Dear Festival of Books Participants, He Residents of Brookings Welcome You

2 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS CONTENTS 4 Mayor’s Welcome 6 SD Humanities Council Welcome 8 Event Locations and Parking 10 A Tribute to Children’s and Young Adult Literature Sponsored by United Way of the Black Hills, Children’s Museum of South Dakota and First Bank & Trust 11 A Tribute to Fiction Sponsored by AWC Family Foundation and Brookings Public Library and Friends of the Library 12 A Tribute to Poetry Sponsored by Brass Family Foundation 13 A Tribute to Non-Fiction Sponsored by South Dakota Public Broadcasting and The Brookings Register 14 A Tribute to Writers’ Support Sponsored by South Dakota Arts Council and Bob & Pat Fishback 15 A Tribute to History and Tribal Writing Sponsored by City of Brookings and South Dakota State University 16 Presenters 30 Young Readers Festival Schedule 32 Main Schedule of Events 38 Exhibitors’ Hall

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410 E. Third St. • Yankton, SD 57078 800-456-5117 • www.SouthDakotaMagazine.com 3 WELCOME... Dear Festival of Books Participants, he residents of Brookings welcome you. We are excited to serve as the Thost city for the 2018 Festival of Books, and share the wonderful place we call home. Brookings’ slogan is “Bring Your Dreams,” and as visitors to our progressive and growing community, you will quickly realize why that tag line fits us so well. We pride ourselves on creating an environment where everyone is welcome. Begin your journey at the Children’s Museum of South Dakota. While you are there, be sure to stop by the gardens on the building’s north side and say hi to Mama T-Rex and her baby, Max. I promise she won’t bite, but she will talk back to you. Continue to the east and you’ll find the recently restored Car- negie Library, which now serves as the home for the Brookings Arts Council. You will love walking down our Main Avenue, lined with niche shops and beautiful flower baskets. As you near the north end of Main, stop by Nick’s Hamburger Shop for a delicious lunch. You don’t want to go home and tell your friends that you forgot to grab a “Nick’s Burger.” Be sure to take advan- tage of the other outstanding culinary opportunities in Brookings, too. You will not be sorry! Check out all we have to offer at visitbrookingssd.com. On behalf of my office, the Brookings City Council and the Convention & Visitors Bureau, I look forward to meeting all of you and welcoming you in person.

Sincerely,

Keith W. Corbett Mayor of Brookings

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y coming retirement after 15 years of South Dakota book festivals leads me to ponder how our fes- Mtivals have strengthened bonds among book lovers. I remember the first, which featured 120 authors in Deadwood. We opened with Senator Tom Daschle introducing his book, Like No Other Time. Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, historian H.W. Brands, musi- cian Joy Harjo and novelist Leif Enger were all there. And one evening we gathered at Mount Moriah Cemetery for ghost stories and hot chocolate. Every festival since has had its own special moments. Remember Pete Dexter playfully passing his baseball cap to other panelists in 2005? And 2006, when KELO-TV interviewed Maureen Ogle, author of Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer, in the Sioux Falls Holiday Inn bar? I’ll never forget George McGovern deadpanning about his 1972 presiden- tial loss during National Public Radio’s “Not My Job” segment in 2008, and Dave Eggers asking us all to clap in appreciation for a teacher who asked a question during a panel discussion in 2010. In 2014 we piloted the successful Young Readers One Book South Dako- ta. Kate DiCamillo commented on the “sacred task of telling stories for the young: how do we tell the truth and make that truth bearable?” Just last year, we were thrilled to host Philip Deloria, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve and S.D. Nelson. They talked about the legacy of the holy man Black Elk, who is now being considered for sainthood. David Azerrad, Her- itage Foundation leader, joined panelists to discuss “Liberty through Limits: The Bill of Rights,” an exhibit featured in 50 libraries in South Dakota. Then, later, Tim O’Brien asked all of us, “Cannot a word stop your heart as surely as arsenic?” This will be my last book festival as executive director of the South Dako- ta Humanities Council, but it won’t be my last festival. I’ll be joining you in 2019 and beyond because, like you, I know that words are magical. Readers and writers are important to our state and country, and that’s the very core of our South Dakota Festival of Books.

Sherry DeBoer, Executive Director South Dakota Humanities Council 6 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS 7 Campus map Event Locations

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8 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS SDSU CAMPUS Brookings Map 1. ALUMNI CENTER (815 Medary Ave.) 5H AE - Woster Celebration Hall Event Locations 2. HILTON M. BRIGGS LIBRARY C, L (1300 N. Campus Dr.) - Archives & Special Collections J Reading Room

3. MCCRORY GARDENS VISITOR CENTER I H (631 22nd Ave.) - Great Hall - Straw Bale House K 4. PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (1601 University Blvd.) G - Fishback Studio Theatre - Larson Memorial Concert Hall B 5. SD ART MUSEUM (1036 Medary Ave.) A - Galleries F 6. UNIVERSITY STUDENT UNION E (1421 Student Union Ln.) - Dakota Room, 250 A&C - Pasque Room, 255 D - Walder Room, 269

SDSU A. BROOKINGS ACTIVITY E. BROOKINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY I. FIRST UNITED METHODIST CENTER (515 3rd St.) CHURCH EDUCATION WING Parking (320 5th Ave.) - Cooper Room A & B - Room 204 Visitors may acquire a permit - Room 206 B. BROOKINGS ARTS COUNCIL F. THE CARROT SEED KITCHEN for free parking in several - Library designated lots at the Parking (524 4th St.) CO. (310 Main Ave.) - Main Gallery J. FIRST UNITED METHODIST Services Office (1601 Stadium G. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF COMMUNITY LIFE CENTER Rd.) or the University Police C. BROOKINGS CINEMA 8 SOUTH DAKOTA (521 4th St.) Department (1405 Jackrabbit (north of church) (219 6th St.) - Community Room Ave.). Visitors may also use the - Theater #5 - Party on One K. OLD MARKET EATERY hourly pay lot on the east side - Party on Two (424 5th St.) of the Student Union. Parking at D. BROOKINGS CITY COUNTY the Performing Arts Center (for GOVERNMENT CENTER H. FIRST UNITED METHODIST Friday events) is free. (520 3rd St.) CHURCH (625 5th St.) VOLGA L. SCHADÉ VINEYARD/WINERY - Community Room - Sanctuary (21095 463rd Ave., Volga) - Council Chambers - Basement SIOUX FALLS SIOUXLAND PUBLIC LIBRARIES

DOWNTOWN BRANCH (200 N. Free PARKING Dakota Ave.) 72-HOUR LOT (NW of 3rd Ave. & 4th St.) BROOKINGS ACTIVITY CENTER/BROOKINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY LOT (SE of 5th Ave. & 4th St.) WASHINGTON PAVILION CENTRAL BUSINESS SUPPLY LOT (SW of 5th Ave. & 3rd St.) (301 S. Main Ave.) CITY/COUNTY GOVERNMENT LOT (SE of 5th Ave. & 3rd St.) - Belbas Gallery FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH LOT (West of Community Life Center) - Schulte Black Box Theater NAPA AUTO PARTS LOT (NW of 5th Ave. & 3rd St.) - Stage Science PARK & REC LOT (between 3rd St. & Front St.) - Tribal Art Gallery SPRINT/SWIFTEL LOT (NW of 5th Ave. & 4th St.)

Visit sdbookfestival.com for additional parking info and maps.

9 CHILDREN’S/Y.A.

EVOKING LAKOTA IMAGES The Infamous “People are stories,” says LaReau Joseph Marshall III, author of In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse. ara LaReau vividly remem- “We connect to stories better bers the moment she first than we do to those names thought about becoming a and dates and places.” In writer. She was in third his book, and the upcoming grade and an author visited sequel Horse Dancing, her classroom. Marshall introduces young “I didn’t realize you could tell sto- readers to Lakota history Kries for a living,” she said. “It blew my and gives them a glimpse mind!” of contemporary Native LaReau will have an op- American life through the portunity to return that fa- stories a Lakota grandfather, vor when she visits class- Nyles High Eagle, tells to his rooms and cultural centers LaReau’s writing career grandson, Jimmy. in Sioux Falls (Sept. 19 & passed its first milepost One message Marshall 20) and Brookings (Sept. in 2004 with the publica- hopes to instill in his audiences 21 & 22) as part of the tion of Rocko And Spanky is that Native American culture 2018 Young Readers One Go To A Party. Numerous exists today. “In all my travels Book South Dakota pro- picture books and articles in this country, I am always gram. She will be reading followed, and before long surprised when people sort from and discussing her she decided it was time to of assume that Native people “Infamous Ratsos” books, follow her bliss, “however are not here, or mostly gone, two of which have been bound into a corny that may sound.” She or that we don’t matter,” special volume as this year’s selection. started a freelance editing business and Marshall says. “We still have Nearly 7,000 complimentary copies continued to work on her own writing families. They go to school, have been distributed to third graders projects; the latter got an unforeseen they face all the things that across the state thanks to the sponsor- boost from a diagnosis of cancer in happen in society at large.” ship of the South Dakota Humanities 2010. LaReau became “a writing Marshall, who also penned Council, United Way of the Black fiend” during her involuntary down- the 2011 One Book South Hills, First Bank and Trust, John T. time, producing much that wasn’t for Dakota selection The Journey Vucurevich Foundation and Northern public consumption, but also the gene- of Crazy Horse, admits that Hills Federal Credit Union. sis of two series for young readers. writing for young people does “I have to say, to know that so many The Unintentional Adventures of the not come easily for him. But kids in the state will be reading my Bland Sisters: The Jolly Regina, fea- when you are a storyteller, book is a thrill to me,” she said. “What turing the low-key Jaundice and Kale some things remain constant. keeps me writing is knowing that kids Bland, came out in the fall of 2016. “I don’t care out there are reading my books.” The Infamous Ratsos launched the fol- who you write LaReau’s first job, after earning an lowing year. for,” Marshall M.F.A. in writing, literature and pub- “First and foremost, I want to tell says. “It’s lishing from Emerson College in Bos- a good story, but underneath, I really about evoking ton, was as an editor at Candlewick hope that these stories inspire conver- an image, a Press, in nearby Cambridge. There she sation,” LaReau said. The Ratso broth- reaction to had the opportunity to work with tal- ers are determined to grow up as tough something. ented writers like Kate DiCamillo, a as their truck driver father, but as their That’s really Newberry Medal winner who was the hilarious tale unfolds they learn that what writing’s all first Young Readers One Book South it’s better to be kind than tough. about.” Dakota author in 2014. 10 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS FICTION

