October 4–6 Deadwood | sdbookfestival.com

CONTENTS 4 Mayor’s Welcome 6 SD Humanities Council Welcome 7 Event Locations and Parking 8 A Tribute to Children’s and Y.A. Literature Sponsored by Black Hills Reads, First Bank & Trust, Northern Hills Federal Credit Union and John T. Vucurevich Foundation 9 A Tribute to Fiction Sponsored by AWC Family Foundation and Larson Family Foundation 10 A Tribute to Poetry Sponsored by Brass Family Foundation 11 A Tribute to Non-Fiction Sponsored by Midco and South Dakota Public Broadcasting 12 A Tribute to Writers’ Support Sponsored by Sandra Brannan and South Dakota Arts Council 13 A Tribute to History and Tribal Writing Sponsored by Home Slice Media and City of Deadwood 14 Presenters 24 Schedule of Events 30 Exhibitors’ Hall

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410 E. Third St. • Yankton, SD 57078 800-456-5117 • www.SouthDakotaMagazine.com 3 WELCOME... HAVE THE PRIVILEGE as mayor of the city of Deadwood to welcome you to our community for the 17th annual South I Dakota Festival of Books. Since the inception of this event in 2003, Deadwood has hosted the Festival each odd- numbered year. The City of Deadwood, Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission and the Deadwood City Library are pleased to partner with the South Dakota Humanities Council to present this book festival. The list of presenters is both long and impressive. Book lovers will have an opportunity to listen to a diverse group of authors from around the country. There are many historical and cultural sites to visit throughout the city of Deadwood, including the Days of ’76 Museum, the Adams House, the Adams Museum, Mount Moriah Cemetery, the Broken Boot Gold Mine, the History and Information Center, the Welcome Center and our new Outlaw Square. We encourage you to visit each and every one. We look forward to having you join us for this exciting event and hope you get a chance to explore Deadwood, a National Historic Landmark. If there is anything I can do to make your visit more pleasant, please contact me.

Sincerely,

David R. Ruth, Jr., Mayor City of Deadwood

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ELCOME TO THE Festival of Books in Deadwood, a town rich with mythology and history. Recently, I heard someone saying on a radio show that all things “western” came Wthrough Deadwood. I suppose it was an overstatement, but I was intrigued that all the events associated with this town — Wild Bill Hickok, gambling and shootouts, Calamity Jane, broken treaties with the Native people, gold mining — make it the epicenter of the mythology of the American West. Deadwood is your center for reading and thinking during the festival. You’ll find presentations on everything from children’s picture books to James Beard award-winning cookbooks, biographies, mysteries, romances and war literature. You’ll meet poets (including our new state poet laureate), nonfiction authors, novelists, historians, first-time authors, seasoned authors and film producers. Browse and listen. Spend time with an author that you hadn’t planned on hearing — you might find a new favorite. Discover other books that the author has written or search for a similar book by another great author, and … on it goes. Share your discoveries with a friend, and the circle of reading will expand. I hope the festival gives you a unique opportunity to think about myths and truths and how reading connects us with ideas. Start your new reading list, just in time for winter reading. Thanks for being part of this year’s Festival. Enjoy Deadwood, and enjoy reading.

Ann Volin Executive Director South Dakota Humanities Council

Visit the Humanities Council booth in Exhibitors’ Hall to take part in our “I learned to read at …” program.

6 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS EVENT To Rapid City LOCATIONS

DEADWOOD A. DEADWOOD CITY HALL (108 Sherman St.) B. DEADWOOD MOUNTAIN GRAND (1906 Deadwood Mountain Dr.) • Event Center • Prospector Room • Conference Room • Bill‘s Backstage Bar

C. DEADWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY (435 Williams St.) • Downstairs • Main Floor

D. DEADWOOD VFW (10 Pine St.) E. FRANKLIN HOTEL (700 Main St.) • Emerald Room – 2nd floor

F. HIS & HERS ALE HOUSE & WINE BAR (696 Main St.)

G. HOMESTAKE ADAMS RESEARCH & CULTURAL CENTER (HARCC) (150 Sherman St.) • Mary Adams Lecture Hall – 2nd floor

H. MARTIN & MASON HOTEL (33 Deadwood St.) • 1898 Ballroom – 3rd floor

I. TATANKA – Story of the Bison (100 Tatanka Dr.)

LEAD – Take Hwy. 14A south to Lead. J. ALL IN ONE EVENT CENTER (501 W. Main St.) K. HISTORIC HOMESTAKE OPERA HOUSE (313 W. Main St.)

L. SANFORD LAB HOMESTAKE VISITOR CENTER (160 W. Main St.) L K RAPID CITY – Take Hwy. 14A north to I90 to Rapid City. M. MOUNT RUSHMORE SOCIETY (830 Main St.) N. RAPID CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY (610 Quincy St.)

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7 CHILDREN’S/Y.A.

ADVENTURES WITH PORTER A New Kind of Storyteller Porter is a little girl to whom HE 2019 YOUNG READERS South Dakota Historical Society Press most parents can relate; she sees One Book South Dakota fea- in 2014, complete with illustrations nothing wrong with collecting tures three of the most impor- from Montileaux and a Lakota transla- dirty handkerchiefs, chewed tant stories in the Lakota world: tion by Agnes Gay, the assistant archi- wads of bubble gum and rotting Tthe creation of the Lakota people, the vist at Oglala Lakota College in Kyle. banana peels. Porter is a hoarder, introduction of horse cul- He brought the finished and it’s up to young readers to ture and the origin of the version to White Plume. help her decide what stays and drum. They are told and “He looked at it,” Mon- what goes during the epic room illustrated by Donald F. tileaux says, “and he cleaning that takes place in Porter Montileaux, a writer, art- had to have a couple of the Hoarder and the Ransacked ist and member of the smokes. Finally he said, Room, the first in a series of 64 Oglala Sioux Tribe who ‘You know, maybe you books by writer and filmmaker lives in Rapid City. But are the one that’s sup- Sean Covel and illustrator bringing stories from the posed to do this. Sit Rebecca Swift. deeply revered tradition down. Let me tell you The Porter series began as of oral storytelling to the a story about muskrat a way to help children learn to pages of a colorful chil- and skunk.’ It was a count, but the direction changed dren’s book proved chal- really beautiful way of after a reading in a second-grade lenging. getting accepted by a traditional classroom in Sturgis. “It was the It began with a visit storyteller and crossing over students who suggested hiding to Alex White Plume, a that line to be a contemporary all of Porter’s items and making longtime mentor of Mon- author.” it a look-and-find,” says Covel, tileaux’s who lives in This year’s Young Readers who is perhaps best known Manderson, on the Pine One Book, Tatanka and Other for producing the iconic film Ridge Indian Reservation. Legends of the Lakota People, Napoleon Dynamite. “The world White Plume told Monti- is a collection of three books, all of the character really expanded. leaux the story of the horse, a tale fa- previously published by the South Da- Suddenly we could imagine all miliar to Montileaux but one that he kota Historical Society Press: Tatanka these different worlds where had never considered writing down and the Lakota People, Tasunka: A La- she would find all kinds of crazy until that moment. He worked on a kota Horse Legend, and Muskrat and things.” rough draft and shared it with White Skunk: A Lakota Drum Story. It marks Covel and Swift teamed with Plume, who told him, “This is really several firsts for the Young Readers Black Hills Reads to create a good, but storytellers’ stories are not program: first book by a South Dakota reading and family engagement to be written down and shared with author/artist, first written by a tribal program around the books. paper and pen.” member, first published by a South They distributed 2,500 books “Storytellers come into a camp, or Dakota press, first bilingual selec- to first-graders in the Black into a tipi a long time ago, and they sit tion and first to include an audiobook Hills in January and hope to down with another individual and talk form. “I was thrilled, first of all, at the provide more than 10,000 books and entertain the people of the tribe,” opportunity to be the summer read au- statewide this fall through an Montileaux says. “They take them to thor,” Montileaux says. “I think they added partnership with the a different place. The individual with may have thought that they wanted a South Dakota Statewide Family them makes the sounds of the birds, little more meat for children to chew Engagement Center. the animals, the brush. The storyteller on during the summertime,” he says of uses different voices for different char- the three-in-one book concept. acters, so they are entertainers.” The South Dakota Humanities Montileaux kept working and came Council is distributing more than back with a rewritten story with il- 10,000 copies of Tatanka and Other lustrations. Still, White Plume was Legends of the Lakota People to South uncertain. Finally, Tasunka: A Lakota Dakota children entering third grade Horse Legend was published by the this fall. 8 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS FICTION

