OPEN A NEW WORLD

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

2018 12:00 – 8:00 P.M.

OFFICIAL GUIDE ABOUT HUMANITIES Nevada Humanities fosters cultural enrichment and connection for all Nevadans. By creating and supporting dynamic public programs that inspire engagement, we deepen a collective Reno Office sense of place and belonging and Nevada Humanities encourage mutual understanding and How to Open a New World 1670-200 North Virginia Street empathy, which are the foundations P.O. Box 8029 of community and democracy. Nevada Humanities is one of 56 Reno, NV 89507-8029 independent, nonprofit state and Tel: (775) 784-6587 territorial humanities councils affiliated Tel: (800) 382-5023 with the National Endowment for the Find friends. Study the map. Pick your path. Fax: (775) 784-6527 Humanities. With offices in Reno and Arrive at your first Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl session and go! Entry to all Nevada Humanities Las Vegas, Nevada Humanities creates Literary Crawl sessions are free. public programs and supports public Las Vegas Office projects statewide that define the Pop in and out of readings if you want to see as many authors as possible, but please be respectful of Nevada Humanities Nevada experience and facilitate the readers and other participants as you come and go. 1017 South First Street, Unit 190 exploration of issues that matter to Las Vegas, NV 89101 Nevadans and their communities. In between readings, see what is happening on the streets: dance performances, scavenger hunts, Tel: (702) 800-4670 interactive art projects, experimental walking tours, and much more. Fax: (702) 800-4665

As you go on your adventure, tweet us @nvhumanities with #litcrawlnv. NEVADA HUMANITIES Follow us on Instagram at nevada_humanities for news and updates throughout the day. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Share on Instagram: @nevada_humanities #litcrawlnv. Jane Tors, Chair, Reno William Marion, Vice Chair, Las Vegas Jennifer Satre, Past Chair, Reno Erika Bein, Reno Constance Brooks, Las Vegas Caleb Cage, Reno TAKING BOOKS TO THE STREETS Antoinette Cavanaugh, Owyhee Nancy Cummings, Reno

When Nevada Humanities founded the Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl five years Carolyn Dufurrena, Winnemucca Nevada Humanities/Jessi LeMay ago, we had no idea that it would grow to be the premier literary event in northern M. Todd Felts, Reno 2018 Great Basin Young Chautauqua scholars. Nevada. Now with nearly 100 authors from across the Silver State and beyond, read- Michael Flores, North Las Vegas ings, workshops, book signings, kids’ storytime and activities, and an Epilogue After Scott Gavorsky, Elko Party to beat the band, we are thrilled to see the event mature and thrive. Shaun Griffin, Virginia City Debra Harry, Nixon We are also delighted to welcome writer Gabby Rivera as the 2018 keynote writer to Andrew Kirk, Las Vegas the Crawl. Rivera is the author of Juliet Takes a Breath and Marvel Comics’ America Mary-Ellen McMullen, Henderson series, featuring America Chavez, Marvel’s first queer Latina superhero. Rivera has a lot to say about inspiring radical creativity - no matter who you are or where you Susanna Newbury, Las Vegas come from - and I am sure her inspiration will be felt throughout the Literary Crawl as Daniel Enrique Pérez, Reno Mary-Ann Winkelmes, Las Vegas the day unfolds. We encourage you all to tap your own radical creativity and to revel Taskar Shreesh in the creativity of others, this is why we Crawl. NEVADA HUMANITIES STAFF Christina Barr, Executive Director Stephanie Gibson, Program Manager Bobbie Ann Howell, Program Manager Aliza Pantoja, Administrative Assistant

Christina Barr Executive Director Nevada Humanities/Stephanie Gibson 2017 Nevada Humanities Poet-In-Residence Olivia Romo at French Ford Middle School, Winnemucca, Nevada, 2017. 2 THE SALON & POP-UP SALONS Nevada Humanities provides Nevada Humanities Programs 2018 Part panel discussion, part opportunities for Nevadans to think creatively and explore the world through our programs and events. We produce conversation, and part social event, educational programs and events that define the Nevada experience, feature local culture and heritage, and facilitate The Salon and Pop-Up Salons bring the investigation of ideas that matter to Nevadans and their communities. For more information about Nevada people together to participate in conversations about thought- Humanities visit nevadahumanities.org. provoking topics and ideas. The Salon has filled a gap in our state’s GREAT BASIN YOUNG text by Ron James; The Donner Party collaboration with the City of Las cultural landscape, offering people CHAUTAUQUA Chronicles with text by Frank Mullen, Vegas, the Las Vegas-Clark County a welcoming place to learn new perspectives and share ideas. Reno’s Great Basin Young Chautauqua is Jr., and photography by Marilyn Library District, the Black Mountain Nevada Humanities/Stephanie Gibson an award-winning youth program Newton; and more. These books Institute at UNLV, and other partners. version of The Salon takes place on with more than a hundred inspired are available for purchase at outlets the third Friday of every other month throughout Nevada and by calling The Salon with author Julie Buntin, 2018. at Sundance Books and Music in Reno, satellite programs throughout Nevada LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE and around the nation—Young Nevada Humanities at 775-784-6587. and Pop-Up Salon programs can be Letters About Literature is a national Chautauqua has become a rite of contributions to Nevada’s notable Nevada authors at venues found statewide throughout the year. reading and writing contest for passage for young people, ages communities by using the humanities throughout the Downtown Reno Arts HUMANITIES ON THE ROAD students in grades 4-12, run through 8-18, who share a love of history and to strengthen and enhance the lives Corridor, where they give readings of the Library of Congress. Students exploring characters from the past. Humanities on the Road is one of of Nevadans. Awards include the fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Access across the country are asked to read Now in its 27th year, Great Basin Nevada Humanities’ longest running Judith Winzeler Award for Excellence to all events is free, and all ages are a book, poem, or speech and write to Young Chautauqua continues to impart programs, providing a roster of in the Humanities, the Friend welcome to participate at a variety of the author (living or dead) about how a deeper appreciation of history to carefully selected creative thinkers and Champion of the Humanities family-friendly readings and activities. the book affected them personally. young scholars throughout northern who travel across Nevada to bring Award, the Outstanding Teaching Letters are judged on state and Nevada. To learn more about this engaging public presentations to local of the Humanities Award, and the national levels with Nevada winners program, or to become a Great Basin communities. These presentations Outstanding Humanities Project NEVADA READS announced in May and national Young Chautauqua participant, call explore history, culture, heritage, Award. The next slate of Nevada Nevada Reads is a conversational winners announced by the Library of Nevada Humanities at 775-784-6587 and more. Humanities on the Road Humanities Awards will be conferred statewide book club that invites Congress in late spring. or email [email protected]. presentations are available for booking in March 2019. Nevadans to read selected works of by any nonprofit or educational literature and come together in their organization in Nevada. For a communities to share the ideas and NEVADA CENTER FOR THE BOOK HALCYON PUBLICATION SERIES complete roster of presenters and NEVADA HUMANITIES EXHIBITION perceptions inspired by the books they The Nevada Center for the Book is Nevada Humanities has published a programs, visit nevadahumanities.org. SERIES have read. New books are selected Nevada Humanities/Bobbie Ann Howell dedicated to promoting literature and number of important and informative In 2013, Nevada Humanities moved each year, providing the opportunity literacy throughout the Silver State. books by Nevada authors under into its first publicly accessible for book club discussions and/or Paiute Voices opening event at the LAS VEGAS BOOK FESTIVAL Programs include Nevada Reads, the “Halcyon,” Nevada Humanities’ storefront in the downtown Las Vegas community partnership events that Nevada Humanities