay Vogt and Stephen Rogers
Jay Vogt and Stephen Rogers co-authored Picturing the Past: South Dakota’s Historic
Places. Vogt is director
of the South Dakota State Historical Society and the State Historic Preservation Officer.
He is currently president
of the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers and also serves on the
National Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation. Rogers is historic preservation coordinator with
the South Dakota State
Historical Society.
Saturday, 3 PM, Masonic Temple Upstairs
Spring Warren
Debut novelist and Wyoming native Spring Warren is a long-time painter and furniture maker who lives in Davis, California,
with her husband, historian Louis Warren, and their two sons. She recently had her debut novel
Turpentine published.
Saturday, 10 AM, Deadwood Public Library Round Table Room; 1 PM Franklin Hotel Emerald Room; 3 PM, Elementary
Upper Library
Louis Warren
Louis S. Warren is the W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at the
University of California, Davis. He is the author of
Buffalo Bill’s America and The Hunter’s Game: Poachers and Conservationists in
Twentieth-Century America,
which won the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Book, awarded by the
National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western
Heritage Center.
Saturday, 10 AM, Masonic Temple Upstairs; 1 PM Franklin Hotel Emerald Room
Lucia Watson
Chef Lucia Watson is the proprietor of Lucia's Restaurant, located in Minneapolis. Watson
is the co-author of Savoring the Seasons of the
Northern Heartland, a “Christmas Pick” by the New York Times and author of
In-Fisherman Presents … Cooking Freshwater Fish.
Watson has been honored with many awards and her recipes have been featured in
regional and national magazines. Recently, the Institute
for Agriculture and Trade Policy honored her with a Commitment to Community Award for her work
with local farmers and youth. She lives in
Minneapolis and spends time in Brittany, France.
Saturday, 12 PM, Deadwood Social Club ($15/person for admission - tickets available by calling 605-688-6113)
Rebecca Norris Webb
Rebecca Norris Webb, originally a poet and journalist, is the author of The Glass Between Us, a book of her writings
and photographs. Her work has been exhibited widely, including the "Why Look at Animals?" show at the George Eastman
House. Originally from Hot Springs, she studied poetry at USD, and now teaches photography around the world with her
husband and creative partner, Alex Webb.
Saturday, 10 AM, Pavilion Board Room; 1 PM, Silverado
Alex Webb
Alex Webb joined Magnum Photos in 1976. His photographs have appear in numberous magazines, including the
New York Times Magazine, Life, Geo, and National Geographic. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Alex is the
author of seven books, including the recent book, Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names. He has exhibited widely in the
United States and Europe.
Saturday, 10 AM, Pavilion Board Room; 1 PM, Silverado
Lydia Whirlwind Soldier
Lydia Whirlwind Soldier is a Sicangu Lakota born in Bad Nation on the Rosebud reservation.
An enrolled
member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, she worked in education for 30 years, and is a poet,
non-fiction writer,
business owner and recognized craftswoman. Her collection of poems, Memory Songs
was published in 1999 and she contributed to This Stretch of the River.
Saturday, 10 AM, St. Ambrose Catholic Parish; 11 AM, Elementary Upper Library; 3 PM, Deadwood Public Library
Upstairs