IN THE MIRROR

White Earth Anishinaabe tribal member and author Marcie R. Rendon used to write in her head while doing dishes or ferrying her three children around, but she never thought of writing for a living until the counseling center where she worked closed in 1990. “I actually didn’t know that being a writer was a thing, as a Native person. I was supposed to grow up to be a social worker, a doctor, a nurse, be someone who would go back and help the people,” she says. Unpredictable Romance In her books, Rendon hopes to “create another EATHER GRAHAM has always at hand, even after what could mirror for Native people to made the bestseller lists of be considered a respectable corpus for see themselves as they exist both USA Today and the New two (or more!) hardworking authors. today.” Her mysteries —­ York Times, but it took some “There’s always something happening,” Murder on the Red River, time to reach that rarefied air. Graham she said in an interview with The Strand H which won the Pinckley Prize majored in theater arts at the University Magazine. “Something in the news, a for Debut Crime Fiction, and of South Florida, which led to modeling, new place, or a new experience at an old Girl Gone Missing — center bartending, commercials, bit parts in place.” on Cash Blackbear, a smart, movies, back-up singing and dinner the- Graham will add to her store of expe- resilient young Native woman ater. Her career as a prolific author didn’t riences on this trip to Deadwood. She scarred from her upbringing get off the ground until she added stay- and Sandra Brannan will dress in period in foster care. Blackbear leads at-home mom to that résumé — a role costumes and play roles in a shootout a simple life, driving truck for she took on after the birth of her third staged by the Deadwood Alive troupe. Red River Valley farmers and child. Heather and Dennis Graham, who Their characters will not have cause to playing pool in Fargo dives, were married right out of high school, carry guns, even fake ones, but they may until she starts to use the eventually welcomed five children into act out a heart-wrenching death scene. clues she finds in dreams and the world. Graham has received numerous hon- flashes of intuition to solve Written in the margins of daily life, ors for her work, including The Silver crimes with her guardian of Graham’s first book,When Next We Love, Bullet Award from International Thriller sorts, Sheriff Wheaton. “In came out in 1982. Her protagonist and Writers, two Reviewers’ Choice Awards a certain kind of way, it is antagonist, Leigh Tremayne and Derek from the Romantic Times, and the Nora everybody‘s story, every Native Mallory, were either going to kill each Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award person’s other or fall for each other, in classic from Romance Writers of America. That story,” romance novel fashion; since then, the success has provided the means for giv- Rendon author’s career trajectory has been no- ing back to the community. Each year says. “We where near that predictable. She has she hosts a Vampire Ball and Dinner all know written more than 200 novels and novel- Theater at the Romantic Times Book- someone las, including romantic suspense, histori- lovers Convention to raise money for the who was cal romance, vampire fiction, time travel, Pediatric Aids Society, and in the wake in foster occult and Christmas holiday fare, and of Hurricane Katrina in 2006, she hosted care.” has upwards of 75 million books in print. the first Writers for New Orleans Work- Grist for Graham’s creative mill is shop to benefit the stricken Gulf region.

9 POETRY

AUTHENTIC ANTHOLOGY Poetry for the People Ojibwe poet Heid Erdrich HRISTINE STEWART doesn’t year’s Festival to commemorate the poet knew the time was right want South Dakotans to be in- laureate transition. for a new anthology of timidated by poetry. That’s why Stewart describes her own work as writ- Native American poetry her top priority as the state’s ing at the intersection of experience and when she saw a social newC poet laureate is to edit an anthology research. “I’m always grounded in some- media post from a literary of poems about South Dakota and written thing that’s happened to me, or something critic asking for names of by South Dakotans. She hopes I’ve seen or something that I modern indigenous poets. to launch reading and writing have sensory knowledge of. The responses ranged workshops and to foster discus- And I can write a poem based from 19th-century figures sion, not only about our shared on just that. But there’s al- to known ethnic frauds. home but also about the genre ways something that takes me Erdrich says, “... we Native in general. outside of the realm of myself Americans writing poetry are “I’m surprised that there’s not that pushes me forward, and dangerously obscure and — more discussion and engage- that’s research,” Stewart says. worse again — obscured by ment with poetry at all levels of “It could be travel, reading poets who are not Native to society because poems are short, something, another writer. I any indigenous nation.” and we like short things,” says Stewart, use those sources to push my imagination For New Poets of who was appointed by Gov. Kristi Noem and my experience, and to re-see it, and Native Nations, Erdrich in May 2019 and began her four-year term add some nuance to it.” collected works by 21 on July 1. “We like tweets, and we like That approach is particularly evident in Native wordsmiths, all of sound bites. I think there are two chal- the poems of her two most recent books, whom published their first lenges. Usually, poetry is so distilled that written under the name Christine Stewart- books after the year 2000. it takes some time to ruminate over it. You Nunez. In Untrussed, an exercise in ekph- Contributors were also maybe have to read it a couple of times for rasis led to the melding of poetry and art asked to share their first it to be fully digested. Some people don’t as Stewart studied paintings in the South publishing experiences, the want to take that time. And I think poetry Dakota Art Museum in Brookings. “At names of their mentors and has a bad reputation, in some ways, that it some point, whatever thing I’m also ru- the names of Native poets has to be dissected and unpuzzled, that it’s minating on personally tends to start to they recommend, making not written for the everyday person, that commingle in that piece of art, and that the book a rich resource it’s written for other poets or artists, and piece of art starts to speak to my personal for anyone interested in it’s not meant to be consumed by the gen- experience.” contemporary American eral reader. I’d like to challenge that with Bluewords Greening, perhaps a more poetry. the anthology by highlighting accessible personal collection, deals with myriad Erdrich will be joined at poetry that doesn’t confound.” tragedies: the death of Stewart’s sister, the Festival by two authors Stewart is South Dakota’s seventh poet her son’s loss of language due to a rare featured in the anthology, laureate. The position was created in 1937 seizure disorder called Landau-Kleffner Anishinaabe poet Gordon with the appointment of Charles “Bad- Syndrome and her several miscarriages. Henry Jr. and Gwen ger” Clark. He served until his death in Stewart is a native of Des Moines, Iowa. Westerman, an enrolled 1957, and was followed by Adeline Jenny She holds a bachelor’s degree in English member of (1958-1973), Mabel Frederick (1973), education and writing from the Univer- the Sisseton Audrae Visser (1974-2001), David Allan sity of Northern Iowa. She taught for two Wahpeton Evans (2001-2015) and Lee Ann Rori- years at Tarsus American College in Tur- Dakota paugh (2015-2019). The South Dakota key, then earned a master’s in literature Oyate and Poetry Society recommended Stewart from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. citizen out of a pool of candidates that included in creative writing from the University of of the Mount Marty College professor Jim Re- Nebraska. Stewart joined the faculty at Cherokee ese and Augustana University professor South Dakota State University in 2007, Nation of and writer-in-residence Patrick Hicks as where she teaches creative writing and Oklahoma. finalists. Stewart, Reese, Hicks and Rori- directs the university’s creative writing paugh will participate in readings at this program. 10 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS NON-FICTION

LOVE AND HATE IN THE SOUND BITE ERA If you’ve ever debated politics on Facebook, you might have doubts about the efficacy of social media as a tool to change minds. But for Megan Phelps-Roper, engaging nonbelievers online was one of the factors that led her to quit one of the most hated fundamentalist groups in America, a process she describes in Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. A Journey of Understanding The granddaughter of former Westboro pastor Fred Phelps, INNESOTA AUTHOR Kent more respect and humility, by both Na- Phelps-Roper grew up on the Nerburn’s best-known book tive and non-Native alike, than almost church’s infamous picket lines. originated with a road trip. anywhere else.” “Not only did we firmly believe In the early 1990s, after In the 25 years since Neither Wolf in the truth and goodness of all he’dM helped high school students on Nor Dog was first published, Nerburn our message and methods — northern Minnesota’s Red Lake Indian has not seen much progress in the ways including what others wrote Reservation compile and publish two that Natives and non-Natives interact, off as ‘shock tactics’ — we also books of oral history, he got a phone but that may soon change. “In the con- recognized that we were living call from a South Dakota reservation. temporary climate of hyper-sensitivity in a sound-bite generation A Lakota elder had read the oral histo- to cultural slights, I think it is safe to ries and wanted to talk, but there was a say that as long as there is no ground- with endless demands on its catch — Nerburn would have to drive swell against the name of the Washing- attention,” she writes. out and speak to him in person. The ton Redskins, America still doesn’t get Challenging Twitter conversa- subsequent conversation became the it,” he says. However, he thinks that tions with people ranging from first step in a rambling, often roadless environmental and climate concerns an Orthodox Jew in Jerusalem journey around the plains, with two will lead mainstream America to value to the small-town South Dakota Native men and a rez dog instructing, indigenous voices, particularly their lawyer she would eventually teasing and provoking Nerburn into a beliefs about humans’ relationship with marry caused Phelps-Roper to greater understanding of Native Ameri- nature. “This is the long game — as a shift her views, though a shake- can beliefs and perspectives. Shoshone elder who was the teacher of up in the church itself was the Nerburn recounts this voyage in Nei- one of my Tlingit friends put it, ‘Do not ultimate force in her departure ther Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads begrudge the white man his presence from Westboro. She now teaches with an Indian Elder, the South Dakota on this land. Though he doesn’t know Humanities Council’s One Book South it yet, he came here to learn from us.’” others about how to communi- Dakota selection for 2019. It’s an apt A two-time Minnesota Book Award cate effectively across political and choice for South Dakota readers, as winner, Nerburn has published 14 religious divides, but Phelps-Roper Nerburn believes that our state holds books exploring spirituality or Na- still has sympathy an unusual position in this centuries- tive American culture, including two for those she left old clash of cultures. “The historical sequels to Neither Wolf Nor Dog. He behind. “I think encounter of the European and Native visited 15 South Dakota communities they’re good peoples remains so close to the surface on his One Book Author Tour in the people who have here,” he says. “If the land speaks, and summer of 2019 and blogged about been trapped by I believe it does, South Dakota is one of his experiences at sdhumanities.org/ bad ideas,” she the places where it speaks most clearly, nerburn-tour-2019. writes. and where it has been listened to with 11 Sandra L. Brannan WRITERS’ SUPPORT