Naming the Pain BRAVE DEEDS David Abrams spent 20 years t’s not ‘the thing that hap- community to speak to the issue of sex- in the Army. He got out in pened to me,’ or ‘the as- ual violence will be an integral addition 2008 with a pension, a duffel “ sault,’ or ‘the beating,’ or to the programming we already have in bag full of ideas and a well- ‘that,’” Alice Sebold writes the works for the Common Read,” says tuned ear for the creative in her 1999 memoir, Lucky. Kate Stock, Common Read committee profanity that is a constant “I think it’s important to call member. “It’s exciting for us to be able for soldiers of every era and it what it is.” Lucky recounts, in pain- to share messages of awareness and every war. fullyI honest detail, prevention of sexual Abrams’ first novel,Fobbit , Sebold’s rape as a assault not only with is a satiric look at life in a Syracuse University the students on our Forward Operating Base in college student and campus but also with Baghdad. Fobbit is a derisive its aftermath — the our community mem- slang term given to soldiers trial that followed, bers.” stationed there, “who make the misguided but In 2009 the Com- excuses not to go outside the well-meaning reac- mon Read series concertina wire into the action tions of family and started as a way to on the streets of Baghdad or friends and Sebold’s challenge SDSU stu- Ramadi or wherever,” explains own determination dents and introduce Abrams. to save herself. diverse perspectives Brave Deeds, Abrams’ Sebold is fearless on subjects that are second novel, published in when it comes to controversial through 2017, follows a squad of tackling taboo sub- a shared reading ex- soldiers outside the FOB’s jects. In her debut perience and a vari- fortified perimeter on an novel, The Lovely ety of events held unauthorized mission: to Bones, 14-year-old throughout the fall attend a memorial service for protagonist Susie Salmon nar- semester. In her three their sergeant. They navigate rates from heaven, describing her years of involvement the streets of Baghdad while kidnapping, rape and murder and with the committee, the myriad paths that led them her family’s subsequent struggles. Stock has seen ben- to that point are gradually A literary sensation when it was efits on campus and revealed. published in 2002, The Lovely in Brookings. “Any Abrams lives in Butte, Bones is one of 100 novels in- time we can get stu- Montana, where he writes, cluded in the PBS series The dents and community holds down a day job and wills Great American Read. Sebold’s members to engage in into existence The Quivering second novel, The Almost Moon, open dialogue about Pen, a blog whose purpose, delves into the dark side of moth- challenging but im- “can be summed up in two er/daughter relationships. portant topics, that’s a words: Book Evangelism,” he While Sebold is in Brookings, she success,“ says Stock. writes. “It is fueled by early- will address South Dakota State Uni- Acknowledging difficult issues can morning cups of coffee, the versity students and community mem- bring us strength, according to Sebold. occasional bers who have read this year’s Cam- “There also will be, no matter how bowl of pus and Community Common Read much we keep it at bay, chaos and trau- Cheez-Its selection, Wrecked by Maria Padian. ma. To embrace it is to understand we and a lifelong Padian’s novel spins multiple perspec- are only powerful when we admit we love of good tives to show the emotional impact of are powerless,” Sebold said in a 2014 books.” a sexual assault on a fictional college interview with the Homer News. “That campus. is how I go about writing and living.” “I think having Alice Sebold in the

11 POETRY

A POET’S FAREWELL Conservation and Poetry Lee Ann Roripaugh was appointed Poet Laureate of visitor to Falls Park in The marriage of poetry and conser- South Dakota in 2015, and Sioux Falls might spot vation proved natural for Cole, who for the last three years she has a discarded mattress grew up in a house full of books and journeyed to the far corners of trapped by an old cotton- with a father who forever urged his her realm as an ambassador of wood in the Big Sioux son outdoors to hunt, fish or simply verse. River and think it an eye- observe nature through long hikes. “It’s been such an honor sore. For Kevin Cole, it’s inspiration. Cole will speak on that very subject serving as the South Dakota A“It’s a dirty river, but it’s my river,” at this year’s festival. He credits Aldo State Poet Laureate,” said Cole writes in “Lunch,” one of 59 po- Leopold’s Sand County Almanac and Roripaugh. “I’ve had a ems in his collection Rachel Carson’s Silent marvelous time driving back entitled Late Summer Spring — the iconic and forth through our large Plums. 1962 book about the and very beautiful state. I’ve Cole’s work is a environmental dangers been particularly struck by how tribute to the geog- of pesticides — for welcoming and engaged and raphy and nature of propelling him down open to poetry the communities East River South Da- that path. “If I had to I’ve visited have been. Our state kota and northwest choose a book that’s is so vibrant and unique.” Iowa. Readers get been more influential Roripaugh succeeded the not so pleasant (a on me than any oth- David Allan Evans, who held river-soaked mattress, er, it’s Silent Spring,” the position for 12 years. Her an inebriated woman Cole says. “She [Car- appointment was the first at Falls Park) with the son] is the inspiration under a new law that specified much more pleasant for a lot of what I do, a single four-year term for all (tributes to great blue herons in early but also thinking about conservation future laureates, a change spring and a regal stand of Russian as a poetic act. A poem conserves which will provide opportunities olives). language, and that’s what a conser- for more poets to serve. Cole’s poems are written in the vationist does. They’re trying to con- Roripaugh’s term will end on voice of a person who has spent a life- serve the land. There’s something sa- June 30, 2019, and a new poet time surrounded by the rivers, lakes cred about it. I see the two as mutual laureate will be inaugurated at and prairies of eastern South Dakota forces in celebrating and sometimes the 2019 South Dakota Festival — a significant achievement given that lamenting the land.” of Books in Deadwood. the author grew up in Corpus Christi, Cole does exactly that in Late Sum- The South Dakota State Texas, earned bachelor’s and master’s mer Plums, published in 2016. An Poetry Society invites degrees in English at Texas A&M and interesting addition to the poems is anyone who a doctorate at Baylor. But it turns out latitude and longitude coordinates — would like to be South Dakota’s prairie pothole region clues to the places that inspired each considered for feels like home for Cole, who spent section. “The book is definitely about the position to his childhood among the wetlands place. I really wanted to emphasize submit a letter around Copano Bay. “If you look at the importance of place,” he says. of application photos of where I grew up compared “I think in American culture we’re and résumé to the sloughs and marshes anywhere losing that more and more, whether between Nov. 1 East River, most of the time people that’s because of urbanization or the and Dec. 1, 2018. can’t tell them apart,” says Cole, who forces of technology. I also wanted to For complete details, visit the teaches at the University of Sioux emphasize just how rich a very small South Dakota State Poetry Falls. “While you might think that piece of ground can be, and its po- Society website at www. South Texas and South Dakota are tential for art — painting, composing sdstatepoetrysociety.com worlds apart, in terms of geography, music or, in my case, writing poetry.” they really aren’t.”

12 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS NON-FICTION

RESURRECTING Race in America THE NEWS There was a time when a newsman — Walter Cronkite — was referred to as the most trusted man in America. Today, trust in the media is at its lowest level in the history of public opinion polls. What caused such a precipitous drop, and what can be done to once again place American journalism on solid ground? Thomas Patterson adroitly explores both topics in Informing the News: The Need for he New York Times’ land- opinion page and a prolific author — Knowledge-Based Journalism, mark series, “How Race Is eight books and counting — whose the 2018 One Book South Lived In America,” pub- subjects range across the contempo- Dakota. Patterson traces the lished in 2000, was born rary and historic West. news’ gradual fall into a world of five years earlier, when the Egan’s most recent book is The infotainment, where stories are verdict in O.J. Simpson’s Immortal Irishman, a biography of meant to entertain rather than murder trial was announced on nation- Thomas Francis Meagher, an Irish inform. There’s blame enough Tal television. revolutionary in the days of the Great to go around; the book explores “Every eye in the newsroom was Famine whose final chapter was a term different groups or concepts glued to the TV set,” recalled Times as the territorial governor of Montana. fueling the decline — information, Deputy Editor Gerald Boyd. “Whites As a novel, Meagher’s myriad adven- sources, knowledge, education, and blacks reacted completely differ- tures, escapes and triumphs between the audience and democracy itself. ently [to the not guilty verdict]. It was those stages could easily have been Patterson’s solution involves striking to us; we thought this split was dismissed as a highly improbable tale; not only training journalists in important.” as nonfiction, “it is without a shadow storytelling, but also ensuring that Timothy Egan, the Times’ Pacific of a doubt one of the finest Irish Amer- they gain sufficient knowledge Northwest correspondent, was one of ican books ever written,” wrote Niall about the topics on which they four writers who contributed essays to O’Dowd of Irish America magazine. report. But is there enough time the series, which won the 2001 Pulit- Egan’s book on photographer Ed- in today’s hectic, never-ending zer Prize for national reporting for the ward Curtis, Short Nights of the Shad- news cycle? “Compared with past newspaper. ow Catcher, was awarded the Carnegie periods, journalists now have less In his essay, the Seattle-based Egan Award for best nonfiction. His account time and fewer resources with wrote about three elected officials: of the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard which to work, which increases Governor Gary Locke, the first Chi- Time, won the 2006 National Book the likelihood of factual errors,” nese-American to serve as governor Award and figured prominently in Ken Patterson says. “Newsrooms have of a mainland state; King County Ex- Burns’ 2012 film on that era. been shrinking in size as a result of ecutive Ron Sims and two-term Seat- Egan was raised in a family of nine, declining revenues. The number of tle mayor Norm Rice, both of whom by a mother who loved books and a fa- journalists on staff at newspapers are African-American. Each faced ther with the Irish gift of finding joy and television stations has been the question of how, and how not, to in small things. A graduate of the Uni- cut by a third, and the decline is address the issue of race in their cam- versity of Washington, he also holds continuing. As a result, journalists paigns and time in office. honorary doctorates from Whitman who remain have been required to Egan worked for the Times for 18 College, Willamette University, Lewis produce news stories more often years, as a regional correspondent and and Clark College, and Western Wash- and more quickly. Speed is an a national enterprise reporter. He is ington University. enemy of accurate, deeply sourced currently a weekly contributor to its news.”