Program Gallery in National Book Festival, Letters About Las Vegas, 2016. publication imprint. A sampling of Founded by Nevada Humanities in Arts District. This Program Gallery focus conversation around Nevada Literature, and additional literary these books include: Sagebrush 2002, the annual Las Vegas Book has become home to the Nevada Reads books. Nevada Reads offers programs throughout the state. In Vernacular: Rural Architecture in Festival is an innovative celebration Humanities Exhibition Series, which avenues for the discussion of topics 2017, Nevada Humanities became the Nevada, edited by Stephen R. Davis; of the written, spoken, and illustrated showcases the work of Nevada artists, that matter to Nevadans. home for the Nevada Center for the Into Their Own: Nevada Women word that features authors participating writers, photographers, and other Book. The Nevada Center for the Book Emerging Into Public Life, by Anita in a full schedule of panel discussions, creative thinkers who explore and is the state affiliate of the Center for Ernst Watson; You Know You’re a book signings, readings, workshops, articulate a sense of place in the Silver ONLINE NEVADA ENCYCLOPEDIA the Book in the Library of Congress. Nevadan If… I and II, by Guy Clifton; poetry, children’s literature, exhibitions, State. This program is designed to The Online Nevada Encyclopedia The Nevada Center for the Book and Slices of the Silver State, featuring and special events. The Las Vegas engage viewers in a dialogue about all (ONE) is a multimedia educational its programs are produced by Nevada editorial cartoons by Jeff Hickman and Book Festival is now produced in aspects of the Nevada experience. The resource produced by Nevada Humanities, and are made possible Nevada Humanities Program Gallery Humanities that incorporates articles, with support from the Nevada State is located at 1017 S. First Street, #190, images, and interactive media to Libraries, Archives, and Public Records, Las Vegas, in the 18b Arts District. explore the landscape, people, and the Institute of Museum and Library events that have shaped the Silver Services, and the National Endowment State’s politics, economy, and culture. for the Humanities. NEVADA HUMANITIES LITERARY The ONE is Nevada’s primary online CRAWL

resource about the state’s history Nevada Humanities/Jim Laurie The Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl and contemporary culture. The ONE NEVADA HUMANITIES AWARDS is an exploratory, annual event that is widely used by teachers in K-12 Exhibition of Identity Tapestry by Mary Corey March at The Majorie Barrick Bi-annually, Nevada Humanities brings residents of Reno together to classrooms to bring our history to Museum of Art in Las Vegas, 2018. Awards honor the achievements celebrate, and be inspired by, the rich young people, as well as by the of extraordinary individuals and literary talent in our state. The Nevada general public. Visit the ONE at organizations for making outstanding Humanities Literary Crawl presents onlinenevada.org. Nevada Humanities/Jim Laurie 3 Las Vegas Book Festival, 2017. 4 12:00 p.m. Chapter 1: 1:00-2:15 p.m. Keynote Event:

COLLATERAL&CO. Michael Smith, Cornell Wilkins, and SCHEDULE INSPIRING RADICAL others from Inside/Insight and Razor CREATIVITY WITH GABBY Collateral&Co. explores and responds Wire, two writing workshops at the to the in-progress poems of Gailmarie Northern Nevada Correctional Center. RIVERA Pahmeier through dance. Writer Gabby Rivera believes that Old World Coffee, 104 California Nevada Museum of Art Sculpture Plaza, the tools writers use to build a better Avenue, 1:30-2:30 p.m. OF EVENTS 160 West Liberty Street, 1:00 p.m. Icons to look for... story are the same tools we can use to improve our most vulnerable PRINTMAKING WITH THE PLAYWRITING AND communities: good dialogue, and PERFORMANCE: QUEER radical creativity. Come listen to the BLACK ROCK PRESS LATINX VOICES IN PRINT author of Juliet Takes a Breath and Black Rock Press produces work that Marvel Comics’ AMERICA as she explores the unique potential of the AND ON STAGE presents “Inspiring Radical Creativity.” book. Want to learn more? Stop by, Join playwrights, poets, and and pull an original print. performance artists for a discussion FOR PURCHASE Sundance Books and Music, 121 on the creative process. The panel California Avenue, 1:30-3:30 p.m. will include readings and tips for how to write and publish poetry, plays, T and performance pieces. Featuring: RT S THIS IS IT! COU L Daniel Enrique Pérez, Guillermo D P D ST KAR AN PIC RYL Listen to author Daria Reyes, and Yosimar Reyes. Peoples-Riley read from her dance-themed children’s Pignic Pub & Patio, 235 Flint Street, book, This Is It. Peoples-Riley’s book 1:30-2:15 p.m. S

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T and pick up your free food changed over time? book and a guide to E.L. Cord Museum School, Nevada Reflecting on the history of food and the scavenger hunt. The Museum of Art, 160 West Liberty Street, how it defines a community to the scavenger hunt will take place across 1:30-2:15 p.m. democratization of restaurant reviews, the Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl, come hungry for this conversational and there are prizes at the end. Starts feast. Featuring: Alicia Barber, Sharon at the Downtown Reno Library at 12:00 WRITING BEHIND BARS Honig-Bear, and Michael Tragash. p.m. and 1:00 p.m. and continues Join a gathering of formerly throughout the day, ending at Arts for incarcerated Nevada authors to Washoe Public House, 275 Hill Street, Arts for All Nevada at the Lake Mansion 12 Bibo Coffee Co. All Nevada Lake Mansion (downstairs). experience the power of writing from 1:30-2:15 p.m. behind bars. Featuring: Shaun Griffin, Nevada Museum of rtA Downtown Reno Library, 301 South 13 Center Street, 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. Susan Chandler, Cassandra Little,

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PRINTMAKING WITH THE VERY BEAR AND SPOKEN VIEWS LIBRARY OF PERMANENT MIDNIGHT VAN SOUNDS LIVE: MT. BLACK ROCK PRESS THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE SHOWCASE APPROXIMATE LOCATION Writers and poets share JULIUS CAESAR Black Rock Press produces work that Listen to a reading of two- Join us for a showcase of youth and Participate in a series of ritual readings work about pain, drug How do mountains get their names? explores the unique potential of the time Olympic Gold Medalist David adult members of Reno’s spoken word with librarian Charlie Macquarie. All abuse, and loss. Featuring: On this live podcast performance of book. Want to learn more? Stop by, Wise’s children’s book, Very Bear and collective Spoken Views, emceed by that is required is a Wi-Fi-enabled William Brewer, Daniel Van Sounds, host Fil Corbitt carries and pull an original print. the Butterfly, and let your imagination Iain Watson. device to access the traveling Gumbiner, and Claire Vaye Watkins. a mic through the High Sierra and run free. Featuring: Alexandra Wise. digital library. Browse digital books, across the Great Basin, speaking to Sundance Books and Music, 121 Pignic Pub & Patio, 235 Flint Street, Washoe Public House, 275 Hill Street, documents, and other materials in 3:30-4:15 p.m. government officials, activists, writers, California Avenue, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Sundance Books and Music, 121 2:30-3:15 p.m. the library collection based on your and the mountains themselves. California Avenue, 2:30-3:15 p.m. location. CITIZEN Ceol Irish Pub, 538 South Virginia Street, LIBRARY OF COMICS, CARTOONS, Across the street from Great Basin Food 3:30-4:15 p.m. APPROXIMATE LOCATION RAISE YOUR VOICE GRAPHIC NOVELS: THE Co-op. This ritual and library collection New work by University of Nevada, Reno MFA graduate students and Participate in a series of ritual readings Join members of Voices of ART AND OUTSIDER will be on the topic of water. 