CREATING CHARACTER New York Times bestselling au- thor Tosca Lee’s novels cover the span of human history with set- tings ranging from the Garden of Eden in her 2008 book, Ha- vah: The Story of Eve, to a barely pre-apocalyptic America in her most recent thriller, The Line Between. But no matter what time period Lee explores, one constant remains — her charac- ters’ actions are rooted in basic human nature. “As humans, we are very much the same,” Lee explains. “We all have fears, Veterans’ Voices hopes, dreams and regrets.” In her Festival workshop, RIAN TURNER has been, their military experiences or to help “Three Dimensional, Unfor- among other things, a DJ, an them to write about any one thing. I try gettable,” Lee will encourage English teacher and a pickler, to share thoughts and approaches that aspiring authors to delve within a bass guitar instructor and might help them to write their way into and access their own feelings. Ba soldier: he spent seven years in the the rest of their lives. “When you tap into the emo- Army, with deployments as an infan- “Stories, essays, poems — we use tions of those experiences in try team leader in Bosnia-Herzegovina these art forms as vehicles for medita- your own life — not what they and Iraq. tion. We use them to consider the pro- were, but what they ‘felt’ like — “As I look back now, I realize how found, the sublime, the incomprehen- you’re no longer making some- layered and complicated that decision sible. We use them to process memory thing up, but reminding your [to enlist] was,” Turner says. His latest and to imagine the future. Veterans reader of the emotions already book, My Life as a Foreign Country: A certainly have experiences worthy of within them,” she says. Memoir, explores that seminal decision being considered on the page, but they Lee is a member of The in depth, an effort that fellow veteran also have lives that are ongoing, with Traveling Pens, teaming with author Tim O’Brien called “a humane, events and experiences that are also Midwestern authors Kimberly heartbreaking, and expertly crafted worthy of reflection.” Stuart and Nicole Baart to share work of literature.” South Dakota State University Vet- the joys of writing and reading Since his discharge in 2005, Turner erans Affairs and the South Dakota at fun-filled events around the has carved out a writing career that Humanities Council co-sponsored region. “What I love about Kim arcs from poetry to essays, with a foot a veterans’ storytelling contest over and Nicole isn’t that they’re in both academia and the commercial the summer that culminates with an bestselling, award-winning publishing world. In addition to his awards ceremony during the Festival authors (which they are),” Lee individual poetry collections, Here, of Books. Participants submitted ei- says. “It’s Bullet and Phantom Noise, he has ap- ther a 3-5 minute video presentation the way peared in numerous anthologies as a or written stories of up to 1,500 words. they love contributor and editor. Every veteran who submitted a story people, Turner will lead a Festival workshop received a free ticket to Turner’s writ- God, and during which he will help veterans ing workshop; additionally, three final- the power write about their combat and service- ists in each category are invited to a of story to connected experiences. “For some reading/showing of their work during elevate and [veterans], writing can help them to the festival. Each category winner re- inspire us.” process and, perhaps, to reintegrate,” ceives a cash prize of $500, with $300 Turner says. “In workshop, I don’t fo- and $200 awarded for second and third, cus solely on getting them to write out respectively.

12 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING

The Real Wild Bill CROSS-CULTURAL COMEDY OM CLAVIN’S aim in his new grandiose stories. Tiffany Midge’s new book, Bury biography of Wild Bill Hickok is An interesting revelation in Clavin’s My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s, to find the true story of the man book is that by the early 1870s, Hickok showcases the darkly funny who famously met his demise at began having trouble with his eyesight. A “rez humor” the Standing the hands of assassin Jack Kansas City doctor told him T Rock Sioux tribal citizen McCall inside Deadwood’s that he would eventually go inherited from her family — Saloon No. 10. As Clavin blind. Whatever the malady particularly her mother. “I don’t acknowledges in the very was, it may have played a want to mischaracterize her, first pages, Hickok is large- part in his death. Perhaps because she was very kind, ly remembered through the he didn’t recognize McCall, but sometimes she’d laugh at legends that overshadowed whom Hickok had angered the most pathetic or solemn him. But the man read- during a poker game the situations,” Midge says. “And ers meet in Wild Bill: The night before, when McCall it was the absolute best.” True Story of the American entered the saloon on Aug. Midge’s specialty is smart, Frontier’s First Gunfighter McIntyre Kaye 2, 1876, and sneaked behind satirical essays with a political is much more than a vaga- him. “It was the only way to bent — though mainstream bond with a quick trigger finger. kill Wild Bill, really,” Clavin says. “His- audiences have been known Wild Bill is Clavin’s third foray into tory had shown that you couldn’t confront to miss the joke sometimes. Western history, following The Heart him and outdraw or outshoot him. Given Her 2016 story about a of Everything That Is (with Bob Drury) that he was the undisputed, undefeated throng of jingle dress-clad and Dodge City. Clavin says a study of heavyweight champion of gunfighters, dancers materializing at Hickok came naturally after his work on the only way you could have gotten him the Dakota Access Pipeline Dodge City and its equally legendary was a sucker punch from behind.” protests received hundreds characters Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Clavin pored through contemporary of comments on social media “Most people are aware that Wild Bill is sources — newspapers, letters, recollec- — many of them serious. “It some kind of a mythical figure of the tions by those who knew Wild Bill — to wasn’t really that difficult to West and know him as a gunfighter. But find these anecdotes. He also credits Jo- figure out that it was parody, I didn’t really know too much else about seph Rosa, an Englishman who became but there was so much about him,” he says. “I think that was an advan- infatuated with Wild Bill in the 1950s. Standing Rock at that time that tage, because when I started researching, Rosa made several research trips to seemed just so monumental, I discovered there were so many more America, seeking out Hickok’s surviving so epic, that suspending aspects to the guy. He packed several dif- family members. “He did a lot of really disbelief about thousands ferent lives into a relatively short one of solid research. The only reliable biogra- of dancers manifesting if by 39 years. It was such a revelation to me phy that had been done about Hickok was magic seemed like a credible to find out that he was more of a complex Rosa’s book in 1964, and nothing since event,” Midge says. “Even a and real person than I had anticipated. It then.” reporter was just one surprise after another.” Now, 55 years later, Clavin will dis- from the Take, for instance, his time as a Civil cuss his own 294-page biography of Wild New York War spy. Hickok often donned Confed- Bill just blocks from where the legendary Times who erate gray and infiltrated rebel lines to gunfighter died. “It’s going to feel like an contacted gain intelligence for Union forces. His honor,” he says. “He’s buried there, and I me was reputation as a lawman in Hays City and tried as hard as I could to capture the real unaware Abilene in Kansas both fed the Hickok Wild Bill Hickok, warts and all, and what that it was myth and instilled legitimate fear in out- a fascinating person he was.” a parody.” laws. He was indeed a quick and accurate shot, and many a gunslinger bent on vio- lence was carried out of town, but jour- Experience true culinary artistry and learn about the revitalization of lo- nalists from the East greatly exaggerated cal indigenous cuisine at Sunday‘s closing luncheon with Sean Sherman Hickok’s exploits. Eventually, Hickok of The Sioux Chef. Purchase tickets at www.sdbookfestival.com! himself repeated and even added to the