13 WRITERS’ SUPPORT Bob & Pat Fishback

BE YOUR OWN In more than 20 years of publishing books under her own imprint at Harper Collins, Laura Geringer Bass has helped countless authors put the finishing touches on a children’s book or young adult novel. But with the publication of Bass’s own new title, The Girl With More Than One Heart, she is helping foster a younger crop of potential authors. Bass, in conjunction with Abrams (her publisher) and First Book (a network of educators that provides books and other educational resources to Storytelling in the Digital Age children in need), launched the #BeYourOwn! Workshop. o you desire to be a writ- Drinking for Two Years,” went viral. Specifically targeting teen girls, er? Chicago author Andy Its success led to a book, Adulthood the workshops utilize 30 writing Boyle has a simple bit of for Beginners: All the Life Secrets No- prompts from Bass’ book to advice for you. “Put your body Bothered to Tell You. A second encourage young writers to tell butt in the chair and write. book, about “health, fitness and weight their stories. You don’t get better as a loss and why it’s all so dang hard,” is The main character of The writer if you’re not actively writing,” scheduled for release next summer. Girl With More Than One Heart Dhe says. “If you’re a busy human and What’s it like to go viral? “It’s defi- is 13-year-old Briana, who have to run around a lot, write in your nitely weird,” Boyle says. “A giant suddenly loses her father to a phone. Multiple chapters of my books man ran up to me on Michigan Ave- heart attack. To cope with the have been first written in my iPhone’s nue in Chicago and gave me a hug. A death, Briana immerses herself Notes app.” woman in my building stopped me and in reading and writing and Boyle learned the advantages of asked, ‘Are you that guy?’ But I think imagines that she has a second speed during his days as a newspaper the best part was the kind notes from heart that speaks to her in her reporter. “I try and slam something folks who read what I wrote and said it father’s voice, telling her to out as fast as possible, the roughest helped them.” “Be Your Own.” Following the of rough drafts,” he says. “You just A great part of Boyle’s appeal is storyline, the writing prompts try and bang something out, because his open and friendly writing style, urge girls to write about grief, you need something on paper before qualities he shares with one of his tragedy and other subjects you can make it better.” A cooling-off favorite digital storytellers, Nicole that are often difficult for period and revisions follow, but that’s Cliffe. “She’s one of the best things teenagers — already treading natural because “nobody ever writes about Twitter,” he says. “Part of what the sometimes-turbulent waters anything of length that’s perfect on she does that’s so great is sharing not of middle school — to navigate. their first try.” only great writing and stories she finds For the last two years, Now director of platform architec- online, but also being open about her Bass has also served ture at Axios, “someone who builds own life, and asking her followers to as a mentor with Girls the systems people write stories on,” share stories about their own lives, Write Now, a nonprofit Boyle is coming to the festival to talk which she then amplifies to her -audi organization that helps about the changing nature of storytell- ence. It’s like sitting around a campfire girls from low-income ing in our digital age. It’s something and hearing people tell amazing tales families in New York he experienced personally when his all day.” City tell their stories. 2015 blog post, “What I Learned Not

14 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING

“Little House” in the Real World A CRITIC’S VOICE Some people paint. Others fix aroline Fraser read Lau- like stories found in her books with- cars. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a ra Ingalls Wilder’s “Little in the historical context of the era in Sisseton-Santee Dakota from the House” series as an 8- or which she lived. For example, readers Crow Creek Reservation, writes. 9-year-old girl, and her im- learn that one factor behind the almost English is not Cook-Lynn’s first pressions sound like those nomadic life of Charles Ingalls may language, but it is the language of countless other children have been misfortunes that befell him she has chosen to pen works who were transfixed due to unscrupulous that are both award-winning Cby the pioneer sto- railroads and the nation- and controversial — 14 books ries. “The world she wide depression known of poetry, essays, novellas and was talking about was as the Panic of 1873 — blistering political and literary one that had meaning concepts certainly for- analysis. “My experiences as a to me because all of eign to preteen readers. writer have been spotty, to say my grandparents had “As a kid you’re focused the least,” she says. “When you been farmers in the on the happy endings,” are critical of the entire American Midwest — in the Da- Fraser says. “You read experience as an Indian person, kotas, Wisconsin and them as adventure sto- that’s not really a welcome place Minnesota,” says Fra- ries, and you love all to be.” ser. “So I would hear the characters. Some In her new book, In Defense of them talking about of them are among our Loose Translations: An Indian Life these things, and what most beloved figures in an Academic World, Cook-Lynn it was like. Especially in children’s literature. revisits her career as professor my grandmother. She would often talk They come across to a child as fair- of English and Native studies at about the work she had to do on the ly uncomplicated and wonderful and Eastern Washington University. farm outside of Duluth, and she real- warm. As an adult, other things leap “I have not been a fancier of the ly didn’t have any kind of romantic out at you. You can sense the real peril memoir so it’s kind of astonishing feelings about it. It seemed to be pretty they were in, and that may not come that I am writing one,” she says. grim and hard work — up before dawn, across to children quite as readily.” “I think it’s important for writers baking bread for this enormous family. Fraser was working on the Library who have some notice to write a So I had all these stories in my head, of America project in 2012 — specifi- personal thing because critics and and what the “Little House” books did cally a chronology of events — when readers write their own notion for me was put them in some sort of she saw the potential for a historical of who you are. I think writers context that a child could understand.” biography. “Little House” readers may very often want to say something Unfortunately, that initial read not immediately connect Wilder’s about who they think they are.” is where many of us stop. Fraser is mention of the “Minnesota Massacre” Cook-Lynn is also a co-mentor among the more dedicated fans who with the Dakota Uprising of 1862 and and co-founder of the Oak Lake read the series multiple times, but she subsequent execution of 38 Dakota Writers Society, a tribal writers’ went even further, exploring the lives Indians at Mankato. Fraser didn’t, but group celebrating its 25th year. “It and times of Laura and her family it led her to look at Wilder’s writing was an effort members through several research and from a different perspective. “When on our part writing projects as an adult. She wrote I looked that up and began reading to say several newspaper articles and book reviews about the background of that event, things and and edited the Library of America’s and what that said about what she was one of them edition of the “Little House” series. writing, I felt it was one of the most is, ‘Hey, we’re Her latest endeavor is Prairie Fires: fascinating ways the book could be still here The American Dreams of Laura In- opened up to adult readers,” she says. and we’re galls Wilder, which won the 2017 Pu- “That one particular example really Indians and litzer Prize for biography. made me think about the historical im- we write,’” Prairie Fires places Laura, her port of the books.” Cook-Lynn friends and family, and the fairy-tale- says. 15 PRESENTERS Fobbit, the debut novel about the Iraq ern plains of the United States to the sor of History at the University of Okla- War by DAVID ABRAMS, was named Carpathian Mountains in Eastern Eu- homa, specializing in ethnohistory and a New York Times Notable Book of 2012 rope. He brings an interdisciplinary out- the history of Native Americans of the and featured in Barnes & Noble’s Dis- look to topics ranging from river man- Great Plains and American Southwest. cover Great New Writers program. His agement to beekeeping to household He holds a B.A. from Concordia College, 20-year career as a jour- budgets. Amato is the editor of Con- an M.A. from the University of South nalist in the active-duty servation on the Northern Plains and Dakota and a Ph.D. from the University Army took him to multi- co-editor of Draining the Great Oasis. of Toledo. His latest book, Gabriel Ren- ple countries, including ville: From the Dakota War to the Cre- Iraq, and informs much Over 35 years at Southwest Minnesota ation of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Reser- of his fiction, including State University, JOSEPH A. AMATO vation, 1825-1892, will be released at his latest novel, Brave Deeds. A Penn- taught history and founded the histo- the festival. sylvania native, Abrams holds an M.F.A. ry department, the rural in creative writing from the University of studies curriculum and JACOB M. APPEL is the author of Alaska-Fairbanks, blogs about the liter- the Center for Rural and three novels, including 2017’s Millard ary life at The Quivering Pen and lives Regional Studies. His pub- Salter’s Last Day, seven short story col- in Butte, Montana with his wife. lications have focused on lections, an essay collection, a cozy mys- European cultural and tery and a thriller. His first novel, The A professor of social sci- intellectual history, ru- Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, won the ence at Southwest Min- ral and local history, family history and 2012 Dundee International Book Award, nesota State University, memoirs, philosophy, poetry and fiction. and his short fiction collection, Scout- ANTHONY AMATO Buffalo Man is his most recent book ing for the Reaper, won the 2012 Hud- focuses his scholarship on and his first novel. son Prize. Appel teaches at the Mount places and cases where Sinai School of Medicine in New York economy, environment GARY CLAYTON ANDERSON is City and serves as an attending physi- and culture converge, from the north- the George Lynn Cross Research Profes- cian at Mount Sinai Hospital.