223 Court DEEP WEST VIDEO Street, 3:15-3:30 p.m. faculty. Listen to five-minute stories with librarian Charlie Macquarie. All Inspiration, Courage, and Since 2015, Western Folklife Empowerment (V.O.I.C.E.), VOICES and poems about place, belonging, that is required is a Wi-Fi-enabled and home. Center has been working device to access the traveling as they share stories of their Comics and cartoons have been part CHILDREN’S STORYTIME with people from throughout digital library. Browse digital books, experiences of living on the of the literary landscape for centuries. Pignic Pub & Patio, 235 Flint Street, the rural West to produce Come hear some of your documents, and other materials in streets, via spoken word, Recently, the medium has attracted 3:30-4:15 p.m. short videos about their lives on the favorite stories and then the library collection based on your via illness narratives, essays, a variety of voices, particularly those land. Watch a curated collection participate in book-related location. and fiction. Featuring: Lisa with more outsider perspectives. of films produced by students and crafts. Featuring: Paula Lee, Stephen Popovich, and Shawna Learn about the history of comics and NEWS/FLASH teachers at the Owyhee Combined In front of the building housing the Robison. Roseman, as well as community cartoons while looking towards the An archivist and a fiction writer walk School on the Duck Valley Indian Nevada Mining Association. This ritual reporters from Our Town Reno. future. Explore how sequential art has into a bar…and try to stump the Reservation in northern Elko County. and library collection will be on the Sundance Books and Music, 121 been a haven for queer and minority audience with alternating flash fiction Hosted by Meg Glaser, featuring: topic of mining. The Loving Cup, 188 California Avenue, California Avenue, 3:30-4:15 p.m. artists and writers. Featuring: CJ stories and real historic letters. Can Talliah Hanchor, Terry Howard, Gage 2:30-3:15 p.m. Joughin and AL Kaplan. 201 Liberty Street, 2:15-2:30 p.m. you tell which of these short letters Johnson, Destiny Max, Colene SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER are “fake news?” Featuring: Kimberly Paradise, and Isabella Pasqual. PERSHING COUNTY: Lake Mansion, 250 Court Street, 2:30- 3:15 p.m. Parking available behind Roberts and Angela Spires. How do writers use writing to Lake Mansion, 250 Court Street, 3:30-4:15 100 YEARS building. resist systems of power? In works Old World Coffee, 104 California p.m. Parking available behind building. Join the authors of ranging from free verse poetry to Avenue, 3:30-4:15 p.m. Pershing County: 100 Years IN OUR OWN BACKYARD short fiction to spoken word, three as they introduce us to Nevada’s emerging writers offer critiques on PUBLICATION youngest county. Stories of mining Readings on trauma and gun violence. the way people and institutions ROUNDTABLE booms, ghost towns, and the annual Featuring: Ellen Hopkins, exert power over others. Featuring: Rachel Lopez, and students Matthew Baker, Elisa Garcia, and Join us for a discussion of the Burning Man gathering, as told by current state of publishing and the Deanne Munk Davidson, Pat Ferraro from North Valleys High AnnElise Hatjakes. School. opportunities and challenges it Klos, and Lynda Killfoil Quilici. 1864 Tavern, 290 California Avenue, presents for writers. Featuring: Danilo The Cheese Board, 247 California Washoe Public House, 275 Hill Street, 3:30-4:15 p.m. Thomas, Baobab Press; Karen Terrey, Avenue, 2:30-3:15 p.m. 2:30-3:15 p.m. Tangled Roots Writing; Ashley Scott and Brian Rouff.

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LIBRARY OF DEEP WEST VIDEO FICTION WRITING, FAITH, LIBRARY OF UNSHELTERED: LEFT Joseph N. Crowley which focuses on the ebbs and flows of life and APPROXIMATE LOCATION Since 2015, the Western AND BELIEF APPROXIMATE BEHIND BY THE BOOM growing older. Participate in a series of ritual Folklife Center has been Novelists Christopher Coake, Sarah LOCATION Hear from two formerly readings with librarian Charlie working with people from Hulse, and Derek Palacio will read homeless Reno residents as Sundance Books and Music, 121 California throughout the rural West Participate in a series of ritual Macquarie. All that is required is from their work, and discuss how their readings with librarian Charlie they share their perspectives Avenue, 5:20 p.m. a Wi-Fi-enabled device to access to produce short videos about their writings address the concept of faith on the current housing lives on the land. Watch a curated Macquarie. All that is required is the traveling digital library. Browse in the unknown and unseen. a Wi-Fi-enabled device to access crisis in our region. Featuring Donald digital books, documents, and other collection of films produced by Griffin and Wendy Wigglesworth, EPILOGUE AFTER students and teachers at the Owyhee Pignic Pub & Patio, 235 Flint Street, the traveling digital library. Browse materials in the library collection digital books, documents, and and moderated by Aria Overli. This PARTY based on your location. Combined School on the Duck 4:30-5:15 p.m. program is part of ACTIONN’s newly other materials in the library Rub shoulders with your Valley Indian Reservation in northern created Speakers’ Bureau, a storytelling collection based on your location. favorite authors. Live music by Outlaw On the corner of South Virginia and Elko County. Filmmakers will be in program mandated to raise awareness THE CONSTANT Kindred, food trucks, and gelato by California Avenue in front of the Wild attendance. Hosted by Meg Glaser, The parking lot on South Sierra and understanding around the issues Bibo Freddo Gelato. Orchid. This ritual and library collection featuring: Talliah Hanchor, Terry CONVERSATION: Street between Liberty Street and of housing and homelessness. will be on the topic of sex work. Howard, Gage Johnson, Destiny Max, A TRIBUTE TO JOE Ridge Street. This ritual and library Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Colene Paradise, and Isabella Pasqual. Washoe Public House, 275 Hill Street, 515 South Virginia Street, 4:15-4:30 p.m. collection will be on the topic of land Avenue, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. CROWLEY 5:30-6:15 p.m. Lake Mansion, 250 Court Street, 4:30-5:15 and indigenous sovereignty. A tribute to Joe Crowley’s writing and p.m. Parking available behind building. ONE DEGREE OF legacy. Readings by former colleagues Close to Royce, 115 Ridge Street, 5:15-5:30 p.m. THE ARID WEST SEPARATION and students. Moderated by Gailmarie STOP CALLING WOMEN Pahmeier and featuring: Ross Cooper, Where water is scarce and the land BOOK SIGNINGS In our Reno community, everybody Rita Geil, Katja Lektovich, Melanie STILL LIFE particularly unforgiving, listen to seems to know everybody else, NAGS Perish, T R Poulson, G J Sanford, Matt two writers reflect on the merciless Come to Sundance Books and and this unique and lively group Join Katherine Fusco in conversation Shearer, and Logan Seidl. Follow a panel of writers from and hopeful nature of the American Music between 4:30 - 6:30 p.m., of storytellers will take you on a with writer Gemma Hartley as they the page to the canvas as they West. Featuring: Mark Maynard and and the following authors will be surprising journey that shows how we discuss Hartley’s book, Fed Up: Royce, 115 Ridge Street, 4:30-5:15 p.m. explore ideas about expression of Claire Vaye Watkins. available to sign books: connect with each other every day. Emotional Labor, Women, and the our personal and political worlds Hosted by The Folk & The Lore. Way Forward. through visual art. Featuring: AB Pignic Pub & Patio, 235 Flint Street, Gorham, Ann Keniston, Vogue 5:30-6:15 p.m. 4:30 Ceol Irish Pub, 538 South Virginia Street, 1864 Tavern, 290 California Avenue, Robinson, and Jared Stanley. 4:30-5:15 p.m. 4:30-5:15 p.m. Alicia Barber, Daniel Gumbiner, Lake Mansion, 250 Court Street, ODD JOBS CJ Joughin, AL Kaplan, Mark 5:30-6:15 p.m. Parking available Maynard, Daria Peoples-Riley, SONGWRITING Readings by people who have spent THE POETS behind building. their working days doing remarkable Yosimar Reyes, Jared Stanley WORKSHOP LAUREATE things. Featuring: Karen Gedney, Larry Have you always wanted Join Clark County’s Poet HE/SHE/THEY…ME. Johns, and Niela Orr. to learn how to write Laureate, Vogue Robinson, 5:00 From toxic masculinity to feminist 1864 Tavern, 290 California Avenue, a song? Learn alongside the band. and the City of Reno’s Poet ideals to breaking down 5:30-6:15 p.m. William Brewer, Karen Gedney, Casey Bell and Dan Morse of local Laureate, Lindsay Wilson, as they social constructs around Ellen Hopkins, Larry Johns, Ann band Fine Motor will teach you the ins share recent work and reflect on what sex and gender, these Keniston, Ben Rogers, Guillermo and outs of crafting that perfect verse. makes their regions special. PRIETO Reyes, Angela Spires From the Beach Boys to Beyoncé, four writers sit down to Listen as Yosimar Reyes performs a discover what kind of structures The Loving Cup, 188 California Avenue, talk about the person they portion of Prieto, an autobiographical make a foolproof song. No musical 4:30-5:15 p.m. find looking back at them one-man show that follows Reyes’ experience necessary. from the page when they 5:30 are writing. Featuring: journey growing up queer, poor, and Chris Coake, Melanie Perish, Brian E.L. Cord Museum School, Nevada Brandy Burgess, Naseem Jamnia, undocumented in Eastside San Jose. Rouff, June Saraceno, Karen Terrey Museum of Art, 160 West Liberty Street, Claire McCully, and Ben Rogers. Moderated by Daniel Enrique Pérez. 