13 PRESENTERS CHRISTINA M. ABT is a has co-edited two books explaining mili- JOSEPH BOTTUM writes everything from newspaper columnist, ra- tary conflict through pop culture – Strategy reviews and short stories to obituaries in dio broadcaster and author Strikes Back and Winning Westeros. The Times of London and sports essays in of four books, including the Amazon’s Kindle Singles series. His books historical novel Beauty & STEPHANIE ANDERSON holds a B.A. include the sociological study An Anxious Grace. Her media projects from Augustana University Age and Christopher Award-winning chil- include “64 and More,” for in Sioux Falls and an M.F.A. dren’s verse. A South Dakota native, Bottum which she traveled America filming the sto- from Florida Atlantic Uni- holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and directs the ries of people like Broadway legend Tommy versity, where she teaches Classics Institute at Dakota State University. Tune and NBC Sports commentator Donna English. A South Dakota na- Barton Brothers. An invited journalist on the tive, Anderson often writes SANDRA BRANNAN sets some of her Liv First Amendment Rights Panel at the Wom- about the prairie and rural Bergen mysteries in the Black Hills, where en’s Rights National Historic Park in Seneca life. Her debut book, One Size Fits None: A she lives with her husband, Falls, New York in 2017, Abt is collaborating Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regen- Joel. Her books have been with the Women’s Hall of Fame Board on a erative Agriculture, was released in January. called “unputdownable” Beauty & Grace presentation/fundraiser. by the Red-Headed Blogger NICOLE BAART is the mother of five chil- and “good and scary” by Li- JOHN AMBLE is the editorial director at the dren from four different countries. The co- brary Journal. Brannan en- Modern War Institute at West Point and co- founder of a non-profit organization, One joys working with relatives director of the Urban Warfare Project. He is Body One Hope, she lives in a small town in the mining business, smiling with pride also a military intelligence officer in the U.S. in Iowa. She is also the author of nine criti- over the journeys of her four sons and dot- Army Reserve and a veteran of both Iraq cally acclaimed novels, including the recent ing on her three grandchildren. and Afghanistan. Amble has served as man- You Were Always Mine. Her books have aging editor at War on the Rocks, a digital been featured in Southern Living, Country SHONDA BUCHANAN is a poet, educator media outlet for commentary on global Woman, Book Page and Glam, and on Ya- and, with the recent publication of Black security, foreign affairs and strategy, and hoo Lifestyle. Indian, a memoirist. She is the daughter of Mixed Bloods, the product of tri-racial

14 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS PRESENTERS and tri-ethnic African American, American Wall Street Journal and USA Today, and he RICHMOND L. CLOW is professor Indian and European-descendant families has edited and contributed to two books emeritus of Native American studies at who migrated from North Carolina and explaining military conflict through the lens the University of Montana in Missoula. A Virginia to Southwestern Michigan. For the of pop culture – Strategy Strikes Back and graduate of the University of South Dakota, last 18 years, Buchanan has taught creative Winning Westeros. he received his doctorate in writing, composition and critical theory at history from the University Loyola Marymount University, Hampton ANN CHARLES writes mysteries splashed of New Mexico. Clow has University and William & Mary College. with humor, romance and the paranormal. written extensively about A member of Romance the American Indians of the ROBIN CARMODY was born and raised Writers of America and Northern Great Plains and in Dorchester, Massachusetts, but left her Sisters in Crime, she the history of the Black Hills. heart in the Black Hills on has a B.A. in English He is the author of seven books, a longtime a 1994 trip to attend a his- with an emphasis on contributor to South Dakota History and a tory conference. She now creative writing from the recipient of the Robinson Award from the happily resides in Dead- University of Washington. South Dakota State Historical Society. wood, the setting for her When Charles is not holed up in her writing first book, But Nana, Who lair, she hangs out with family and basks in ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN is profes- Was Wild Bill? Carmody the Arizona sunshine. sor emerita of English and Native stud- holds both a Class A CDL and a master’s in ies at Eastern Washington University. She early childhood education. TOM CLAVIN was a New York Times received the 2007 Lifetime Achievement reporter for 15 years and a weekly Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of Lieutenant Colonel ML CAVANAUGH is a newspaper editor for 12 years. Four of his the Americas and won the Gustavus My- nonresident fellow at the Modern War In- books have been New York Times best ers Center Award for the Study of Human stitute at West Point and a U.S. Army strat- sellers: Dodge City, The Heart of Everything Rights in North America. She is the author egist with experience in 11 countries and That Is, Halsey’s Typhoon and The Last Stand of several books, including her 2018 mem- assignments ranging from the Pentagon to of Fox Company. His latest tells the true oir, In Defense of Loose Translations. Iraq and Korea to New Zealand. His writing story of Wild Bill Hickok. Clavin lives in Sag has appeared in the Washington Post, the Harbor, New York. SEAN COVEL is a film and television

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producer who grew up in the Black Hills. the Future, places into historical context the His films, including the iconic Napoleon Indigenous-led movement to stop the Da- Dynamite, have won multiple awards and kota Access Pipeline. generated over a quarter of a billion dollars. With fellow South Dakota native JOSH GARRETT- South Dakotan Rebecca DAVIS is the Gamble Associate Curator of Swift, he has launched a Western History, Popular Culture and Fire- 64-book series for children. arms at the Autry Museum of the Ameri- The first title, Porter the can West in Los Angeles and a Ph.D. can- Hoarder and the Ransacked didate in U.S. history at Princeton University. Room, is being given to thousands of His work includes the new book What Is elementary students statewide. Covel a Western?, the memoir lectures internationally, but he hangs his Ghost Dances, the anthol- nunchucks in Deadwood. ogy This Road Leads to Nowhere: Pierre Punk and Raised on the Rosebud Reservation, the Emmy-winning docu- VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK SNEVE has mentary Tending the Wild, published 27 books for all ages, as well as about Indigenous ecologi- numerous short stories, articles and poems. cal knowledge in California. He lives with A retired K-12 and college educator, she his wife and daughter in a small, sunny received the National Humanities Medal in apartment full of books. 2000. Driving Hawk Sneve’s recent work includes Sioux Women: Traditionally Sacred HEATHER GRAHAM, a New York Times and a reissue of her children’s classic, The and USA Today bestseller, spent several Christmas Coat. years in dinner theater, back-up singing and bartending before deciding to stay home CHRIS ENSS has profiled famous frontier with her children and write. Since then, figures as well as ordinary schoolmarms, she has published more than 200 novels gold miners, madams and and novellas, including category, suspense, mail-order brides. Her 2017 historical romance, vampire fiction, time book The Pinks tells the travel, occult and Christmas family fare. stories of the first women to work for the Pinkerton JEROME A. GREENE is a retired historian, Detective Agency. Enss curator and manager with the National Park has earned a Will Rogers Service and author of 23 books, plus articles, Medallion, a Spirit of the West Alive Award reviews and government history reports. A and the Nevada County Historical Society’s U.S. Army veteran and a graduate of Black Citizen of the Year Award. Hills State University and the University of South Dakota, he taught American Indian HEID E. ERDRICH is an Ojibwe poet, writer history at Haskell Indian Nations University. and filmmaker. She has written five books His latest book is January Moon: The North- of poetry, as well as the ern Cheyenne Breakout from Fort Robinson, cookbook/essay collection 1878-1879. Original Local. Erdrich is the editor of New Poets of Na- PAUL L. HEDREN retired from the tive Nations, featuring re- National Park Service in 2007 after nearly cent work from 21 poets four decades as a park historian and of diverse ages, styles, lan- superintendent. A native Minnesotan and guages and tribal affiliations. She lives in lifelong student of the Old Army and Indian Minnesota with her husband, children and wars of the American West, he researches a feisty Jack Russell terrier. and writes on the Great Sioux War of 1876- 77, sometimes called the Black Hills War. His NICK ESTES, Kul Wicasa and a citizen of 12th and most recent book is Rosebud, June the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, is an assistant 17, 1876: Prelude to the Little Big Horn. professor of American Studies at the Univer- sity of New Mexico. In 2014, he co-founded ALEXANDER B. HEFFNER, host of The The Red Nation, an Indigenous resistance Open Mind on PBS, has covered Ameri- organization. His first book, Our History Is can politics, civic life and millennials since 16 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS With 82 majors, 94 minors and world-class faculty, South Dakota State University is the state’s largest, most comprehensive higher-education institution. In fact, The New York Times recently listed State as one of the top-performing institutions for exceeding expected six-year graduation rates. But we’re more than just your education.