16 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS PRESENTERS NICOLE BAART is the mother of five tions ever written. His second book, children from four different countries. American Wolf, was named a Best Book The cofounder of a nonprofit organi- of 2017 by Outside magazine and a zation, One Body One Best Science Book of 2017 by Science Hope, she lives in a small Friday. Blakeslee lives in Austin, Texas, town in Iowa. She is also with his family. the author of nine critically acclaimed novels, A nationally-known public intellectu- including Little Broken al and bestselling author, JOSEPH Things, a People Mag- BOTTUM is a professor of cyber-eth- azine Editor’s Top Pick and a Good- ics and director of the Classics Institute reads Best Book of Fall. Baart’s books at Dakota State University. The former have been featured in Southern Living, literary editor of the Weekly Standard Country Woman, Book Page and Glam, and former editor-in-chief of the jour- and on Yahoo Lifestyle. nal First Things, Bottum holds a Ph.D. in medieval philosophy. His books in- An emeritus professor at the Missouri clude the South Dakota memoir The School of Journalism and a faculty fel- Christmas Plains, the sociological study low at the Poynter Institute, JACQUI An Anxious Age and the children’s book BANASZYNSKI worked in news- The World Is Awake. papers for 30 years and now teaches students and professionals around the ANDY BOYLE is a writer, technologist world. While at the St. Paul Pioneer and speaker whose work has appeared Press, her series “AIDS in the Heartland” in many publications and, in the case of won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in feature one project, was cited in the 2012 Pu- writing, and her eyewitness account litzer Prize for breaking news. His first of the African famine was a finalist for book, Adulthood for Beginners, was the 1986 Pulitzer Prize in international described by Library Journal as “the reporting. perfect gift for a high school or college graduate” and by the Associated Press AIMÉE BISSONETTE grew up with as “darn funny.” When not working on her suitcase never fully unpacked — his next book about the challenges of a her family moved of- healthy lifestyle, he guides major tech- ten and she attended nology decisions at Axios. eight different K-12 schools. With a bach- A native of Australia, GREGORY elor’s degree from Col- BRYAN teaches at the University of orado State University Manitoba, specializing in and a law degree from children’s literature. He the University of Minnesota Law School, has published six books, she has worked as an occupational most recently Paul Goble, therapist, teacher, lawyer and small Storyteller, which won business owner. Bissonette has pub- the Midwest Independent lished a book for K-12 teachers and ad- Publishing Association’s ministrators on legal issues related to 2018 Book Award for best biography. technology in the schools. She lives Bryan identifies South Dakota as one of with her family in Minneapolis. his favorite travel destinations because of its exciting history, unique and varied NATE BLAKESLEE is a writer- geography, and friendly, helpful people. at-large for Texas Monthly. His first book, Tulia, was named JULIE BUNTIN’s debut novel, Mar- a New York Times No- lena, was a finalist for the National table Book of 2005 and Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, described by The Wash- longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s ington Post as one of the First Novel Prize and named a best book most important books of 2017 by more than 13 outlets, in- about wrongful convic- cluding The Washington Post and NPR. 17 PRESENTERS She is the Director of Writing Programs recent book is Beneath at Catapult. the Same Stars, a novel of the 1862 U.S.-Da- AMBY BURFOOT is the 1968 Bos- kota War. She makes ton Marathon winner who, last April, her home in Brookings, finished Boston for the 24th time on where she resides with the 50th anniversary of his win. Now her husband, teenage 71, Burfoot has covered 110,000 miles son and two cats in a cozy 120-year- and has been a Runner’s World editor old house. or writer for 40 years. He has written or co-written six books, including his lat- ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN is profes- est, Run Forever, which blends his vast sor emerita of English and Native stud- personal experience, interviews with ies at Eastern Washington University. hundreds of top runners and coaches, She received the 2007 Lifetime Achieve- and the latest scientific studies. ment Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, was the recipient ANGELICA SHIRLEY of a National Endowment for the Hu- CARPENTER, Curator manities fellowship and won the Gus- Emerita of the Arne Nix- tavus Myers Center Award for the Study on Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America. She of Children’s Literature co-founded Wíčazo Ša Review and is the at California State Uni- author of several books, including New versity, Fresno, is the Indians, Old Wars and her 2018 memoir, author of five biographies for young In Defense of Loose Translations. people, including L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll and 2018’s Born Criminal: Matil- ABC News correspon- da Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist. In dent LINSEY DAVIS 2020, to celebrate the centennial of files reports for World women’s suffrage in the United States, News, Good Morning she will publish a picture book, The America, 20/20 and Voice of Liberty, about an 1886 protest Nightline. She has cov- by women’s rights activists at the dedi- ered major news stories cation of the Statue of Liberty. such as the Las Vegas massacre, the Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein allegations KEVIN L. COLE is a professor of En- and subsequent #MeToo movement, glish at the University of Sioux Falls. He the Boston Marathon bombing and sev- has received fellowships from the Na- eral of President Obama’s trips overseas. tional Endowment for Davis’ work has received several hon- the Arts and South Da- ors, including two Emmy Awards and a kota Arts Council, the regional Edward R. Murrow Award. In National Endowment for February 2018 her children’s book, The the Humanities and the World is Awake, became a bestseller. Council of Independent Colleges. Cole’s first po- Wine enthusiasts DENISE DEPAOLO etry collection, Late Summer Plums, was and KARA SWEET are co-authors of published in 2016. He also writes plays South Dakota Wine. DePaolo is a Sioux and is at work on two novels. When not Falls media professional with experience teaching or writing, he’s probably walk- in print and TV journalism, hospitality ing through the countryside looking for and marketing. She loves wine, history birds. and the outdoors. A Rapid City resident, Sweet is a lifelong ed- PHYLLIS COLE-DAI seeks in her ucator, a wine market- writing to cross deep divides to promote ing professional and a understanding and respect. She has certified sommelier edited or authored works in multiple through the Society genres, including historical fiction, spir- of Wine Educators itual nonfiction and poetry. Her most and the International 18 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS 19 PRESENTERS Wine and Spirits Guild. She enjoys hik- War POW and one of a ing the Black Hills, reading great litera- handful of American In- ture and traveling to wine destinations. dian aviators to fly combat missions in World Blood Feud is the sixth War II and Korea. Flynn’s book in BRENDA new book on Ben Reif- DONELAN’s Universi- el, Without Reservation, ty Mystery Series, set in examines the career of South Dakota’s a fictional South Dako- only American Indian congressman. ta town. A lifelong resident of the state, Done- CAROLINE FRASER is the editor of lan grew up on a cattle ranch in Stanley the Library of America’s edition of Laura County, attended college in Brookings, Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books and and worked in Aberdeen as a probation the author of three works of nonfic- officer and later as a college professor. tion, including 2017’s Prairie Fires: The She loves reading, traveling and play- American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wild- ing with her two Himalayan cats, Yeti er. One of the New York Times’ Ten Best and Wolfie. Books of the Year, Prairie Fires won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for biography and TIMOTHY EGAN is a lifelong journal- the National Book Critics Circle Award ist and the author of eight books, most for biography. recently The Immortal Irishman. His account of the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard LAURA GERINGER BASS has writ- Time, won the 2006 National Book ten more than 20 books for young peo- Award, and he was featured promi- ple, including the ALA Notable Book A nently in the 2012 Ken Burns film, The Three Hat Day, the ALA Dust Bowl. As a national correspondent Best Book Sign of the for The New York Times, Egan shared Qin and the new mid- a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 with a team of dle-grade novel The reporters for the series “How Race is Girl with More than Lived in America.” One Heart. As publisher of the award-winning Minnesota native LEIF ENGER Harper Collins imprint Laura Gering- worked as a reporter and producer for er Books, she has spent more than 20 Minnesota Public Radio before writ- years collaborating with celebrated ing his bestselling debut children’s authors and artists. She also novel Peace Like a Riv- serves on the advisory board of First er, which won the Inde- Book, which has delivered over 170 mil- pendent Publisher Book lion books to children in need. Award and was named one of the best books of ANNETTE GORDON-REED is the the year by the Los An- Charles Warren Professor of American geles Times and Time magazine. His Legal History at Harvard Law School second novel, So Brave, Young, and and a professor of history in the Fac- Handsome, was also a national best- ulty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard seller, No. 8 on Amazon’s Top 100 Ed- University. She won the itors’ Picks and a Midwest Booksellers’ 2009 Pulitzer Prize in his- Choice Award Honor Book for Fiction. tory for The Hemingses of Monticello, and her SEAN J. FLYNN is a professor of his- many other honors in- tory at Dakota Wesleyan University in clude a Guggenheim Mitchell. He has published articles on Fellowship in the humanities, a MacAr- American Indian history and American thur Fellowship, the National Human- and South Dakota military history, in- ities Medal and a fellowship from the cluding Chief, Marine Corps Warrior, a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center biography of his father, Lt. Col. John for Scholars and Writers at the New P. “Pat” Flynn Jr., a decorated Korean York Public Library. 20 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS GABE HABASH is the author of the Journalist BRANTLEY HARGROVE ing Cultural Identities Through Transra- novel Stephen Florida, a finalist for the has explored the world of South Ameri- cial Adoption: Outcomes of the Indian New York Public Library’s Young Li- can jewel thieves, gone inside the effort Adoption Project (1958–1967) and her ons Fiction Award and the ABA Indies to reverse-engineer supertornadoes 2018 memoir, Bitterroot: A Salish Mem- Choice Award for Adult Debut Book using supercomputers oir of Transracial Adoption. Harness of the Year, and named a best book of and chased violent storms lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. 2017 by NPR, Bookforum, Electric Liter- from the Great Plains to ature and more. He is the fiction reviews the Texas coast, including A 40-year veteran of sportscasting in editor for Publishers Weekly. a land-falling Category 4 South Dakota, MIKE HENRIKSEN hurricane and twin EF-4 hosts a weekly sports interview show, MICHAEL HALL is the author and il- tornadoes that chewed through a small Sportsmax, and co-hosts a daily sports lustrator of the New York Times best- Nebraska farming village. He has writ- interview show, Calling All Sports. He is seller, My Heart is Like a Zoo, as well as ten for Wired, Popular Mechanics and a popular public speaker and the voice the critically acclaimed Red: a Crayon’s Texas Monthly. Hargrove lives in Dallas, of South Dakota High School basketball Story, Perfect Square, Texas, with his wife and two cats. The and football championships on South Frankencrayon and Lit- Man Who Caught the Storm is his first Dakota Public Broadcasting. Henrik- tle i. Before becoming book. sen’s first book, First Person, collects a children’s author, he some of his best interviews with South was an award-winning A member of the Confederated Sal- Dakota sports legends. graphic designer whose ish Kootenai Tribes, SUSAN DEVAN work — including graphic identities for HARNESS is a writer, lecturer and oral PATRICK HICKS is the the City of Saint Paul, Macalester Col- historian, and has been a author of several books, lege and the Minnesota Historical Soci- research associate for the including poetry and ety — has been widely recognized for Tri-Ethnic Center for Pre- essay collections and a its simple and engaging approach. Hall vention Research at Col- novel, The Commandant lives in Minneapolis. orado State University. of Lubizec, which was She is the author of Mix- among only 20 books selected for Na-

21 PRESENTERS tional Reading Group Month and was ELISA KORENNE is an Wilder (2017). She and the project team listed as a Top Pick for First-Year Col- award-winning author are currently editing Laura Ingalls Wild- lege Programs. He was recently a final- and songwriter known er’s Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts for ist for an Emmy in the category of Writ- for original songs, shows publication in 2019. er: Short Form. A dual citizen of Ireland and stories about odd- and America, Hicks is the Writer-in-Res- balls in history. She left Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Or- idence at Augustana University and a New York City in 2006 to egon, WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER faculty member at the MFA program at be an artist-in-residence in west central briefly attended Stanford University Sierra Nevada College. Minnesota and, to her surprise, stayed. before being kicked out Since leaving an urban career in inter- for radical activities. Be- “South Dakota’s Voice of Healthcare,” national development and technology, fore becoming a full- South Dakota Hall of Fame inductee she has become known as a pioneering time writer, he worked DR. RICHARD (RICK) HOLM is host rural artist. Korenne’s Hundred Miles to in several manly enter- of On Call with the Prairie Doc, a week- Nowhere: An Unlikely Love Story — a prises, including logging ly television show on South Dakota Next Generation Indie Book Award Fi- and heavy construction. Public Broadcasting. His nalist — tells her story of finding some- Desolation Mountain, the 17th entry health musings appear where, and someone, in the middle of in his New York Times bestselling Cork in 57 newspapers, and nowhere. O’Connor mystery series, comes out in he has contributed to August. His 2013 stand-alone novel Or- four medical textbooks NANCY TYSTAD KOUPAL is found- dinary Grace won several awards, in- and numerous nation- ing director of the South Dakota Histor- cluding the Edgar Award for Best Novel, al medical journals and ical Society Press and editor in chief of and was chosen as the 2015 One Book co-authored The Picture of Health. A the Pioneer Girl Project, a research and South Dakota. practicing physician, researcher, teach- publishing program of the State Histor- er and mentor for nearly 40 years, Holm ical Society. She was project director for The author of the 2018 Young Read- will release Life’s Final Season: a Guide Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiog- ers One Book South Dakota, The In- for Aging and Dying with Grace at the raphy (2014) and editor of Pioneer Girl famous Ratsos: Two Heads Are Better festival. Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls than One, KARA LAREAU was born