4:30-5:15 p.m. Ceol Irish Pub, 538 South Virginia The Loving Cup, 188 California Avenue, 5:30-6:15 p.m. Street, 5:30-6:15 p.m. 6:00 Gayle Brandeis, Derek Palacio, COLLATERAL&CO. Ashley Scott, Claire Vaye Watkins, Collateral&Co. dancers explore “Ben Lindsay Wilson, Vogue Robinson and I at Seventy Five,” a poem by Dr. 9 10 Ongoing Lit Crawl Open a New World contributors: Matthew W. Baker is from Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- ing, she can probably be found reading on the property established by George Lovelock. Da- vania, but now lives and works in Reno as an En- floor, holding her third espresso of the day. vidson is an educator and enjoys photography in glish teacher at the Davidson Academy of Neva- her retirement. Events Susan Chandler retired in 2013 after 20 years After Dark da. He received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Nevada, Reno, with a focus on of teaching in the School of Social Work at the Michon Eben is an enrolled Paiute/Shoshone LIT CRAWL LOVE NOTES POETRYOKE poetry. His work has appeared in antiBODY: An University of Nevada, Reno. For the last three from the Reno/Sparks Indian Colony of Reno, Anthology of Poetry and Medicine, Swamp Ape and a half years, she has been teaching classes Nevada, where she works as the Cultural Resource Find Black Rock Press and pull a one-of-a-kind Like karaoke, but with poetry. Watch a raucous Review, Yemassee Journal, Sierra Nevada Re- in creative writing and cultural perspectives at Manager/Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. Eben the Northern Nevada Correctional Center, a is a graduate of the California State University, print. Write a message on its back, and send it and hilarious showdown of Nevada poets as view, The Meadow, and Clover: A Literary Rag, among others. He is currently at work on his first medium security state prison. Humboldt, and the University of Nevada, Reno, on its way with a Reno Bike Project courier to they attempt to slam the classics manuscript entitled, The Next Generation. and is a nationally known youth presenter on the be delivered to an unsuspecting stranger. Will you get one (think: Walt Whitman, Shakespeare, Courtney Cliften is a University of Nevada, Reno value of education for Indian youth; violence, student studying political science and writing. back from someone else? Let’s fill the day with anonymous and Langston Hughes), with a panel Alicia Barber, PhD, is a professional public alcohol and drug awareness; cultural leadership; historian and writer specializing in American and teen pregnancy prevention. is the author of the novel messages of hope, humor, and love. of Spoken Views poets as judges. culture and the US West. She is the author of Christopher Coake You Came Back and the story collection We’re Poets must memorize their poems Reno’s Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in Katherine Fusco writes about the way different in Trouble, which won the PEN/Robert Bingham Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Avenue, the Biggest Little City and the co-founder and media forms shape identity, and encourage us and perform them as spoken word. Fellowship for a first work of fiction. In 2007, 1:30-3:30 p.m. editor of Reno Historical (renohistorical.org), to be either cruel or kind to one another. She Winner earns bragging rights. After he was named one of Granta’s Best Young a map-based smart phone app and website teaches courses on film, theory, and 19th and American Novelists. His short fiction has been our winner is announced, audience dedicated to Reno’s history. Recipient of 20th century American literature at the Univer- anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories members are invited on stage to the 2014 Nevada Silver Pen Award from the sity of Nevada, Reno. Fusco has also written 2004 and The Best American Noir of the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, she won a 2016 about pop-culture and motherhood for a num- read a classic poem of their choice. Bring it! Century, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, and Nevada Press Association Award for “Best ber of national outlets including Harper’s Bazaar, Featuring: Gayle Brandeis, Tee Iseminger, Arian published in journals such as Granta, The South- Local Column” for her “Edible Traditions” Avidly, and The Atlantic. ern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Five Points, Katsimbras, June Saraceno, Angela Spires, and feature in Edible Reno-Tahoe. Her food writing and The Journal. A native of Indiana, Coake is a spoken word artist and the Lindsay Wilson. has also appeared on foodnetwork.com and in Elisa Garcia received an MA from University of Ohio “Slam Queen” of Spoken Views Collective. America: The Cookbook. The Loving Cup, 188 California Avenue, and an MFA from . He is an She has an unsurpassed genuine spirit and is a associate professor of English at the University perpetual bringer of hugs, smiles, and baked 7:00 p.m. onward. Fine Motor is fronted by Casey Bell and Dan Morse. The band got their start making lo-fi of Nevada, Reno, where he directs the MFA goods. She is a purveyor of all things nerdy, and home recordings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, program in creative writing. she is a voracious reader with varied interests. before relocating to Reno, Nevada, where they Elisa has an open heart that is willing to bring discovered pet therapy finished their first record and recruited Chris Ruth Cole-Hagan people in; her willingness to experience life in all in 2002 when seeking help for her labrador Mays and Ben Birkinbine to fill out the band. its many facets is something that endears her to retriever’s, Rosie, separation anxiety. Cole-Ha- Their self-titled debut LP was released by Exotic every person she encounters. gan registered with Therapy Dogs, Inc. and was Fever Records in Summer 2017. GO TO THE DOGS recognized as Special Education Teacher of the Karen Gedney graduated from Clark University Gayle Brandeis is the author of the mem- Year in 2004 with Rosie as her “Lab Assistant.” in 1979 and University of Cincinnati Medical Be on the lookout for the BowWow Book Club, oir The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Cole-Hagan is an AKC Canine Ambassador and School in 1984. She was the physician for the Reno/Sparks Pet Therapy’s literacy program, all Mother’s Suicide and the poetry collection evaluates for AKC Canine Good Citizenship Nevada Department of Prisons from 1987 to & Therapy Dog Certification through Truckee 2016. Gedney became a specialist in HIV care in around the Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl. The Selfless Bliss of the Body. Her other publications include her book Fruitflesh: Meadows Dog Training Club. prisons and won Nevada Heroes for Humanity Volunteers and their furry friends will be at outdoor Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write Award in 2000, at which point she became the is an Environmental Scientist locations all day, and you can learn about pet safety and and the novels The Book of Dead Birds, which Ross Cooper senior physician for the only prison regional III with the Nevada Division of Environmental won the Bellwether Prize for Fiction of Social medical facility in the state. Gedney is an author, responsible dog ownership while listening, reading, and Protection, where he oversees the Lead and Engagement, Self Storage, Delta Girls, and speaker, and consultant working to shift the telling stories. Copper Rule both locally and nationally. He My Life with the Lincolns, which received a current prison paradigm from one of harm and earned his bachelor of science degree in cell Silver Nautilus Book Award and was chosen recidivism to one of healing and re-integration. and molecular biology while receiving a seem- as a state-wide read in Wisconsin. Her poetry, ingly superfluous minor in English Literature. is a published lyric poet and essays, and short fiction have been widely Rita Geil He has taught laboratories and courses in humorist with numerous awards for writing published and have received numerous hon- biology at both the college