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2008. His writing has ap- Nation, professor of English at Michigan Higbee holds degrees from Black Hills State peared in The Wall Street State, Gordon Russell Visiting Professor at University and the University of Notre Dame. Journal, The Washington Dartmouth College and senior editor of the He and his wife, Janet, live in Spearfish. Post and Newsday, and American Indian Studies Series at Michigan he has been interviewed State University Press. He co-founded the BETTY JO HUFF has lived by several national and lo- Native American Youth Film Institute and In- in South Dakota since high cal broadcast venues. Hef- digistory, a digital storytelling organization school and has attended fner’s book, A Documentary History of the dedicated to collaboration with tribal com- many writing conferenc- United States, is an annotated collection of munities. Henry won an American Book es in the Black Hills. These the documents, speeches and letters that Award for his novel The Light People. experiences, along with have forged America. encouraging teachers, led PATRICK HICKS has written nearly a her to pursue her passion for storytelling. SARA HENNING is the author of two vol- dozen books, including poetry and essay For several years, she also taught preschool, umes of poetry, most recently View from collections and a novel, The Commandant which provided the inspiration for her new True North, which won the 2017 Crab Or- of Lubizec. He was recently a finalist for an book, But Nana, Who Was Wild Bill? chard Poetry Open Prize. She has earned Emmy, and he hosts Poetry from Studio the 2015 Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial 47 on South Dakota Public Radio. Hicks is CRAIG JOHNSON is the New York Times Poetry Prize and a Tennes- Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University bestselling author of 14 full-length novels see Williams Scholarship to and a faculty member at the M.F.A. and three short stories featuring Sheriff Walt the 2019 Sewanee Writ- program at Sierra Nevada College. His latest Longmire. His books have won the Western ers‘ Conference. Henning book is Library of the Mind: New & Selected Writers of America’s Spur Award, the Will teaches writing at Stephen Poems. Rogers Medallion Award for fiction and F. Austin State University the Wyoming Historical Association’s Book and serves as poetry editor PAUL HIGBEE may be best known as of the Year award. The books also inspired for the University Press. a South Dakota Magazine feature writer the Netflix series Longmire. Johnson and and columnist. His most recent book, The his wife live in Ucross, Wyoming, popula- GORDON HENRY JR. is an enrolled mem- First Strike, explores the life and World War tion 25. ber of Minnesota’s White Earth Anishinaabe II heroics of Doolittle Raider Don Smith.

18 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS A Professor of history at Minnesota State A graduate of Hamline University’s M.F.A. University, Mankato, LORI program in Writing for Children and Young ANN LAHLUM teaches Adults, TRACY NELSON MAURER has courses on the American written more than 100 books for children, West, environmental history, including the recent picture-book biogra- Minnesota history, western phies and Junior Library Guild women’s history and poli- Selections Samuel Morse, tical history in the northern grasslands. That’s Who! and John Deere, She co-edited the forthcoming Equality That‘s Who! Maurer lives at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on near Minneapolis. the Northern Great Plains and 2011’s Norwegian American Women: Migration, TIFFANY MIDGE is a citizen of the Communities, and Identities. Lahlum grew Standing Rock Sioux Tribe raised in the up on a farm in Griswold, North Dakota. Pacific Northwest. Her books include The Woman Who Married a Bear, winner of the TOSCA LEE is the author Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indige- of 10 novels, including The nous Poetry and a Western Heritage Award, Progeny, Firstborn, The Leg- and Outlaws, Renegades and Saints: Diary end of Sheba, Iscariot and, of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed, winner of the Di- with fellow NYT bestseller ane Decorah Memorial Poetry Award. Her Ted Dekker, the Books of Mortals series. Her latest, Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s, work has been translated into 17 languag- combines humor and memoir. es and been optioned for TV and film. Lee loves movies, playing football with her kids JILL MOMADAY is a mother, actor, writer and sending cheesy texts to her husband. and filmmaker whose film,Return to Rainy A Single Light, the highly-anticipated sequel Mountain, documents her to her thriller The Line Between, releases in Kiowa heritage and life in September. the arts as the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning MELISSA LENHARDT is the author of author N. Scott Momaday. the Jack McBride mystery series and the She is also family advisor and Sawbones historical fiction archivist for the forthcoming PBS American series. Her mystery debut, Masters episode featuring her father. Her Stillwater, was a finalist for film credits include Tony Hillerman’sCoyote the 2014 Whidbey Writers’ Waits and Silent Tongue, written and M.F.A. Alumni Emerging directed by Sam Shepard. Writers Contest, and her historical fiction debut, Sawbones, was hailed by Lone Star Oglala Lakota Nation member DONALD F. Literary Life as a “thoroughly original, smart MONTILEAUX is a master ledger artist and and satisfying hybrid, perhaps a new sub- storyteller. Following in the footsteps of his genre: the feminist Western.” Her sixth forefathers, as well as mentors Oscar Howe novel, Heresy, tells the story of the first and Herman Red Elk, he creates books with and only all-female band of outlaws in the striking images that capture the Lakota American West. way of life. Three of his children’s books in English and Lakota were bound into a sin- BILL MARKLEY is writing a series of books gle volume to form Tatanka & Other Leg- comparing Old West characters, beginning ends of the Lakota People, the 2019 Young with Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson: Readers One Book South Dakota. Lawmen of the Legendary West. He has published three nonfiction books, including KENT NERBURN is the author of 14 Old West Showdown, and a historical books, including Letters to My Son, Chief novel, Deadwood Dead Men. Markley Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce and, participated in the films Dances With most recently, Dancing with the Gods. His Wolves, Son of the Morning Star, Far and book Neither Wolf nor Dog was made into Away, Gettysburg and Crazy Horse. He and a feature film in 2016 and chosen as the his wife live in Pierre. One Book South Dakota for 2019. Nerburn and his wife live in Portland, Oregon.

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R. ELI PAUL is the editor of and a contrib- After spending time all along the East Coast, City High School. She utor to 2019’s The Frontier Army: Episodes he met his wife, Rachel. She soon accepted holds a master’s degree from Dakota and the West. After four de- a position with Deadwood History, Inc., and in counseling and human cades in public history, he retired as head the two took up residence in Lead. Portal resource development of the Missouri Valley Special Collections works as a reporter for the Black Hills Pio- from South Dakota State at the Kansas City Public Library. Paul holds neer and recently illustrated his first chil- University and was inspired degrees from the University of Missouri and dren’s book, But Nana, Who Was Wild Bill? to write her first children’s George Washington University and writes book, Pet’a Shows Misun the Light, while extensively on Plains Indian history. JIM REESE is director of the Great Plains working as a school counselor. Writers’ Tour and associate professor of MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER is a writer English at Yankton’s Mount Marty College. MARCIE RENDON is a citizen of the and activist. Formerly a member of the His poetry and prose have been widely pub- White Earth Nation. Her novel Girl Gone Westboro Baptist Church, she left in lished, and he has read at venues from the Missing is the second in the November 2012, a process Library of Congress to San Quentin Prison. Cash Blackbear series. The she examines in her book, Reese’s honors include First Place in the first, Murder on the Red Unfollow: A Memoir of 2018 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards and River, received the Pinckley Loving and Leaving the a Distinguished Public Service Award for Women’s Debut Crime Westboro Baptist Church. his contributions to the Education Depart- Novel Award. Rendon has An educator on overcoming ment at Federal Prison Camp Yankton. He published two children’s ideological extremism and is a contractual education instructor for the books, Pow Wow Summer and Farmer’s improving communication across religious South Dakota Department of Corrections Market, and four plays. As the producer and political divides, Phelps-Roper lives in Writing for Reentry Program. behind Raving Native Theater, she curates South Dakota with her husband, Chad, and community-created performances like Art daughter, Sølvi. JESSIE TAKEN ALIVE RENCOUNTRE is a Is…CreativeNativeResilience, which aired Hunkpapa Lakota from the Standing Rock on Twin Cities Public Television in June. ALEX PORTAL was born in Pennsylvania Sioux Tribe who teaches the JAG (Jobs for and grew up dreaming of the Wild West. America’s Graduates) program at Rapid LEE ANN RORIPAUGH is the author of

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20 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS five volumes of poetry, most recently tsu- Grown, a history of sense JON D. SCHAFF is professor of political nami vs. the fukushima 50. She served as of place and regional iden- science at Northern State University in South Dakota Poet Laureate from 2015- tity on the Northern Great Aberdeen. He writes about topics from 2019. Roripaugh won the Association of Plains. As associate professor campaign finance reform to the political Asian American Studies Book Award in Po- and Ronald R. Nelson Chair thought of Alexis de Tocqueville as etry/Prose in 2004 and the National Poetry of Great Plains and South exemplified in the writing of Willa Cather. Series in 1998. She is a professor of English Dakota History at the University of South Schaff is a regular contributor to South at the University of South Dakota, where Dakota, she teaches general U.S. history, Dakota Public Radio’s “Political Junkies” she serves as Director of Creative Writing as well as specialized courses on South Da- segment, and in 2018 he presented at and Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review. kota, the Great Plains, the American West Rapid City TEDx on “Why American Politics and modern women’s movements. Rozum Is so Screwed Up.” His first book,Abraham BRUCE ROSELAND is the president of grew up in Mitchell. Lincoln’s Statesmanship and the Limits of the South Dakota State Poetry Society Liberal Democracy, came out in July. and a fourth-generation cattleman in HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN is an on-air in- north central South Dakota. His formal vestigative reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV, SEAN SHERMAN, Oglala Lakota, is a education ended when he earned an winning 34 Emmys and doz- leader in the movement to revitalize indig- M.A. in sociology from the University of ens more journalism honors. enous foods for a modern culinary context. North Dakota and decided to return to The author of 11 mysteries, In the Twin Cities, he found- the land. He has published six volumes of Ryan is also an award win- ed The Sioux Chef, opened poetry, most recently Cowman, and has ner in her second profession the Tatanka Truck and estab- won honors including a National Cowboy — with five Agathas, three lished the non-profit North and Western Heritage Museum Wrangler Anthonys, two Macavitys, the Daphne and American Traditional Indige- Award and a Will Rogers Medallion Award. the Mary Higgins Clark Award. Ryan’s most nous Food Systems (NATIFS). recent novel, Trust Me, was named a Best Sherman’s book, The Sioux Chef’s Indige- MOLLY P. ROZUM is co-editor of Equality Thriller of 2018 by the New York Post. Her nous Kitchen, earned a 2018 James Beard at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the next thriller, The Murder List, appeared in Award and was named a top 10 cookbook Northern Plains and author of Grasslands August. of 2017 by the Los Angeles Times.