22 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS and raised in Connecticut. After receiv- Heart Berries, is a New York Times ing her M.F.A. from Emerson College bestseller. in Boston, she worked at Candlewick Press, Scholastic Press and her own The author of nine books of poetry, creative consulting agency, Bluebird including her latest, Loon in Late No- Works, editing award-winning titles by vember Water, FREYA MANFRED celebrated authors like Kate DiCamillo. has won a Harvard/Rad- LaReau also writes picture books and a cliffe Fellowship, an NEA middle-grade trilogy, The Unintentional Grant and the 2009 Mid- Adventures of the Bland Sisters. west Booksellers’ Choice Award. Her memoir, Fred- JON K. LAUCK has written or edited erick Manfred: A Daugh- several books, including Finding a New ter Remembers was nominated for a Midwestern History, and Minnesota Book Award and an Iowa is co-author and co-ed- Historical Society Award. Her sons, itor of three volumes of award-winning artists Bly and Row- The Plains Political Tradi- an Pope, are celebrated in her mem- tion. The immediate past oir, Raising Twins: A True Life Adven- president of the Midwest- ture. She’s married to screenwriter ern History Association, he serves as ad- Thomas Pope. junct professor of history and political science at the University of South Dako- JOSEPH M. MARSHALL III is a ta, associate editor and book review ed- teacher, historian, writer, storyteller itor of Middle West Review, series editor and Lakota craftsman. Raised on the of Studies in Midwestern History and Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, he is host of the Heartland History podcast. an enrolled member of the Sicangu La- kota tribe. Writing for both youth and JESS LOUREY is an Agatha, Antho- adults, Marshall has published nonfic- ny and Lefty-nominated author best tion works, novels, short stories and known for her Mira James mysteries, screenplays. He has also appeared in which have earned multiple starred re- television documentaries and the net- views from Library Journal and Book- work movie Return to Lonesome Dove, list. Jess also writes sword and sorcery served as technical advisor for several fantasy, YA adventure, magical realism productions and narrated the six-part and feminist thrillers. She is a tenured mini-series Into the West. professor of creative writing and sociol- ogy and a recipient of The Loft’s Excel- MARTA MCDOWELL lives, writes lence in Teaching fellowship. When not and gardens in Chatham, New Jersey. teaching, reading or dorking out with She shares her garden her family, she is dreaming of her next with her husband, Kirke story. Bent, their crested cocka- tiel, Sydney, and assorted A member of the Seabird Island First Na- wildlife. At the New York tion, TERESE MARIE MAILHOT has Botanical Garden, Marta published work in The Atlantic, Guer- teaches landscape history and horticul- nica, The Toast, Yellow ture and has been twice named Instruc- Medicine Review and tor of the Year. McDowell’s books in- elsewhere. She served clude The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder, as Saturday Editor at The All the Presidents’ Gardens, Beatrix Pot- Rumpus and columnist ter’s Gardening Life and the forthcom- at Indian Country Today. ing Emily Dickinson’s Gardens. An M.F.A. graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts and the recipient JOHN E. MILLER is a writer and a his- of several fellowships, she was recently torian of recent American history. He named the Tecumseh Postdoctoral Fel- taught for almost three decades at low at Purdue University. Her first book, South Dakota State University and has written seven books, including Looking 23 PRESENTERS for History on Highway JILL MOMADAY is a mother, actor, Choice Award, the Aesop Award and 14 and three volumes on writer and filmmaker whose film, Re- the Western Writers of America Spur Laura Ingalls Wilder, as turn to Rainy Mountain, documents Award. well as many articles and her Kiowa heritage and life in the arts chapters on the history as the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-win- PAULA M. NELSON is a historian of politics, small towns, ning author N. Scott Momaday. She of South Dakota and the Great Plains Midwestern culture and is also family advisor and archivist for with interests in rural life more. His most recent book is Democ- the forthcoming PBS American Masters and culture, small towns, racy and the Informed Citizen: A South episode featuring her father. Moma- women’s history and ag- Dakota Perspective. day served as chief of protocol in New riculture. She is the au- Mexico’s Department of Cultural Affairs. thor of After the West SUMMER MILLER is a freelance Her film credits include Tony Hillerman’s Was Won and The Prai- food journalist, recipe developer, public Coyote Waits, produced by Robert Red- rie Winnows Out Its Own speaker and author. Her work has ap- ford, and Silent Tongue, written and di- and editor of Sunshine Always: The peared in Bon Appetit, Eating Well, Grit, rected by Sam Shepard. Courtship Letters of Alice Bower and Jo- SAVEUR and Every Day seph Gossage of Dakota Territory. Most with Rachael Ray. Mill- DONALD F. MONTILEAUX is a recently, Nelson co-edited The Plains er’s book, New Prairie master ledger artist and storyteller. Fol- Political Tradition, Vol. 3, and contribut- Kitchen, was awarded lowing in the footsteps of his forefa- ed an essay to Pioneer Girl Perspectives a Nebraska Book Award, thers, as well as mentors describing Laura Ingalls Wilder’s vision shortlisted for the In- like Oscar Howe and of women’s roles and farm life. ternational Gourmand Herman Red Elk, he cre- Award, noted by Epicurious as a “need ates books with striking KENT NERBURN is the author of to read” cookbook and heralded by images that capture the 14 books on spiritual values and Na- Oprah Winfrey’s private chef as “more Lakota way of life. His tive American themes, including Let- than a cookbook — it’s a love letter to Tasunka, featuring both ters to My Son, The Soul of an Indian the heartland.” English and Lakota, won four nation- and, most recently, Dancing with the al awards: the Moonbeam, the Mom’s Gods. His book Neither Wolf Nor Dog

24 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS was made into a feature film in 2016. movies he has worked on are Bad Boys, poems have appeared in journals in- After 25 years in northern Minnesota, Someone to Watch Over Me, Lords of cluding Pacific Review, Switchgrass Nerburn and his wife now live in Port- Discipline, Fraternity Row, The Curious Review, The Briar Cliff Review, Ame- land, Oregon. Case of Benjamin Button and Sweet thyst Arsenic and Pasque Petals, and Land. His book, Good Scripts, Bad have received prizes from the Nation- THOMAS E. PATTERSON is Bradlee Scripts analyzes 25 of the best and al Association of State Poetry Societ- Professor of Government and the Press worst scripts in Hollywood. ies, among others. Her first collection at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is is The Sea Is My Ugly Twin. Remund the author of the 2018 JIM REESE is associate professor of and her husband live in Vermillion in One Book South Da- English and director of the Great Plains a multi-generational, multi-species kota, Informing the Writers’ Tour at Mount Marty College home. News, and many other in Yankton, and editor-in-chief of 4 titles examining politics P.M. Count. His hon- JESSIE TAKEN ALIVE and the media, includ- ors include an Allen RENCOUNTRE is a ing The Vanishing Vot- Ginsberg Poetry Award. Hunkpapa Lakota from er, Out of Order and The Unseeing Reese is one of six art- the Standing Rock Sioux Eye. A South Dakota State University ists-in-residence with Tribe who teaches the political science graduate, Patterson the National Endow- JAG (Jobs for America’s received his Ph.D. from the University ment for the Arts’ inter- Graduates) program at of Minnesota. agency initiative with the Department Rapid City High School. She holds a of Justice’s Federal Bureau of Prisons master’s degree in counseling and hu- THOMAS POPE, professor at the and a contractual education instruc- man resource development from South Minneapolis College of Art and De- tor for the South Dakota Department Dakota State University and was in- sign, worked for 30 years as a profes- of Corrections Writing for Reentry spired to write her first children’s book, sional screenwriter for Francis Coppo- Program. Pet’a Shows Misun the Light, while la, Ridley Scott, Barry Levinson, Penny working as a school counselor. Based Marshall, Frank Oz, Robert Redford, MARCELLA REMUND teaches at on the story, which teaches compas- Wim Wenders and others. Among the the University of South Dakota. Her sion and forgiveness, Rencountre was

25 PRESENTERS named the 2017 Great Plains Emerging named a Book Sense Book of the Year Drawing inspiration from sources as di- Tribal Writer. and made into a major motion picture. verse as her Minnesota A frequent speaker on violence against surroundings and Irish South Dakota State Poet Laureate LEE women, Sebold is a member of the Na- storytelling traditions, ANN RORIPAUGH is the author of tional Leadership Council for RAINN. SARAH STONICH four volumes of poetry, including Dan- org (Rape, Abuse & Incest National has written several crit- darians and On the Cusp of a Danger- Network). ically acclaimed novels, ous Year. She has won including 2013’s Vaca- the Association of Asian KEVIN CHARLES SMITH never tionland. A sequel, Laurentian Divide, American Studies Book outgrew his fascination with Peter Pan, will be released in September. Stonich Award in poetry/prose pirates and high seas has been awarded a Minnesota State in 2004 and the Nation- adventure. After a 35- Arts Board Fellowship and a Loft McK- al Poetry Series in 1998. year career, culminating night Fellowship, among others. The Roripaugh is a Profes- as Kellogg Company’s founder of WordStalkers.com, she lives sor of English at the University of South Senior Vice President in Minneapolis and spends summers in Dakota, where she serves as Director of of Marketing Services, northeastern Minnesota. Creative Writing and Editor-in-Chief of Smith set sail on his sec- South Dakota Review. ond passion, combining his long-imag- A professor of history at Presentation ined stories with meticulous research College in Aberdeen, ALICE SEBOLD is the author of three to create the Bilge Rat, Pirate Adventur- BRAD TENNANT is an No.1 bestselling books, including the er series for young adults and mature active researcher, writer memoir Lucky and two novels. Her readers alike. Demon Pirate, the third and presenter on a vari- 2002 debut, The Lovely Bones, was an book, debuts September 19 – Interna- ety of regional topics, like international bestseller, with transla- tional Talk Like a Pirate Day. Smith and those in his current book, tions in over 45 languages and sales of his wife Pat now reside in Florida, closer On This Day in South Dakota History. over 5 million copies in America alone. to the sea. He is also a long-time SDHC Speakers It was selected for Oprah’s Book Club, Bureau presenter and book discussion