and university level and performing. She organizes and performs ors, including a Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace and has guest lectured to several academic in quarterly jazz and poetry events with the Poetry Award and a Notable Essay in Best and professional entities throughout Nevada Mile High Jazz Band in Carson City. Geil has American Essays 2016. and the United States. narrated concerts with the Reno Philharmonic is the author of I Know Your Orchestra and the Carson City Symphony, and William Brewer is the creator of Van Sounds, a Kind, winner of the National Poetry Series, Fil Corbitt she has edited (for performance) translations of podcast about movement based in Reno, and Oxyana, selected for the Poetry Society writings by Vivaldi, Berlioz, and Turgenev. As Nevada. Corbitt takes listeners around globe of America’s 30 and Under Chapbook Fellow- part of the exhibit Always Lost: A Meditation interviewing musicians and artists, weaving ship. His work has appeared or is forthcoming on War, her poem “Home of the Brave” toured intricate, intimate stories about place, music, in American Poetry Review, The Nation, New En- the nation for seven years. Her book Laughing and travel. Van Sounds was named “best off- gland Review, , A Public Space, It off: The Low-Calorie Poem Diet won a beat adventure audio” by Outside Magazine The Sewanee Review, and other journals. Cur- national award for humor. and appears occasionally on CBC, NPR affil- rently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, iate stations, and community radio stations is the artistic director of the West- he was born and raised in West Virginia. Meg Glaser across the west. ern Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada. is a writer, editor, artist, and Brandy Burgess is a third generation is a book artist and writer, originally religious educator. A University of Nevada, Reno Deanne Munk Davidson AB Gorham Nevadan and has lived most of her life in Persh- hailing from Montana. She holds MFAs in poetry alumna, Brandy has spent 10 years in Reno and ing County. She grew up on the Munk Bros. and book arts from the University of Alabama. is currently completing a graduate program Ranch, presently the List Ranch, and later lived She lives in Reno, Nevada, with her husband, through Loyola University, New Orleans. When on her family-owned Ruddell Ranch, the ranch their two daughters, and their three beasts, is the she’s not having an existential crisis while clean- 11 12 press manager at Black Rock Press, and teaches Jo-Lynn Heusser is a student at Truckee including toxic tort cases relating to asbestos, Lee works as the wellness program director at Mark Maynard teaches at Truckee Meadows acknowledged as Outstanding Teacher of the book arts at the University of Nevada, Reno. Meadows Community College and will be chlorine gas, pesticides, and radiation. Along- The Life Change Center and as a psychiatric Community College. His linked short story Humanities by Nevada Humanities. She has been published in American Letters and graduating in the fall with degrees in English side Alan R. Johns, Johns wrote The Baneberry case manager at Alta Vista Mental Health. collection Grind, was chosen as the 2017- Commentary, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, and The and anthropology. She plans to attend the Disaster, A Generation of Atomic Fallout. 2018 Nevada Reads book. He has an MFA in Colene Paradise has worked for the Elko Volta, among others, and her artist’s books are University of Nevada, Reno in 2019. Several Katja Lektorich earned her MA in the creative writing from Antioch University, Los County School District for 22 years. Her love of represented by Vamp and Tramp Booksellers, of her poems have been published in The Gage Johnson is Shoshone Paiute and literature and environment program at the Angeles, and his work has appeared in Lunch the history of Duck Valley propelled her interest LLC, and Abecedarian Gallery. Meadow. Heusser is an avid collector of me- Marshallese, and is a junior at Owyhee High University of Nevada, Reno during which time Ticket, The Nottingham Review, Tahoe Blues, in working on documentary filmmaking with dia, such as records and VHS tapes, as well as School. He has created four movies. she studied poetry with Gailmarie Pahmeier. and The Films of Clint Eastwood: Critical students. Paradise has two daughters, and one Donald Griffin was born in San Bernardino, Cal- vintage clothing and houseplants. It was in this workshop that Lektorich met, Perspectives. His story “Last Call at the son, whom she lost to suicide in 2014. received their MFA in comics ifornia, and raised in South Central . CJ Joughin studied with, celebrated with, and developed Smokestack Club” will appear in the forth- and cartooning from The Center for Cartoon Isabella Pasqual is Native American, Sho- He became homeless for three years due to Sharon Honig-Bear is a freelance writer and a treasured friendship with Dr. Joe Crowley. coming anthology This Side of the Divide: Studies. They moved to Reno in 2017 and just shone Paiute, Navajo, and Tohono O’odham. alcoholism and drug addiction. These issues ru- photographer who was the restaurant critic for Lektorich currently pursues her literary inter- Contemporary Stories of the American West. recently crowdfunded the first collection of and attends Owyhee High School. Pasqual ined his life and his connection with his children. the Reno Gazette Journal for over seven years, ests as an editor and writer while also working Maynard was the recipient of the 2015 Ne- their long-form comic project, City of Cards. enjoys sports, and has been honored with He has been clean for just over a year, thanks to and she currently writes a column for Edible as an oncology nurse. vada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award. Joughin is a graphic novelist that has been a Houston Worldfest-Houston Bronze Remi a housing-first model that helped him get into a Reno-Tahoe magazine called “Edible Tradi- He lives in Reno with his wife Molly and their creating comics for over a decade. Their work is a digital storyteller whose work Award for filmmaking. safe living situation. Griffin is reforming his con- tions.” She won the Best Local Column-Mag- Jessi LeMay five children. nection with his children and rebuilding his life. azines award for 2017 by the Nevada Press focuses on exploring class issues and the focuses on place identity. Her project “The impact of living in a corporate dominated Folk & The Lore” has brought storytellers to Derek Palacio is the author of the novella How He volunteers with V.O.I.C.E. and ACTIONN in Association. Honig-Bear is a board member Claire McCully has worked as a seasonal to Shake the Other Man and the novel The order to change the narrative about people like with the Historic Reno Preservation Society society. Much of Joughin’s work explores inti- the stage and short documentaries to the firefighter, in public libraries, and is currently a mate personal relationships and the strengths screen since 2013. LeMay’s work is driven by Mortifications. He is the co-director, with Claire himself and to help expand the opportunities and is the Chair of the Reno Arts and Culture professor of English at Western Nevada College. Vaye Watkins, of the Mojave School, a free that got him clean and off of the streets. Commission, and she believes that food is just of community. Joughin’s world is a mixture of the understanding that when you know your Much of her time and energy is devoted to rais- classical literature and 80s cyberpunk, showing neighbor’s story, you are more connected to creative writing workshop for teenagers in rural another way to enhance Reno’s culture. ing her two sons. After trying to live as a man for Nevada. He teaches in the low-residency MFA Shaun T. Griffin is the co-founder and develop- that the ancient and the modern are both your community. In addition to exploring her the first 40 years of her life, she finally decided programs at both the Institute of American ment director of Community Chest, a rural social Ellen Hopkins is a poet and the award-winning things we can learn from. community through personal narratives, LeMay to become her authentic self and transition to Indian Arts and Ashland University. justice agency serving northwestern Nevada author of 14 New York Times-bestselling young is collecting oral histories for Reno Rodeo, her true gender. As a result, she has become an is a comic artist interested in psy- since 1991. Southern Utah University Press re- adult