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TRACI SORELL writes fiction, nonfiction ter the Hoarder and the Ransacked Room, and poetry for children. Her story in verse, is being given to thousands of elementary At the Mountain’s Base, students statewide. Swift lives in Bridgewa- celebrates history-making ter with her three children. female pilots. Her bilin- gual picture book, We Are CRAIG TSCHETTER enlisted in the U.S. Grateful: Otsaliheliga, won Marine Corps at 18, served 20 months as the 2019 Sibert Medal and a combat radio operator in Vietnam and Orbis Pictus Honor Awards, among others. completed his military service Sorell is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation as a drill instructor in San Di- and lives in northeastern Oklahoma. ego. After his honorable dis- charge, he returned to South CHRISTINE STEWART is the author of Dakota to earn a degree in books including 2016’s Untrussed and mortuary science, launch a Bluewords Greening, which won a 2018 30-year career in the funeral service indus- Whirling Prize in Poetry for writing on try and start a family. He lives in Brookings the theme of disabilities. Her awards for with Della, his wife of 47 years. creative nonfiction include “An Archeology of Secrets,” which was a Notable Essay in BRIAN TURNER served seven years in Best American Essays 2012. Stewart is a the U.S. Army. He has published two professor in the English Department at poetry collections — Phantom Noise and South Dakota State University and was Here, Bullet — and a memoir, My Life as a recently named the South Dakota Poet Foreign Country. He also edited the 2018 Laureate (2019-2023). anthology The Kiss and was featured in the documentary Operation Homecoming: J. RYAN STRADAL is the Writing the Wartime Experience. He directs author of the New York the M.F.A. program at Sierra Nevada Times bestseller Kitchens of College and serves as contributing editor at the Great Midwest, the 2017 The Normal School. One Book South Dakota. His latest novel, The Lager CARSON VAUGHAN is a freelance Queen of Minnesota, is full of humor, heart journalist from Nebraska and the secrets of making world-class beer. who writes frequently about A Minnesota native, Stradal lives in Los the Great Plains. His work Angeles, where he is fiction editor at The has appeared in the New Nervous Breakdown and co-producer and Yorker, The New York Times, host of the literary/culinary series Hot Dish. The Guardian, The Paris Review Daily and more. Zoo Nebraska: The KIMBERLY STUART grew up in Des Dismantling of an American Dream is his Moines, Iowa, and earned degrees at St. first book. Olaf College and the University of Iowa. Driven by a passion for chemistry-driven, SALLY ROESCH WAGNER is founder character-rich romance that requires a and executive director of the Matilda reader neither to leave her brain at the door Joslyn Gage Center for nor to visit a confessional after turning the Social Justice Dialogue in last page, Stuart has written eight novels, Fayetteville, New York. She most recently Heart Land. earned one of the nation’s first doctorates in women’s REBECCA SWIFT is a social media director, studies, founded one of makeup artist and illustrator. She sang her the first college-level women’s studies way through Hollywood Week on Ameri- programs and has taught women’s studies can Idol, worked as a movie makeup artist for 50 years. Wagner wrote the faculty and used makeup to transform herself into guide to Not for Ourselves Alone, Ken dozens of celebrities, leading to an appear- Burns’ documentary on Elizabeth Cady ance on Caught on Camera with Nick Can- Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Her most non. With Sean Covel, she has launched a recent book is the intersectional anthology 64-book series for children. The first, Por- The Women’s Suffrage Movement.

22 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS GWEN WESTERMAN holds a Ph.D. in NORMA C. WILSON published her first 1970s, but only upon retiring after 35 years English and teaches at Minnesota State Uni- poems in the 1970s as a student at the as a U.S. Navy captain did he publish work versity, Mankato. Wester- University of Oklahoma. Upon completing inspired by his military ex- man co-wrote the Minne- a Ph.D. in English there, she taught at the periences. His debut collec- sota Book Award-winning University of South Dakota for 27 years. tion, Dog Watches, includes MniSota Makoce: The Land Frog Creek Road, Wilson’s latest book, works published in journals of the Dakota with Bruce chronicles 35 years with family, friends and like The Indiana Review and White and published a Da- the flora and fauna surrounding the prairie Kenyon Review. Yngve, who kota and English poetry collection, Follow bluff home where she lives with her writer holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Warren Wil- the Blackbirds. Her work, including quilts husband, Jerry. son College, lives on and in the waters of and other art, is inspired by her Dakota fam- Coronado, California, with his wife, also a ily history. STEVEN WINGATE is a multi-genre retired U.S. Navy captain. author whose work ranges from poetry to JERRY WILSON lives with his poet wife, gaming. His books include the 2019 novel ERIC STEVEN ZIMMER is a senior histo- Norma, in a geo-solar home on 150 acres Of Fathers and Fire and the short story rian at Vantage Point Historical Services in of Missouri River bluff near Vermillion. A collection Wifeshopping. Rapid City and a research retired teacher and managing editor of His digital works include fellow at the Center for South Dakota Magazine, he spends his days the interactive memoir American Indian Research reading; writing; restoring, managing and daddylabyrinth and the and Native Studies on the enjoying the native prairie and woods; and interactive romance novel Pine Ridge Reservation. His working for sustainability. Wilson’s work Love at Elevation. Wingate new book is The Question has encompassed historical fiction, short is an associate professor of English at South is “Why?” Stanford M. Adelstein: A Jewish stories, environmental memoirs and a socio- Dakota State University and associate editor Life in South Dakota. Zimmer’s work has ap- historical travel book. In his new novel, Eden at Fiction Writers Review. peared in a variety of regional and nation- to Orizaba, two journeys intersect at an al publications, and his Ph.D. dissertation immigration checkpoint north of the U.S.- ROLF YNGVE has written short fiction fo- won the 2017 Rachel Carson Prize from the Mexico border. cused on his Midwest upbringing since the American Society for Environmental History.

23 YOUNG READERS FESTIVAL For general inquiries about the Young Readers Festival, call Jennifer Widman, Direc- tor of the South Dakota Center for the Book, (605) 688-5715.

The South Dakota Humanities Council will YA authors and illustrators will also speak give away more than 10,000 copies of the to students and fans of all ages in Rapid 2019 Young Readers One Book, Tatanka City Oct. 3 and the Deadwood area Oct. and Other Legends of the Lakota People 4-6, 2019. SDHC’s collaborators — Black by Donald F. Montileaux, to students across Hills Reads, First Bank & Trust, Northern the state. At the Young Readers Festival, Hills Federal Credit Union, Rapid City Area Montileaux will discuss his work with third- Schools and John T. Vucurevich Foundation graders who received the book. — are helping provide books, student Montileaux and other children’s and resources and author presentations.

KEY: CHILDREN’S/Y.A. | FICTION | HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING NON-FICTION | POETRY | WRITERS’ SUPPORT | SPECIAL EVENT WEDNESDAY, Oct. 2 Mount Rushmore Society Rapid City 5:30-9 Women Behaving Badly: Enjoy appetizers, a cash bar, live music, a silent auc- pm tion & presentations by Heather Graham, Chris Enss & Melissa Lenhardt. *May include adult content.* - TICKET REQUIRED ($15 online through Sept. 1, $20 online through Oct. 2, $25 at the door) THURSDAY, Oct. 3 Sanford Lab Homestake Rapid City Visitor Center Public Library Lead Rapid City 11:30- Samuel Morse, That‘s Who! - Tracy 12:15 pm NOTE: Young Nelson Maurer Readers authors and illustrators 12:30-1:15 Pow Wow Summer - Marcie will visit schools Rendon pm in Rapid City all 1:30-2:15 day Thursday. But Nana … Who Was Wild Bill? pm - Robyn Carmody, Betty Jo Huff & Alex Portal 2:30-3:15 Porter the Hoarder - Sean Covel & pm Rebecca Swift 4:30-5:30 Tatanka & Other Legends: Creating pm the 2019 Young Readers One Book - Donald F. Montileaux 7-8:30 pm Festival Fundraiser & Author Recep- tion - TICKET REQUIRED ($50)

Times and presenters subject to change. Check Festival Updates Bulletin (available at Ex- hibitors’ Hall information booth or online at www.sdbookfestival.com) for updates. Visit www.sdbookfestival.com to purchase tickets for special events and workshops.