26 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS 27 PRESENTERS leader. Tennant is serving his fourth Dakota with her husband, Doug (the term on the board of trustees of the other Clint Eastwood), and their dog, South Dakota State Historical Society. Livie. Together they share – sometimes not fairly – four children and three CRAIG TSCHETTER enlisted in grandchildren. the United States Marine Corps at 18, served 20 months as a combat radio JERRY WILSON lives with his poet operator in Vietnam and wife Norma in a geo-solar home on completed his military 150 acres of Missouri River bluff near service as a drill instruc- Vermillion. He spends tor in San Diego. After his days reading; writ- his honorable discharge, ing; restoring, managing he returned to his native and enjoying the native South Dakota to earn a degree in mor- prairie and woods; and tuary science, launch a 30-year career working for human and in the funeral service industry and start environmental sustainability. His 2018 a family. He lives in Brookings with Del- book, Seasons of the Coyote, was pre- la, his wife of 47 years, and stays busy ceded by a historical novel, a short sto- writing, speaking to groups and enjoy- ry collection, an environmental mem- ing retirement. oir and a socio-historical travel book. He is working on a novel about what LORI WALSH is host of South Dako- drives illegal immigrants to cross the ta Public Radio’s In the Moment, a live U.S.-Mexico border. news and issues program. A writer, blogger, photog- RUBY R. WILSON, co-editor of Po- rapher, poet and member etry of Presence, has published three of the National Book Crit- chapbooks, including Maybe the Moon ics Circle and Society for is Falling, a winner of the Children’s Book Writers & 2014 South Dakota State Illustrators, Walsh has worked as a free- Poetry Society chapbook lance journalist for the Sioux Falls Argus competition. Her work Leader and as a humanities scholar for has been featured in in- the South Dakota Humanities Council. vitational exhibits such as P3 (Painters, Poets & Pavilion) and Retired lawman C.M. WENDELBOE in anthologies including Crazy Woman writes murder mysteries with a Western Creek. An archivist for South Dakota flair, as well as traditional Westerns. His State University Archives & Special Col- 38-year career in law enforcement in- lections, she lives on an acreage in ru- cluded service as a deputy ral Brookings County with her husband. sheriff, police chief, poli- cy adviser and more, and ROSE ROSS ZEDIKER writes con- he assisted federal and temporary and historical inspirational tribal law agencies em- romances and has hundreds of pub- broiled in conflicts with lishing credits in the Christian magazine American Indian Movement activists in genre for children and adults. Zediker’s South Dakota. Long known for his Spir- titles have been finalists it Road Mysteries, Wendelboe debuted for the RITA, National three new mystery series in 2017-2018. Reader’s Choice, Book- sellers Best and Book Buy- CHRISTINE MAGER WEVIK is the ers Best award contests. author of It’s Only Hair, a humorous Under the pseudonym self-help book about liv- Rosemarie Ross, she is contracted to ing and coping with bald- write three Courtney Archer Cozy Mys- ness, and Vacant Eyes, an teries for Kensington Publishing, with award-winning paranor- releases beginning in Fall 2019. mal mystery. She lives on a farm in southeast South 28 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS 29 YOUNG READERS FESTIVAL Sept. 19-20: Sioux Falls | Sept. 21-22: Brookings Celebrating five years of building enthusiasm for reading and writing among youth with school visits and public presentations by authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. For general inquiries about the Young Readers Festival, call Jennifer Widman, Director of the South Dakota Center for the Book, (605) 688-5715.

YOUNG READERS ONE BOOK his year, SDHC will give away almost YA authors who will speak to readers of all 7,000 copies of the 2018 Young ages at schools and cultural venues in Sioux Readers One Book, The Infamous Falls Sept. 19-20 and Brookings Sept. 21-22. TRatsos: Two Heads Are Better Than One, to SDHC’s collaborators — First Bank & Trust, students in more than 25 communities across Black Hills Reads: Campaign for Grade- South Dakota. At the Young Readers Festival, Level Reading, Northern Hills Federal Credit author Kara LaReau will talk in person with Union, John T. Vucurevich Foundation and at least 2,500 of the third-graders who receive United Way of the Black Hills — are helping the book and by livestream with several provide books, author presentations and hundred more. supplemental resources for students, teachers At the Young Readers Festival, LaReau and families. will be joined by 11 other children’s and

30 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS THURSDAY, Sept. 20 To schedule class visits in Sioux Falls, call the Washington Pavilion at (605) 367-6000. Washington Pavilion Siouxland Public Libraries Schulte Black Stage Science Belbas Theater Tribal Arts Gallery Downtown Branch Box Theater Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Sioux Falls 10-10:45 "Indians" vs. I Make Picture From Three Hats to One Pet'a Shows Misun the am Indians: Writing the Books, and You Heart: How My Ideas Light: Kindness Can Truth - Joseph M. Can Too! - Become Books - Laura Change the World - Jessie Marshall III Michael Hall Geringer Bass Taken Alive Rencountre 11-11:45 Arrr: Researching Writing About From Lakota Oral Tradition am and Writing About the Great Out- to Printed Book - Donald Pirates - Kevin doors - Aimee F. Montileaux Charles Smith Bissonette 12:30-1:15 "Indians" vs. I Make Picture From Three Hats to One Pet'a Shows Misun the pm Indians: Writing the Books, and You Heart: How My Ideas Light: Kindness Can Truth - Joseph M. Can Too! - Become Books - Laura Change the World - Jessie Marshall III Michael Hall Geringer Bass Taken Alive Rencountre 1:30-2:15 How I Became a Writing About From Lakota Oral Tradition pm Writer, and What I People in History - to Printed Book - Donald Do - Angelica Shirley Aimee Bissonette F. Montileaux Carpenter

4-5 pm An Infamous Journey: How I Came to Be a Writer, and What I've Learned Along the Way - Kara LaReau FRIDAY, Sept. 21 To schedule class visits in Brookings, call the Children’s Museum at (605) 692-6700. Children’s Museum of South Dakota Community Room Party on Two Party on One Brookings Brookings Brookings 10-10:45 Pet'a Shows Misun the Light: Kindness I Make Picture Books, and You Can Writing About the Great Outdoors - am Can Change the World - Jessie Taken Too! - Michael Hall Aimee Bissonette Alive Rencountre 11-11:45 "Indians" vs. Indians: Writing the Truth - From Three Hats to One Heart: How From Lakota Oral Tradition to Printed am Joseph M. Marshall III My Ideas Become Books - Laura Book - Donald F. Montileaux Geringer Bass 12:30-1:15 Pet'a Shows Misun the Light: Kindness I Make Picture Books, and You Can Writing About People in History - pm Can Change the World - Jessie Taken Too! - Michael Hall Aimee Bissonette Alive Rencountre 1:30-2:15 Arrr: Researching and Writing About How I Became a Writer, and What I Do From Lakota Oral Tradition to Printed pm Pirates - Kevin Charles Smith - Angelica Shirley Carpenter Book - Donald F. Montileaux

4:30-5:30 An Infamous Journey: How I Came to Be pm a Writer, and What I’ve Learned Along the Way - Kara LaReau

MONDAY, Sept. 17 Performing Arts Center Larson Memorial Concert Hall 7 pm The Greatest Stories Rarely Told: Biblical Scholars and the Discrepancies of Scripture - Bart Ehrman

TUESDAY, Sept. 18 Brookings Cinema 8 Old Market Eatery Theater #5 1-3:45 pm Special Screening of The Lovely Bones With an Introduction by Local Filmmaker Jay Fishback 4-6 pm Books to Film: A Great American Tradition - Wine & Cheese Recep- tion With Filmmaker Jay Fishback

THURSDAY, Sept. 20 Alumni Center Woster Celebration Hall 7:30-9 pm Festival Fundraiser & Author Reception – TICKET REQUIRED ($50)

FRIDAY, Sept. 21 SDSU Briggs SD Art McCrory Library Museum Gardens Archives & Special Galleries Straw Bale House Collections Reading Room 12- All the Presidents' 12:45 Gardens: An pm Entertaining Romp Through the Grounds of the White House - Marta McDowell 1- First Ladies of Running - Paul Goble, Storyteller - 1:45 Amby Burfoot Gregory Bryan pm 2- Education, Relocations Into the Tornado with Tim 2:45 & Integration: Ben Reif- Samaras - Brantley Hargrove pm el's Vision for American Indian Acculturation - Sean Flynn (MORE FRIDAY EVENTS ON PAGE 34-35) 32 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS 33 FRIDAY, Sept. 21 KEY: CHILDREN’S/Y.A. | FICTION | HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING | NON-FICTION | POETRY | WRITERS’ SUPPORT | SPECIAL EVENT

Performing Arts Center SDSU Student Union Brookings City First United Brookings Public Library Schadé Vineyard & Winery County Building Methodist Church Larson Memorial Fishback Studio Dakota Rooms Pasque Room Walder Room Community Room Ed Wing Ed Wing Cooper Cooper Volga Concert Hall Theater Library 204 Room A Room B 9-9:45 The Great American am Read - Film Screening Hosted by Jay Fish- 10- back - The Grapes of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Digital Storytelling: What The History and Out- (Workshop) Location, (Workshop) (Workshop) 10:45 Wrath Rose Wilder Lane & Makes It Work? - Andy Boyle comes of American Location, Location: The Say What? The Game- am Yellow Journalism - Indian Child Placement - Importance of Setting Dialogue, Tag changing Plot Caroline Fraser Susan Devan Harness - Brenda Donelan & Lines & Narrative Box - Jess Christine Wevik - TICK- Voice - Patrick Lourey - ET REQUIRED - $20 Hicks - TICKET TICKET SDPB Live Broadcast - In the A Reporter’s Life: Sto- What Writers Can Learn from Oak Lake Writers Soci- 11- REQUIRED - REQUIRED - Moment Book Club - Lori ries From Assignments Linguists: Using Language ety: A 25th Anniversary 11:45 $20 $20 am Walsh Interviews Festival 11:30-1:30 - The on All Seven Continents Patterns to Create Pitch-Per- Conversation - Elizabeth Authors Julie Buntin, Gabe Great American Read - Jacqui Banaszynski fect Dialogue - Jacob M. Cook-Lynn and Other Habash, Angelica Shirley Car- - Film Screening Host- Appel Tribal Writers penter, Thomas E. Patterson ed by Jay Fishback 12- - The Outsiders On This Day in South Buffalo Man: Imagining the We Move As a Group: 12:45 Dakota History: A Trip Life of a Boy Giant on the Uniting the Genders in pm Through Time - Brad Minnesota River - Joseph the Fight Against Rape Tennant Amato Culture - Alice Sebold