novels and four novels for adult read- AL Kaplan Woodburn & Wedge (the oldest law firm in the advocate of transgender rights. She has given a chology and speculative culture whose work Daria Peoples-Riley earned a BA in English leased Anthem for a Burnished Land, a memoir ers—a dozen of which are novels-in-verse. She state of Nevada), and the Washoe ArTrail. TedTalk on her transition from male to female, focuses on queer narratives in psychedelic sci-fi from the University of California, Santa Bar- written by Griffin, in 2016. Griffin also serves on claims to have had only one actual job, right out competed in Reno’s Literary Death Match, and and horror settings. Kaplan has a degree in has been writing poetry bara as well as a masters in education from the Nevada Humanities Board of Trustees. of high school. That was enough to push her Cassandra Little her poetry has recently appeared in Trampset psychology from the University of California, and essays since grade school. She studied Regis University. After 10 years of teaching, toward entrepreneurship, and in her early twen- and The Normal School. Peoples-Riley became a full-time author and Daniel Gumbiner was born and raised in North- ties Hopkins owned a catering service and a Santa Cruz and has been living in Reno for the criminal justice at California State Fullerton ern California. He graduated from the University past six years. and California Baptist University. She earned illustrator. Her debut picture book, This is It, was video store. When she and her husband moved Niela Orr is a writer from Philadelphia. She is published with Greenwillow/Harper Collins and of California, Berkeley in 2011 and now lives to Tahoe in 1985, she sold her businesses and a master’s degree in social work and her a columnist for The Baffler and an interviews earned his BA from the was selected by Nevada Humanities to repre- in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he works as the became a freelance journalist and nonfiction Arian Katsimbras doctorate in counseling from the University editor for The Believer. Her writing has also University of Nevada, Reno. He has been the sent Nevada at the “Parade of the States” at managing editor of The Believer magazine. The author, publishing 20 nonfiction books for chil- Nevada, Reno. For over 28 years she worked appeared in Book Review, recipient of the Emily Morrison Prize in Poetry the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Boatbuilder is his first book. dren before moving into fiction. Her first novel, professionally in child welfare. In 2013, the BuzzFeed, Elle, Glamour, and McSweeney’s selected by Jamaal May, and his chapbook this fall. A companion book, I Got Next, will Crank, published in 2004 and jump started her trajectory of her life changed drastically Quarterly. She is currently working on a chap- is a queer of color was selected as a finalist by YesYes Books. His follow in summer 2019. Peoples-Riley is also the Robert Gutiérrez-Pérez young adult writing career. when she was indicted and incarcerated for book about retail labor. scholar, activist, and performance artist and an books have appeared in Muzzle Magazine, Vinyl 33 months for health care fraud and money illustrator of Gloria Takes a Stand by Jessica M. Rinker, a forthcoming picture book biography assistant professor of culture and communica- Terry Don Howard belongs to the Shoshone, Poetry, Waxwing, Taos Journal of International laundering. During her incarceration, her love Aria Overli is the economic justice community tion at the University of Nevada, Reno in the Paiute, and Bannock nations of the Great Basin Poetry, Tahoma Literary Review, and antholo- for writing poetry and writing is what kept her organizer with ACTIONN. ACTIONN works to about the life and work of Gloria Steinem. department of Communication Studies. His area, and is a descendent of Bannock Chief gized in It Was Written: Poetry Inspired By Hip whole, sane, and alive. organize communities of faith and people most research and life revolve around the goal of Hop. He is a graduate of the MFA program at Daniel Enrique Pérez is the director of Core Tetobe and Chief Arimo. He is also Irish and affected by issues to fight for a northern Nevada Humanities and an associate professor of empowering, remembering, and advocating for Basque; his great-great grandfather, William Virginia Tech and currently teaches English at Rachel Lopez is an actor, director, and that works for everyone. Overli received her MA queer people of color with a particular focus on the University of Nevada, Reno. playwright. Her original plays include: A Taco Chicanx and Latinx literature at the University Daniel Jackson, is considered a hero in the Bat- in cultural anthropology with an emphasis in of Nevada, Reno. His research and writing the LGBTQ Chicanx and Latinx community. tle of the Alamo. Howard is a senior at Owyhee Truck on Every Corner or Dreaming in English gender, race, and identity from the University of is the author of the poetry centers on the intersections of gender, ethnic- High School and his hobbies include beading, Ann Keniston (co-written by Sandra Brunell-Neace and ac- Nevada, Reno in 2016. Aria grew up in northern is Native American, Hawaiian, collection The Caution of Human Gestures and ity, and sexuality, especially concerning queer Talliah Hanchor drawing, cooking, hiking, dancing, and singing. cepted to the Prague Fringe Festival in Prague, Nevada in an extremely low-income family and and Marshallese, and has been making films for a chapbook, November Wasps: Elegies, as well Chicanx and Latinx identities. He is a scholar Czech Republic in 2018), Malvolio or What You is passionate about ensuring that all low-income five years. Hanchor is a junior at Owyhee High as several scholarly books on recent American and creative writer who often incorporates S. M. Hulse is the author of the novel Black Will...A Transgender Story, How to Survive in folks have access the opportunities to succeed School where she runs track and cross country. poetry. A 2017 Nevada Arts Council Artist Fel- poetry into his scholarly work, and vice versa. River, a PEN/Hemingway Finalist and an Amer- Middle School Without Even Crying, Sam and and to live safe and healthy lives. ican Library Association Notable Book. Her lowship recipient, she has recent or forthcoming The Red Balloon, and Dead Caterpillars. Her In addition to his book, Rethinking Chicana/o earned her BA at the University Gemma Hartley second novel, Eden Mine, will be published by poems in third coast, Water-Stone, Yale Review, play In Our Own Backyard received an “Hon- teaches creative writing and Latina/o Popular Culture, he has published of Nevada, Reno and went on to a full-time Gailmarie Pahmeier Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Her short fiction has and Gettysburg Review. She is a professor of orable Mention Award” from The Beverly Hills and contemporary literature at the University several articles, essays, and poems in his field. freelance career shortly after, writing for publi- appeared in Willow Springs, Witness, and Sala- English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Theatre Guild’s Marilyn Hall Awards for Youth of Nevada, Reno where she has been honored He is also the editor of a collection of plays cations such as , Glamour, mander. She is an assistant professor of English Theatre in 2016. Lopez is a proud alumna of with the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence entitled, Latina/o Heritage on Stage: Dramatiz- Women’s Health, Harper’s Bazaar, Huffington is a third-generation Nevadan at the University of Nevada, Reno. Pat Ferraro Klos The Director’s Lab 2017 and is the Award and the University Distinguished ing Heroes and Legends. Post, and The Week. Her freelance work runs with roots in seven northern Nevada counties. Managing Director for Civic Theatre of Greater Teacher Award. A Pushcart Prize nominee, the gamut from financial advice to cultural She is an historian, writer, educator, and historic Felicia Perez is a public speaker, educa- Naseem Jamnia received their AB (University Lafayette in Indiana. her work has garnered a number of awards, commentary to parenting and more. Her first preservationist who lived for many years in Love- tor and author, and currently works as the of Chicago) and MS (DePaul University), both including a Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship book Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and lock. She currently lives in Reno and is a former Innovation Director with