24 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS 25 FRIDAY, Oct. 4 KEY: CHILDREN’S/Y.A. | FICTION | HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING | NON-FICTION | POETRY | WRITERS’ SUPPORT | SPECIAL EVENT His & Hers Deadwood Mountain Grand Deadwood VFW Deadwood Public Library Franklin Martin & Mason Hotel Tatanka: LEAD Ale House & Wine Hotel Story of the Event Center Prospector Room Conference Room Bill’s Main Floor Downstairs 1898 Ballroom Bison Historic Bar Back- Emerald Homestake stage Bar Room Opera House 10-11:45 (Workshop) - Say (Workshop) - Pub- SDPB Live (Workshop) - Three- (Workshop) - (Workshop) 10-11:15 - am What? Dialogue, lishing Your Novel: Broadcast Dimensional, Unfor- Make Your Prose - Sonic Revolu- Virginia Driving Taglines and Narrative Start to Finish, from - In the gettable: Creating Sparkle - Nicole tion: Develop- Hawk Sneve 10:30-11:15 - Voice - Patrick Hicks an Independent and Moment Character - Tosca Lee Baart - TICKET ing Your Poet‘s Author Talk & Tatanka & Other - TICKET REQUIRED a Traditional Perspec- Book Club - TICKET REQUIRED REQUIRED ($20) Ear - Christine Tatanka Tour Legends - Donald ($20) tive - Ann Charles with host ($20) Stewart F. Montileaux & Kimberly Stuart Lori Walsh - TICKET speaks to third- - TICKET REQUIRED & Festival REQUIRED graders (general ($20) Authors ($20) 11:30-12:45 public welcome) - Nick Estes 12 pm 12-12:15 - Deadwood Alive presents “Showdown at High Noon,” a shootout featuring 12:30-1:15 - Using Author Talk & 12:30-1:15 - Heather Graham & Sandra Brannan (OUTSIDE THE DEADWOOD MOUNTAIN GRAND) Fiction to Illumi- Tatanka Tour Tatanka & Other nate Fact: “Efen- Legends - Donald dim” & the Rescue F. Montileaux EXHIBITORS’ HALL OPENS 1 pm of Captain Phillips speaks to third- - Rolf Yngve graders (general public welcome)

1-1:45 pm Writing Romance, Think- Adisokan: Older Crossing the Rio 1:30-3:15 (Work- Finding Your Writer‘s The Opportunities 1-2:15 - Film ing Thrillers & Walking on Voices in New Native Grande: Examining shop) - Writing Purpose: Determining & Challenges of Screening & the Wild Side - Heather Poets - Gordon Henry Immigration in Fic- War, Homecom- What You Want to Reporting in Rural Discussion - Graham in Conversation Jr. tion - Jerry Wilson ing & Life - Brian Write & Why … and America - Carson Return to Rainy with Sandra Brannan Turner - TICKET Doing It - Christina Vaughan Mountain - Jill REQUIRED ($20 or Abt Momaday 2-2:45 pm An Inside Look at Fiction, Bead by Bead: The Of Fathers & Fire: FREE for submit- Agnes Lake: The Research for Journalism & the Mysteries Details in Writing A Reading & Talk - ters to SDHC’s Real Love of Wild Bill Creative Writing of Both - Hank Phillippi Nonfiction - Tiffany Steven Wingate Veterans Story Hickok‘s Life - Tom - Stephanie Ryan Midge Contest) Clavin Anderson 3:30-4:15 EARLY BIRD pm BOOK SIGNINGS 4-5:30 - (Workshop) 4:30-5:15 4:30-5:45 - Books & Tatanka & Other Legends - Heirlooms: Creative pm Brews - Researching of the Lakota People: Life Writing - SDHC & Writing The Lager Creating the 2019 Young Scholar Molly Barari Queen of Minnesota Readers One Book - Don- - TICKET REQUIRED - J. Ryan Stradal - ald F. Montileaux ($20) 5:30 pm TICKET REQUIRED ($20) EXHIBITORS’ HALL CLOSES 5:45-7:15 LITERARY FEAST - Shoulder to Shoulder: How pm We Work Together to Connect with Readers, Booksellers & Communities - Nicole Baart, To- sca Lee & Kimberly Stuart, AKA “The Traveling Pens” - TICKET REQUIRED ($40) 7:30-8:30 FRIDAY NIGHT FEATURE: pm Winning Westeros: What Game of Thrones Tells Us About Modern War & World Affairs - John Amble & ML Cavanaugh 8:30-9:30 Open Mic - Sponsored pm by the South Dakota State Poetry Society

26 • 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. Visit www.sdbookfestival.com to purchase tickets for special events and workshops.

His & Hers Deadwood Mountain Grand Deadwood VFW Deadwood Public Library Franklin Martin & Mason Hotel Tatanka: LEAD Ale House & Wine Hotel Story of the Event Center Prospector Room Conference Room Bill’s Main Floor Downstairs 1898 Ballroom Bison Historic Bar Back- Emerald Homestake stage Bar Room Opera House 10-11:45 (Workshop) - Say (Workshop) - Pub- SDPB Live (Workshop) - Three- (Workshop) - (Workshop) 10-11:15 - am What? Dialogue, lishing Your Novel: Broadcast Dimensional, Unfor- Make Your Prose - Sonic Revolu- Virginia Driving Taglines and Narrative Start to Finish, from - In the gettable: Creating Sparkle - Nicole tion: Develop- Hawk Sneve 10:30-11:15 - Voice - Patrick Hicks an Independent and Moment Character - Tosca Lee Baart - TICKET ing Your Poet‘s Author Talk & Tatanka & Other - TICKET REQUIRED a Traditional Perspec- Book Club - TICKET REQUIRED REQUIRED ($20) Ear - Christine Tatanka Tour Legends - Donald ($20) tive - Ann Charles with host ($20) Stewart F. Montileaux & Kimberly Stuart Lori Walsh - TICKET speaks to third- - TICKET REQUIRED & Festival REQUIRED graders (general ($20) Authors ($20) 11:30-12:45 public welcome) - Nick Estes 12 pm 12-12:15 - Deadwood Alive presents “Showdown at High Noon,” a shootout featuring 12:30-1:15 - Using Author Talk & 12:30-1:15 - Heather Graham & Sandra Brannan (OUTSIDE THE DEADWOOD MOUNTAIN GRAND) Fiction to Illumi- Tatanka Tour Tatanka & Other nate Fact: “Efen- NOTE: Young Readers authors and illustra- Legends - Donald dim” & the Rescue tors will visit schools throughout the North- F. Montileaux 1 pm EXHIBITORS’ HALL OPENS of Captain Phillips ern Hills all day Friday. To sign your students speaks to third- - Rolf Yngve up for Friday field trips, contact Jennifer graders (general Widman, Director of the South Dakota Cen- public welcome) ter for the Book, (605) 688-5715. 1-1:45 pm Writing Romance, Think- Adisokan: Older Crossing the Rio 1:30-3:15 (Work- Finding Your Writer‘s The Opportunities 1-2:15 - Film ing Thrillers & Walking on Voices in New Native Grande: Examining shop) - Writing Purpose: Determining & Challenges of Screening & the Wild Side - Heather Poets - Gordon Henry Immigration in Fic- War, Homecom- What You Want to Reporting in Rural Discussion - Graham in Conversation Jr. tion - Jerry Wilson ing & Life - Brian Write & Why … and America - Carson Return to Rainy with Sandra Brannan Turner - TICKET Doing It - Christina Vaughan Mountain - Jill REQUIRED ($20 or Abt Momaday 2-2:45 pm An Inside Look at Fiction, Bead by Bead: The Of Fathers & Fire: FREE for submit- Agnes Lake: The Research for Journalism & the Mysteries Details in Writing A Reading & Talk - ters to SDHC’s Real Love of Wild Bill Creative Writing of Both - Hank Phillippi Nonfiction - Tiffany Steven Wingate Veterans Story Hickok‘s Life - Tom - Stephanie Ryan Midge Contest) Clavin Anderson 3:30-4:15 EARLY BIRD pm BOOK SIGNINGS 4-5:30 - (Workshop) 4:30-5:15 4:30-5:45 - Books & Tatanka & Other Legends - Heirlooms: Creative pm Brews - Researching of the Lakota People: Life Writing - SDHC & Writing The Lager Creating the 2019 Young Scholar Molly Barari Queen of Minnesota Readers One Book - Don- - TICKET REQUIRED - J. Ryan Stradal - ald F. Montileaux ($20) 5:30 pm TICKET REQUIRED ($20) EXHIBITORS’ HALL CLOSES 5:45-7:15 LITERARY FEAST - Shoulder to Shoulder: How pm We Work Together to Connect with Readers, Booksellers & Communities - Nicole Baart, To- sca Lee & Kimberly Stuart, AKA “The Traveling Pens” - TICKET REQUIRED ($40) 7:30-8:30 FRIDAY NIGHT FEATURE: pm Winning Westeros: What Game of Thrones Tells Us About Modern War & World Affairs - John Amble & ML Cavanaugh 8:30-9:30 Open Mic - Sponsored pm by the South Dakota State Poetry Society