1-1:45 Contemporary War Mirror Neurons & Poems The Hemingses of (Workshop) (Workshop) Make pm Fiction: Can Literature of Loss & Elegy - Lee Ann Monticello: Writing Hid- Crazy About Your Prose Sparkle Bridge the Civilian-Mil- Roripaugh den History - Annette Character - Elisa - Nicole Baart - 1:30-3:30 - The Great itary Divide? - David Gordon-Reed Korenne - TICKET TICKET REQUIRED 1:30-2:45 - Screening and Discus- American Read - Film Abrams REQUIRED - $20 - $20 sion: Return to Rainy Mountain Screening Hosted by - Jill Momaday 2-2:45 Jay Fishback - The Writing Northern Min- The Good Medicine of Poetry Writing Nature: Seasons pm Hitchhiker’s Guide to nesota - Sarah Stonich of Presence - Phyllis Cole-Dai of the Coyote: A Year the Galaxy & Ruby Wilson on Prairie Bluff - Jerry Wilson 3:30-4:15 PM EARLY BIRD MASS BOOK SIGNING IN COMMUNITY LIFE CENTER, FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 3:30-6 - The Great American Read - Film Screening Hosted by 4:30- Jay Fishback - The From the Prairie to the Bottle: Fruit Wines 5:30 Great Gatsby & Family Traditions - Wine Tasting & Book pm Talk - Denise DePaolo & Kara Sweet - TICKET REQUIRED - $10 6-7 pm Informing the Public by In- forming the News - One Book South Dakota Author Thomas E. Patterson 7-8 pm The Great American Read Special Event: An Evening with Alice Sebold, in Conver- sation With SDPB's Lori Walsh

8:15- Open Mic - South 9:30 Dakota State Poetry pm Society

34 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS Times and presenters subject to change. Check Festival Updates bulletin (available at Exhibitors’ Hall information booth or online at www.sdbookfestival.com) for updates. To purchase tickets for meals and workshops, please visit www.sdbookfestival.com.

8:15- Open Mic - South 9:30 Dakota State Poetry pm Society

35 SATURDAY, Sept. 22 KEY: CHILDREN’S/Y.A. | FICTION | HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING | NON-FICTION | POETRY | WRITERS’ SUPPORT | SPECIAL EVENT Children’s Museum of South Dakota Brookings Brookings Brookings Brookings City County Building First United Methodist Church The Carrot Arts Council Activity Center Public Library Seed Kitchen Community Room Party on One Party on Two Main Gallery Senior Center Cooper Rooms Council Community Room Sanctuary Basement Ed Wing Co. A&B Chambers 206

9- A Wilder Garden: An Infamous Journey: Common Creativity: The Sea Is My Massacre in Minne- Writing Across Novel Activism: A World Without Getting to Desolation Mountain - Explore the Festival On This Day in 9:45 Lessons From Laura's How I Came to Be a Engaging Kids in Lit- Ugly Twin: A sota: The True Story Genres: How You Addressing Issues, Reservations: Ben William Kent Krueger with South Dakota South Dakota am Natural World - Marta Writer, and What I’ve erature and Arts in an Reading - of the U.S.-Dakota Can and Why You Engaging Readers - Reifel and American Writes - Jason Kurtz History: A Trip McDowell Learned Along the Way Era of Common Core Marcella Remund War of 1862 - Gary Should - Rose Ross Elisa Korenne, Patrick Indian Acculturation Through Time - - Kara LaReau and STEM - Kevin Clayton Anderson Zediker Hicks, Sarah Stonich - Sean Flynn Brad Tennant Charles Smith 10- Pioneer Girl Perspec- The World Is Awake: Wonder Women: The Loon in Late Beneath the Same Adulthood for Readings From the Heart Berries: Writing Dancing with the Gods: Reflections Marketing Short Fic- Democracy and 10:45 tives - Nancy Tystad Writing for Young Chil- Importance of Strong November Water: Stars: Digging Into Beginners: 10 Pieces Expanded Oakwood About Indigenous on Life and Art - Kent Nerburn tion - Jacob Appel the Informed am Koupal, Caroline dren - Joseph Bottum & Female Characters A Reading - Freya the Stories Behind the of Advice and a Few Magazine - Patrick Intergenerational Citizen: A South Fraser, Paula M. Nelson Linsey Davis in Children's Books - Manfred Story (of Sara Wake- Funny Stories - Andy Hicks & Other Con- Trauma - Terese Dakota Perspec- Aimee Bissonette field and the U.S.-Da- Boyle tributors Marie Mailhot tive - John Miller kota War of 1862) - Phyllis Cole-Dai 11- Most Blessed of the Pet'a Shows Misun the Born Criminal: Re- Poetry as Conser- Buffalo Man: Imagin- Humor in Fiction: Murder in the Mid- In Defense of Loose Writing About the Best and the Embracing the (Not Mentors and New Prairie Kitchen: 11:45 Patriarchs: Thomas Jef- Light: Sharing Lessons claiming the Story of vation, Conser- ing the Life of a Boy Engaging Read- west - William Kent Translations: Writing Worst (Hard) Times - Timothy Egan Necessarily Easier) Op- Mentees in Uncovering Inspira- am ferson and the Empire Through Story - Jessie Matilda Joslyn Gage, vation as Poetry Giant on the Minne- ers with Extreme Krueger, Jess Lourey, an Academic Memoir tion of Self-Publishing My Life - Laura tion in the Everyday of the Imagination - Taken Alive Rencountre Radical Feminist - Kevin Cole sota River - Joseph Elements - David C.M. Wendelboe - Elizabeth Cook- - Christine Wevik Geringer Bass - Summer Miller Annette Gordon-Reed - Angelica Shirley Amato Abrams Lynn Carpenter 12- "Indians" vs. Indians: Work is Play: Science, A Reading by Prairie, Rivers & Paper: Movies vs. Real The Lost Story of the Reading From Virgil Wander: Old Town, New Eyes Nuts & Bolts: How to 12:45 Comparing Stereo- Art & Picture Books - South Dakota Control vs. Conserva- Life: Which Is More American Midwest - Bitterroot: A Salish - Leif Enger Start Writing - Brenda pm types With Reality - Michael Hall Poet Laureate Lee tion - Anthony Amato Fun? Which Can Jon Lauck, John Mill- Memoir of Adoption Donelan Joseph M. Marshall III Ann Roripaugh We Trust? - Thomas er, Joseph Bottum - Susan Devan Pope Harness 1 – 1:45 PM MASS BOOK SIGNING IN COMMUNITY LIFE CENTER, FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 2- Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Boy with the Writing Wrestling: Book & Ballad: The Grapes of Inno- Writing a Vietnam Modern Media: How 11 Years in Prison Readings by the Women Poets Finishing Your Writing Interviewing 2:45 Little House on the Golden Bellybutton: The Saga of Stephen Hundred Miles to vation: How Science War Memoir: Did We Get Here? and What Criminals Collective - Darla Biel, Barbara Project: From Idea to South Dakota's pm Prairie, and American How My Father's Joke Florida - Gabe Nowhere Concert is Leveling the Wine Resources and Where Do We Go Teach Me - Jim Reese Duffey, Jeanne Emmons, Lindy Completion - C.M. Sports Legends - Identity - Caroline Walked Into My Book - Habash & Reading - Elisa Playing Field - Denise Processes - Craig Now? - Andy Boyle, Obach, Marcella Remund, Christine Wendelboe Mike Henriksen Fraser Laura Geringer Bass Korenne DePaolo, Kara Sweet, Tschetter Linsey Davis, Stewart, Norma C. Wilson Anne Fennell Thomas E. Patterson 3- 16 Festivals, 31 Years From Lakota Oral Marlena: Friendship, Great Plains The Purpose of our Run Forever - Amby The Story of South The Sunny Side of Celebrating Poetry of Presence: A Writing the Tough The Fear of 3:45 in the Humanities Tradition to Modern Addiction & Loss History: Fact and Plates: Why Local Burfoot Dakota Politics: Jon Publishing: Main- Reading - Phyllis Cole-Dai, Ruby Stuff: Using Painful Death Is Dan- pm - SDHC Executive Printed Book - Donald in Michigan - Julie Fiction - Jerry Food Matters - Lauck, John Miller, taining a Positive Wilson, Freya Manfred, Joyce Experiences to Enrich gerous to Your Director Sherry DeBoer F. Montileaux Buntin Wilson Summer Miller Paula M. Nelson Attitude in a Difficult Sutphen, Marianne Zarzana Our Writing - Christine Health! - Richard in Conversation With Industry - Nicole Wevik Holm SDHC Board Member Baart Eric Abrahamson

5:30- American Wolf: The Saga of O-Six, 6:30 the Most Famous Wolf in the pm World - Nate Blakeslee

7-8 Tough Topics, Pulitzer Prizes: How pm Our Content and Its Coverage Have Changed Over the Years - Timothy Egan & Jacqui Banaszynski

36 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS Times and presenters subject to change. Check Festival Updates bulletin (available at Exhibitors’ Hall information booth or online at www.sdbookfestival.com) for updates. To purchase tickets for meals and workshops, please visit www.sdbookfestival.com.