the Center for in the biological sciences. After a brief stint as Charlie Macquarie is an artist and experimen- and three artists fellowships from the Nevada the Way Forward will be released November Board of Trustees member of Nevada Human- Story-based Strategy. Her previous organizing a neuroscience PhD student at the University tal librarian. His creative practice takes the Arts Council, including the prestigious Major 2018 through HarperOne. ities. Her co-authored book, Pershing County: and member support experience includes of Pennsylvania, they decided instead to focus form of The Library of Approximate Location, Project Fellowship. She is the author of The on their writing and editing. Jamnia’s work has 100 Years, will be published through Baobab an ongoing itinerant project exploring the work for the ACLU of Southern California, holds an MFA degree in House on Breakaheart Road and The Rural AnnElise Hatjakes appeared in The Washington Post, Cosmopoli- Press in September 2018. confounding nature of environmental materi- the California “No On Prop 21” campaign, fiction from the University of Nevada, Reno. Lives of Nice Girls, in addition to three tan, The Rumpus, and other publications. They ality and its disparate networks in the west- Californians For Justice, UC Santa Barbara Prior to pursuing her MFA, she earned her experienced episodic homelessness chapbooks, the most recent of which, Shake are the 2018 Bitch Media Fellow in Technology Lisa Lee ern United States through the installation of External Vice President of Statewide Affairs, MA in writing. Her manuscript from her MFA and has been in long-term recovery from It and It Snows, won the Coal Hill Chapbook and the managing editor at Sidequest, an indie site-specific libraries and information systems. and Chair of the National Queer Students program represents the intersection of satire opioid use disorder since February 2002. Award from Autumn House Press. In 2007, she gaming website. Jamnia has started their MFA He works as the digital archivist at University of of Color Caucus/board member of the U.S. and dystopia, exploring the ever-narrowing Poetry and open mics were instrumental to received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in fiction writing at the University of Nevada, California, . Macquarie is a library Student Association (USSA). Perez holds a BA gap between imagined dystopian futures and her recovery, and she considers writing the in the Arts from the state of Nevada, where Reno in Fall 2018. fellow at the Prelinger Library. in sociology from the University of California, present-day news headlines. The first chapter “cheapest form of therapy.” Lee has an MA in she serves as a Poet-in-Residence. Pahmeier Santa Barbara and a Master’s in curriculum is also a former National Literary Panelist for of that manuscript is forthcoming in the literary is an attorney who has represent- anthropology with a focus on radical inclusivity is a senior at Owyhee High and instruction. Larry Johns Destiny Max the YoungArts Foundation. In 2015, she was journal, Drunk Monkeys, and one of her short ed nearly 500 clients in civil and criminal cases and social connectedness of marginalized indi- School. Her hobbies include science club, vol- appointed Reno’s first Poet Laureate, and stories was shortlisted for the Neil Shepard in Nevada state and federal course for over viduals experiencing homelessness, engaging leyball, and track and field. Max has made sev- Melanie Perish’s poems have recently in 2016 she was inducted into the Neva- Prize in Fiction. 48 years. He has tried more than 100 cases, in injection drug use, sex workers, and others. eral films, including Running Owyhee, Playing appeared in the Austin International Poetry da Writers Hall of Fame. In 2017 she was for the Braves, and The Life Behind Volleyball. 13 14 Festival anthology, Diversity, The Avocet, and Consciousness and Coming Out, and the forth- Wins, he runs Imagine Communications, a Jared Stanley’s most recent book is EARS. ness for the past eight years. She worked as a Emerging Poets. Her chapbooks include Notes coming Joto: An Anthology of Queer Xicano & marketing and public relations firm based in Forthcoming projects include an essay, Ignore hairstylist for 20 years. She has an energy that of a Daughter from the Old Country and The Chicano Poetry. Reyes holds a BA in creative southern Nevada. the Cries of Empty Stones and Your Flesh Will brings joy to any room. Fishing Poems. Her poetry collection Passions & writing from San Francisco State University and Break Out in Scavengers, an artwork, Terma, Gratitudes was published by Black Rock Press. is an arts fellow at Define American. G. J. Sanford is an MFA candidate at the which is a collaboration with the artist Sameer Cornell Wilkins will complete his bachelor’s de- She is currently working on a second collection. University of Nevada, Reno. Their work has Farooq, and an artist’s book, Bewildernessless. gree in sociology at the University of Nevada, Las In 2017, Brushfire named her “Spotlight Poet” Gabby Rivera is an outgoing, outspoken appeared in River Styx Magazine, The Poto- Vegas in December 2018. He is a poet and works for their online edition. creator invested in fostering better dialogue, mac Review, Rust + Moth, and others. They Gina Stratos is a former student of Truckee as a substance abuse case manager. He has lived inspiring radical creativity, and improving our currently live in a tiny house with their tiny Meadows Community College and is the editor in Las Vegas for the last four years. T R Poulson is a graduate of the University of most vulnerable communities. Rivera is the feline muse, Finn. and speaker liaison for the Western Bankers Nevada, Reno. Her work has appeared in Rattle, author of Juliet Takes a Breath, a young adult Association. Her poetry and short fiction can be Drew Willis is a Truckee Meadows Community Alehouse, The Meadow, Raintown Review, novel listed by Mic as one of the 25 essential Ismael Santillanes published Indelicate found in The Meadow, Door is a Jar, Rabid Oak, College graduate whose poems have appeared Wildcat Review, Trajectory, Verdad, Delaware books to read for women’s history month. The Angels. He has painted and exhibited for and Dark River Review. in Brushfire and The Meadow. Review, New Verse News, and J Journal. When book was called the “dopest LGBTQA YA more than 20 years. He lives in the southern , an English professor at Truckee not reading or writing, she enjoys windsurfing, book ever” by Latina magazine. Rivera is also California desert near friends and family. Karen Terrey is a writer, editor, and owner of Lindsay Wilson Meadows Community College, is currently serving zumba, and basketball. the writer of the new Marvel series Ameri- Tangled Roots Writing. She has taught at Lake is the author of two at Reno’s Poet Laureate. His first collection is No ca—featuring the first queer, Latinx teen-girl June Sylvester Saraceno Tahoe Community College, Sierra Nevada poetry collections, Of Dirt and Tar and Altars Elegies, and his poetry has appeared in The Stephen Popovich moved around a lot as superhero, ever. College, and Sierra College and has served as a kid, attending 12 schools in six years and of Ordinary Light, as well as a chapbook of a poetry editor for the literary journals Pitkin Carolina Quarterly, Verse Daily, and The Bellevue attended a bit of college. He confesses to Kimberly Roberts studied literature and his- prose poems, Mean Girl Trips. Her work has Review and Quay. She is a recipient of a Sierra Literary Review, among others. He serves at the living hard and fast, and in his mid-30s, he tory at Colorado State University and history appeared widely in journals including Blue Lyra Arts Endowment Grant, the John Woods Schol- poetry editor of The Meadow. “hit a wall” both emotionally and legally. of photography, science, and environment Review, Southwestern American Literature, arship to Prague Summer Program, the Steve is the wife of two-time Olympic Popovich moved to Reno and regained at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has and Tar River Poetry. She is English program Turner Scholarship to Surprise Valley Writer’s Alexandra Wise gold medalist David Wise, and mother of Nayeli control of his life, but in 2002, he lost his worked at museums, libraries, and archives chair at Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, Conference, and a scholarship to the Vermont and Malachi, spends her time as a homemaker job, and by the following year, he was living across the country and