Children’s Museum of South Dakota Brookings Brookings Brookings Brookings City County Building First United Methodist Church The Carrot Arts Council Activity Center Public Library Seed Kitchen Community Room Party on One Party on Two Main Gallery Senior Center Cooper Rooms Council Community Room Sanctuary Basement Ed Wing Co. A&B Chambers 206

9- A Wilder Garden: An Infamous Journey: Common Creativity: The Sea Is My Massacre in Minne- Writing Across Novel Activism: A World Without Getting to Desolation Mountain - Explore the Festival On This Day in 9:45 Lessons From Laura's How I Came to Be a Engaging Kids in Lit- Ugly Twin: A sota: The True Story Genres: How You Addressing Issues, Reservations: Ben William Kent Krueger with South Dakota South Dakota am Natural World - Marta Writer, and What I’ve erature and Arts in an Reading - of the U.S.-Dakota Can and Why You Engaging Readers - Reifel and American Writes - Jason Kurtz History: A Trip McDowell Learned Along the Way Era of Common Core Marcella Remund War of 1862 - Gary Should - Rose Ross Elisa Korenne, Patrick Indian Acculturation Through Time - - Kara LaReau and STEM - Kevin Clayton Anderson Zediker Hicks, Sarah Stonich - Sean Flynn Brad Tennant Charles Smith 10- Pioneer Girl Perspec- The World Is Awake: Wonder Women: The Loon in Late Beneath the Same Adulthood for Readings From the Heart Berries: Writing Dancing with the Gods: Reflections Marketing Short Fic- Democracy and 10:45 tives - Nancy Tystad Writing for Young Chil- Importance of Strong November Water: Stars: Digging Into Beginners: 10 Pieces Expanded Oakwood About Indigenous on Life and Art - Kent Nerburn tion - Jacob Appel the Informed am Koupal, Caroline dren - Joseph Bottum & Female Characters A Reading - Freya the Stories Behind the of Advice and a Few Magazine - Patrick Intergenerational Citizen: A South Fraser, Paula M. Nelson Linsey Davis in Children's Books - Manfred Story (of Sara Wake- Funny Stories - Andy Hicks & Other Con- Trauma - Terese Dakota Perspec- Aimee Bissonette field and the U.S.-Da- Boyle tributors Marie Mailhot tive - John Miller kota War of 1862) - Phyllis Cole-Dai 11- Most Blessed of the Pet'a Shows Misun the Born Criminal: Re- Poetry as Conser- Buffalo Man: Imagin- Humor in Fiction: Murder in the Mid- In Defense of Loose Writing About the Best and the Embracing the (Not Mentors and New Prairie Kitchen: 11:45 Patriarchs: Thomas Jef- Light: Sharing Lessons claiming the Story of vation, Conser- ing the Life of a Boy Engaging Read- west - William Kent Translations: Writing Worst (Hard) Times - Timothy Egan Necessarily Easier) Op- Mentees in Uncovering Inspira- am ferson and the Empire Through Story - Jessie Matilda Joslyn Gage, vation as Poetry Giant on the Minne- ers with Extreme Krueger, Jess Lourey, an Academic Memoir tion of Self-Publishing My Life - Laura tion in the Everyday of the Imagination - Taken Alive Rencountre Radical Feminist - Kevin Cole sota River - Joseph Elements - David C.M. Wendelboe - Elizabeth Cook- - Christine Wevik Geringer Bass - Summer Miller Annette Gordon-Reed - Angelica Shirley Amato Abrams Lynn Carpenter 12- 12:45 pm 12- "Indians" vs. Indians: Work is Play: Science, A Reading by Prairie, Rivers & Paper: Movies vs. Real The Lost Story of the Reading From Virgil Wander: Old Town, New Eyes Nuts & Bolts: How to Old Market Eatery 12:45 Comparing Stereo- Art & Picture Books - South Dakota Control vs. Conserva- Life: Which Is More American Midwest - Bitterroot: A Salish - Leif Enger Start Writing - Brenda Literary Lunch: Two pm types With Reality - Michael Hall Poet Laureate Lee tion - Anthony Amato Fun? Which Can Jon Lauck, John Mill- Memoir of Adoption Donelan Texans Talk About Writ- Joseph M. Marshall III Ann Roripaugh We Trust? - Thomas er, Joseph Bottum - Susan Devan ing True Tales - Nate Pope Harness Blakeslee & Brantley Hargrove - TICKET 1 – 1:45 PM MASS BOOK SIGNING IN COMMUNITY LIFE CENTER, FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH REQUIRED ($20) 2- Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Boy with the Writing Wrestling: Book & Ballad: The Grapes of Inno- Writing a Vietnam Modern Media: How 11 Years in Prison Readings by the Women Poets Finishing Your Writing Interviewing 2:45 Little House on the Golden Bellybutton: The Saga of Stephen Hundred Miles to vation: How Science War Memoir: Did We Get Here? and What Criminals Collective - Darla Biel, Barbara Project: From Idea to South Dakota's pm Prairie, and American How My Father's Joke Florida - Gabe Nowhere Concert is Leveling the Wine Resources and Where Do We Go Teach Me - Jim Reese Duffey, Jeanne Emmons, Lindy Completion - C.M. Sports Legends - Identity - Caroline Walked Into My Book - Habash & Reading - Elisa Playing Field - Denise Processes - Craig Now? - Andy Boyle, Obach, Marcella Remund, Christine Wendelboe Mike Henriksen Fraser Laura Geringer Bass Korenne DePaolo, Kara Sweet, Tschetter Linsey Davis, Stewart, Norma C. Wilson Anne Fennell Thomas E. Patterson 3- 16 Festivals, 31 Years From Lakota Oral Marlena: Friendship, Great Plains The Purpose of our Run Forever - Amby The Story of South The Sunny Side of Celebrating Poetry of Presence: A Writing the Tough The Fear of 3:45 in the Humanities Tradition to Modern Addiction & Loss History: Fact and Plates: Why Local Burfoot Dakota Politics: Jon Publishing: Main- Reading - Phyllis Cole-Dai, Ruby Stuff: Using Painful Death Is Dan- pm - SDHC Executive Printed Book - Donald in Michigan - Julie Fiction - Jerry Food Matters - Lauck, John Miller, taining a Positive Wilson, Freya Manfred, Joyce Experiences to Enrich gerous to Your Director Sherry DeBoer F. Montileaux Buntin Wilson Summer Miller Paula M. Nelson Attitude in a Difficult Sutphen, Marianne Zarzana Our Writing - Christine Health! - Richard in Conversation With Industry - Nicole Wevik Holm SDHC Board Member Baart Eric Abrahamson 4- 5:15 pm Old Market Eatery 5:30- American Wolf: The Saga of O-Six, Happy Hour for Readers & Writers with LITERARY LOOT! 6:30 the Most Famous Wolf in the World - Nate Blakeslee Win autographed books, pm original illustrations, Skype sessions with authors and more! 7-8 Tough Topics, Pulitzer Prizes: How pm Our Content and Its Coverage Have Changed Over the Years - Timothy Egan & Jacqui Banaszynski

37 SUNDAY, Sept. 23 McCrory Gardens FESTIVAL GUIDELINES Great Hall Please abide by the following guidelines to make this event enjoyable for all: no soliciting or distributing flyers, literature, etc., of any kind 10:30 Book Lovers' Brunch: The Many Faces and Functions at any festival venue without prior consent. No videotaping or tape am–12 of Fiction - Leif Enger, Patrick Hicks, Jess Lourey, recording. Turn cell phones and pagers off during presentations. The pm C.M. Wendelboe, Rose Ross Zediker - TICKET Festival of Books, its sponsors and venues are not responsible for lost REQUIRED ($25) or stolen items.

View changes to the schedule and other news at facebook.com/sdhumanities or at Stay Connected twitter.com/sdhumanities. Use #sdbookfest when commenting or to view others’ comments. EXHIBITORS’ HALL Located in the Community Life Center of the First United Methodist Church. Open Friday, 1–5 pm and Saturday, 9 am–4 pm AUTHORS Melissa Nelson, Ortonville, MN Center for Western Studies, Sioux Lilli Lea Aman, Sioux Falls mgnelsonwrites.com Falls, augie.edu/cws lillilea.com John Nemec, Midland Dakotafire Media, Frederick Kimberlee Ann Bastian, Winona, MN dakotafire.net Nirvana Pride, Huron kimberleebastian.wixsite.com/ shopnvme.com/book-store Mariah Press, Sioux Falls elementodysseys mariahpress.com Mitch Reed, Watertown Wanda Bastian, Winona, MN sites.google.com/site/ Red Dragonfly Press, Northfield, MN wjbastian.wixsite.com/julienbradley17 mitchellreedspeaker/ reddragonflypress.org Carol Blackford, Harrisburg Audrey Jo Rider, Henry SD Agricultural Heritage Museum Patricia A. Campbell, Enid, OK Press, Brookings Tom Roberts, Sioux Falls agmuseum.com Phyllis Cole-Dai, Brookings chssd.org/books phylliscoledai.com SD Historical Society Press, Pierre Bruce Roseland, Seneca sdhspress.com Olaf Danielson, Milbank Rachel Rust, Sioux Falls olafsbigyear.blogspot.com Spoon River Poetry Press/Ellis Press/ rachelrust.net Plains Press, Granite Falls, MN Alexa Giebink, Sioux Falls ellispress.com Ames Sheldon, Eden Prairie, MN alexagiebink.com amessheldon.com University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, George Gilland, Timber Lake NE, nebraskapress.unl.edu J. E. Terrall, Custer Nathan D. Gjovik, Rapid City Zandbroz Variety, Sioux Falls & Fargo, Gary Wietgrefe, Sioux Falls ND, zandbroz.com Kiersten Hall, Austin, MN relatingtoancients.com khallbooks.com Jason Lee Willis, Mapleton, MN ORGANIZATIONS Bio Health Education, Sioux Falls lurapublications.com Stacey Hanks, Sioux Falls biohealthedu.com snarkystoriesllc.com Ruby R. Wilson, Bruce D & M Design and Photo, Sioux Falls Diana Howard, Dakota Dunes rubyrwilson.wordpress.com thecottonwoodtree.com BOOKSELLERS & PUBLISHERS SD Public Broadcasting, sdpb.org Himanshu Kothari, Chicago, IL Alban Lake Publishing, Colo, IA albanlake.com SD State Poetry Society, Kathy Laugheed, Arcadia, IN sdpoetry.org kblaugheed.com Books 4 Kids Program, Hayti B4KProgram.org Lisa Lechowicz, Omaha, NE nativeamericanabc.com

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For their generous $35,693 support for the “Democracy and the Informed Citizen” Initiative, we thank the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Federation of State Humanities Councils and the Pulitzer Prizes Board.

“DEMOCRACY AND THE INFORMED CITIZEN” INITIATIVE $9,000+ SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY A FORMULA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY 501c3 INNOVATION ENDOWMENT $55,000+ FESTIVAL PRESENTING PARTNERS $20,000+ $10,000+

$50,000+ MATCH

YOUNG READERS 1:1 CHALLENGE MATCH $50,000+ $25,000+ $5,000+

SD COMMUNITY $5,000+ TRIBUTE SPONSORS FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT $20,000+ MATCH

Bob & Pat Fishback $10,000+ $2,000+ FESTIVAL & ENDOWMENT DONORS Gerry Berger Law Sanford Health | Tom & Sherry DeBoer* | Katie Hunhoff | Northern Hills Federal Credit Union (YR) $5,000+ Harriet Svec | Orval Van Deest | Judith & Mark Meierhenry | Washington Pavilion | Margaret Cash Wegner* Dan & Arlene Kirby (*indicates endowment, YR indicates Young Reader initiative) THANK YOU $1,000+ FESTIVAL & ENDOWMENT DONORS

(*indicates endowment, YR indicates Young Reader initiative) A special thanks to SAVE THE DATE: all of the donors and 17TH ANNUAL SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS volunteers who support OCTOBER 3–6, 2019 South Dakota Humanities DEADWOOD AND RAPID CITY Council programs.