is currently the pho- as well as MFA faculty, director of the literary Studio Center. Her poems have appeared in raising her family and supporting her husband’s on the streets. Soon after his 60th birthday, tograph curator in Special Collections at the speaker series Writers in the Woods, and Rhino, Edge, Meadow, WordRiot, Puerto Del many pursuits. She enjoys mountain biking, rock Popovich sought help and credits his survival University of Nevada, Reno. founding editor of the Sierra Nevada Review. Sol, Wicked Alice, Canary, and Gray Sparrow climbing, and skiing/snowboarding with her to some truly amazing people. He joined Journal, among others. is the author of the urban fantasy family. She also has a passion for the creative the V.O.I.C.E. writers group as a therapeutic Vogue Robinson was named Clark County’s Ashley Scott novel, The Tenth House, book one of the Turn arts of photography and writing. support through cancer and the loss of his second-ever Poet Laureate, and she serves Danilo John Thomas was raised in Butte, as executive director of Poetry Promise, a of the Zodiac series, and the novelette Zodiac Montana, and earned a PhD in creative writing eye, and he credits the program for making is a professional skier, two-time non-profit that develops community-based Rebellion. She is currently working on book from Florida State University and an MFA at the David Wise him a better person. Olympian, and Olympic gold medalist. An avid programs to promote poetry. She moved to two, The Eleventh House, which is set to be University of Alabama. His story “The Traveler outdoorsman and adventure seeker, Wise re- has lived in Lovelock Valley Nevada with a BA in English from San Diego independently published in late 2018. Scott is King” won the 2018 Gibbs flash fiction prize Lynda Killfoil Quilici sides in Reno, Nevada, with his wife, Alexandra, most of her life. Her numerous siblings and their State University in 2013. Since then, Vogue the writer and director of two short films and from New Delta Review, and he is the author of and two children, Nayeli and Malachi. He is the families are spread over much of northern Neva- has represented Las Vegas at four national has a degree from Central Washington Univer- the chapbook The Hand Implements. He is the author of Very Bear and the Butterfly. da. She is an artist, educator, and designer; she poetry competitions. Her work has been pub- sity in film production and screenwriting. She managing editor for Baobab Press. currently owns and lives on the Rye Patch Ranch lished in Vogue 3:16 Selected Poems, Clark, currently resides in Reno, taking advantage of northeast of Lovelock. Red Rock Review, and Legs of Tumbleweeds, all the amazing scenery to use as the settings Michael Tragash is a community connector and Wings of Lace: An Anthology of Literature by in her novels. storyteller, as well as Yelp.com’s Reno commu- Guillermo Reyes has produced and pub- Nevada Women. Robinson’s poetry is largely nity director. Tragash is a recurring contributor is a carpenter and woodworker lished a variety of plays including Chilean narrative and conversational; she says she Matt Sherer to Mornings On Fox 11, Alice 96.5, Edible-Reno with degrees in the humanities. Sherer received Holiday, Men on the Verge of a His-Panic writes primarily to find clarity and to tell her Tahoe, and other local media outlets. He has a bachelor’s degree in literature and a mas- Breakdown, Deporting the Divas, Miss family’s story. been named one of the American Advertising Consuelo, Allende by Pinochet, The West ter’s degree in writing from the University of Federation’s “Ad People of The Year,” “Influ- Hollywood Affair, The Seductions of Johnny Paula Robison has taught art at many schools Nevada, Reno. encer of the Year” by the American Marketing Diego, and others. His memoir, Madre and I: in the Reno area, as an artist-in-residence with Association, and recognized by state and local is an MFA student at the Universi- A Memoir of our Immigrant Lives chronicles Sierra Arts Foundation’s Arts in Education, an art Logan Seidl government for his work in spreading the good ty of Nevada, Reno. He has won the DQ Award his immigration from Chile and growing up in teacher with Arts For All Nevada, and for adults word about everything in the Biggest Little City. in both fiction and poetry and the James the Washington, D.C., area and Hollywood, with the David J. Drakulich Foundation. She H. MacMillan Scholarship for poetry/fiction California. He is a professor at Arizona State currently teaches through the Art Masterpieces Alex Wakeman artist and poet, is a member of written about Nevada. His poetry has been University in the School of Film, Dance, and program at Brown Elementary School. the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation. He writes: published in The Kentucky Review, Crab Creek Theater. In 2013, Deporting the Divas was “After the First Artist, only the copyist.” Review, The Meadow, and elsewhere. published in a new Cambria Series anthol- Ben Rogers’ debut novel, The Flamer, was re-released by Baobab Press in 2018. His Claire Vaye Watkins grew up in the Mojave ogy, Gay Drama Now, and another play, is an artist, poet, and welder fiction has appeared in a variety of literary Michael Smith Desert in Tecopa, California, and across the We Lost it at the Movies, was published by who has exhibited his work at the former Sun publications. He is the lead author of Nano- state line in Pahrump, Nevada. A Guggenheim the Bilingual Review Press in the anthology, Mountain Artworks in Virginia City and Truckee technology: Understanding Small Systems, the Fellow, she is the author of the novel Gold Vaqueeros, Calacas and Hollywood: Contem- Meadows Community College. He has lived in first-ever comprehensive college textbook on Fame Citrus and the story collection Battle- porary Chicano Plays. northern Nevada for the past 15 years. nanotechnology that is now in its third edition, born, which won the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, New York Public Library’s Young Yosimar Reyes is a nationally acclaimed as well as Nanotechnology: The Whole Story, a teaches English and creative Angela Spires Lions Fiction Award, the Rosenthal Family poet, educator, performance artist, and public general audience book. writing at the Davidson Academy in Reno, as Foundation Award from the American Acade- speaker. Born in Guerreo, Mexico, and raised well as at local universities. She has a master’s is from upstate New York and my of Arts and Letters, and a Silver Pen Award in Eastside San Jose, Reyes explores the Shawna Roseman degree in English and a master’s degree in eq- moved to Reno with her parents when she was from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Her themes of migration and sexuality in his work. uity and diversity in education. Her flash fiction 10 years old. Roseman has lived off and on the stories and essays have appeared in Granta, His first collection of poetry, For Colored Boys and flash nonfiction has been published in mul- streets since her teens and is working hard to Tin House, Freeman’s, The Review, Story Who Speak Softly…, was self-published after tiple journals. She writes across varied genres, find herself and live a quality life. She has partici- Quarterly, New American Stories, Best of the a collaboration with the legendary Carlos including young adult and a comic crossover pated in V.O.I.C.E. for the past two years. West, The New Republic, The New York Times, Santana. He was featured in the documen- blog. She loves finding writing prompts in tary, 2nd Verse: The Rebirth of Poetry. Reyes and many others. A recipient of fellowships was born in Detroit, raised in the world around her, from growing up in the is the co-founder of performance ensemble, Brian Rouff from the Sewanee and Bread Loaf Writers’ southern California, and has lived in Las Vegas South to her new experiences in the West, but La Maricolectiva, a community-based perfor- conferences, she was also one of the National since 1981, which makes him a long-timer by most especially in her daughter, who teaches mance group of queer undocumented poets. Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35.” local standards. When he is not writing articles, her more about life every day. Reyes’ work has been published in Mariposas: screenplays, and Las Vegas novels such as Dice has lived in Nevada her An anthology of Queer Modern Latino Poetry, Wendy Wiglesworth Angel, Money Shot, and The House Always entire life. 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