27 SATURDAY, Oct. 5 KEY: CHILDREN’S/Y.A. | FICTION | HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING | NON-FICTION | POETRY | WRITERS’ SUPPORT | SPECIAL EVENT Deadwood Mountain Grand Deadwood Deadwood Public Library Franklin Hotel Deadwood City Martin & Mason Homestake VFW Hall Hotel Adams Event Center Prospector Room Conference Room Bill’s Back- Main Floor Downstairs Emerald Room 1898 Ballroom Research and stage Bar Cultural Center 9 am EXHIBITORS’ HALL OPENS 9-9:45 am How Fiction Can Preserve National What Is a Western? Writing Place: Let the Land A Documentary His- 10 Common Questions Writing & Illustrating Frog Creek Road: Abraham Lincoln and Women Voted Here The Good & the Bad of Security and Save Our Democracy - Genre, Region & Shape Your Story - Christine tory of the United for Fiction Authors - Ann History for Children - Writing the Poetry the Limits of Presi- ... Before Columbus - the Frontier Army - R. ML Cavanaugh Culture - Josh Garrett- Stewart & Steven Wingate States - Alexander Charles Robin Carmody, Betty of Place - Norma dential Power - Jon D. Sally Roesch Wagner Eli Paul Davis Heffner Jo Huff & Alex Portal Wilson Schaff 10-10:45 Everything I Know About Publish- Girl Gone Missing: Native American Characters, Poetry of War & 10 Secrets of Writing a NYT Creating, Publishing Contemporary History as Biography & In Defense of Loose Rosebud, June 17, am ing – & All the Mistakes I Made! Mystery in the Midwest Cultures and Languages in Homecoming - Bestseller - Tosca Lee & Sharing Porter the Adaptations of the Memoir: Eric Zimmer Translations: Writing 1876: Prelude to the - Heather Graham - Marcie Rendon Children‘s Books - Donald F. Brian Turner Hoarder with South Prose Poem Form - in Conversation with an Academic Memoir Little Big Horn - Paul Montileaux & Traci Sorrell Dakota Youth - Sean Sara Henning Stanford M. Adelstein - Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Hedren Covel & Rebecca Swift 11-11:45 Neither Wolf nor Dog: A Year of From Washington to Equality at the Ballot Box: A Vietnam Combat There Is No Writer‘s Block: The Christmas Coat: Library of the Behind the Scenes of Native Foods, Native Researching and Under- am Reflection and Conversation on the Patton ... to Skywalker: Woman Suffrage on the Veteran‘s Reflec- 20 Ways to Jump Start Your Telling Childhood Sto- Mind: A Reading - Zoo Nebraska: Chal- Stories - Heid Erdrich standing Lakota Views 2019 One Book South Dakota - Why the Most Powerful Northern Great Plains - Lori A. tions: Living with Novel - Hank Phillippi Ryan ries to New Genera- Patrick Hicks lenges and Choices of Wounded Knee - Kent Nerburn Military in the World Lahlum, Molly Rozum & SDHC PTSD - Craig tions - Virginia Driving - Carson Vaughan Jerome Greene is Turning to Fiction - Board Member Kelly Kirk Tschetter Hawk Sneve John Amble 12-12:45 pm VISIT EXHIBITORS‘ HALL - Get lunch at the concession stand! Take advantage of special offers on books & merchandise! Visit the South Dakota Humanities Council booth and tell us where you learned to read! 1-1:45 pm BOOK SIGNINGS 2-2:45 pm The (R)evolution of Indigenous Cowman: Writing the Writing about Illness, Loss & Writing in Blood: Time Management for Writ- Pet‘a Shows Misun The Decline of the Black Indian: Reflect- Don Smith: Doolittle Food Systems in North America - Poetry of the Prairie - Grief - Sara Henning & Chris- Violence without ers - Sandra Brannan the Light: Storytell- Novel - Joseph Bottum ing on Identity, Raider from Belle Sean Sherman Bruce Roseland tine Stewart Voyeurism - Rolf ing with a Message Writing a Memoir - Fourche - Paul Higbee Yngve - Jessie Taken Alive Shonda Buchanan Rencountre 3-3:45 pm The Lager Queen of Minnesota - J. tsunami vs. the fuku- The Frontier Army: Episodes Readings and Show- Beauty & Grace: The Story Using Picture Book A Woman Presidential From Soiled Doves to Spotted Tail: Warrior & Ryan Stradal shima 50: A Reading - from Dakota & the West - R. ings by the Winners Behind the Story - Christina Biographies in Class- Candidate … in 1884 - Suffragettes: Women Statesman - Richmond Lee Ann Roripaugh Eli Paul, Jerome Greene & Paul of SDHC‘s Veterans Abt rooms - Tracy Nelson Sally Roesch Wagner of the Old West - Clow Hedren Story Contest - Maurer Chris Enss Awards presented 4-4:45 pm Unfollow: Growing Up in (& Off the Cuff: Guiding New Poets of Native Nations - by Brian Turner How Books Become Movies: Why Write for Young A Search for Truth Women Written Out Wild Bill: Death in Dead- Getting Out of) America‘s Most Prisoners in Writing for Heid Erdrich, Gordon Henry Jr. Rights Optioning & the Film- People? - Traci Sorrell in the Old West - Bill of History - Melissa wood - Tom Clavin Controversial Church - Megan Reentry - Jim Reese & Gwen Westerman making Process - Sean Covel Markley Lenhardt Phelps-Roper 5 pm EXHIBITORS‘ HALL CLOSES 5-6:15 pm Film Preview & Discussion - Happy Hour for Words from a Bear: N. Scott Readers & Writ- Momaday on PBS American ers featuring Masters - Jill Momaday Literary Loot! 6:15 -7:30 6:15-6:30 - Distinguished Achieve- pm ment in the Humanities Awards 6:30-7:30 - A Celebration of South Dakota‘s New Poet Laureate, Chris- tine Stewart, with outgoing Poet Laureate Lee Ann Roripaugh and finalists Patrick Hicks & Jim Reese 7:45-8:45 SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL: Long- pm mire on the Page, on the Screen & on the Road - Craig Johnson

28 • 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. Visit www.sdbookfestival.com to purchase tickets for special events and workshops.

Deadwood Mountain Grand Deadwood Deadwood Public Library Franklin Hotel Deadwood City Martin & Mason Homestake VFW Hall Hotel Adams Event Center Prospector Room Conference Room Bill’s Back- Main Floor Downstairs Emerald Room 1898 Ballroom Research and stage Bar Cultural Center 9 am EXHIBITORS’ HALL OPENS 9-9:45 am How Fiction Can Preserve National What Is a Western? Writing Place: Let the Land A Documentary His- 10 Common Questions Writing & Illustrating Frog Creek Road: Abraham Lincoln and Women Voted Here The Good & the Bad of Security and Save Our Democracy - Genre, Region & Shape Your Story - Christine tory of the United for Fiction Authors - Ann History for Children - Writing the Poetry the Limits of Presi- ... Before Columbus - the Frontier Army - R. ML Cavanaugh Culture - Josh Garrett- Stewart & Steven Wingate States - Alexander Charles Robin Carmody, Betty of Place - Norma dential Power - Jon D. Sally Roesch Wagner Eli Paul Davis Heffner Jo Huff & Alex Portal Wilson Schaff 10-10:45 Everything I Know About Publish- Girl Gone Missing: Native American Characters, Poetry of War & 10 Secrets of Writing a NYT Creating, Publishing Contemporary History as Biography & In Defense of Loose Rosebud, June 17, am ing – & All the Mistakes I Made! Mystery in the Midwest Cultures and Languages in Homecoming - Bestseller - Tosca Lee & Sharing Porter the Adaptations of the Memoir: Eric Zimmer Translations: Writing 1876: Prelude to the - Heather Graham - Marcie Rendon Children‘s Books - Donald F. Brian Turner Hoarder with South Prose Poem Form - in Conversation with an Academic Memoir Little Big Horn - Paul Montileaux & Traci Sorrell Dakota Youth - Sean Sara Henning Stanford M. Adelstein - Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Hedren Covel & Rebecca Swift 11-11:45 Neither Wolf nor Dog: A Year of From Washington to Equality at the Ballot Box: A Vietnam Combat There Is No Writer‘s Block: The Christmas Coat: Library of the Behind the Scenes of Native Foods, Native Researching and Under- am Reflection and Conversation on the Patton ... to Skywalker: Woman Suffrage on the Veteran‘s Reflec- 20 Ways to Jump Start Your Telling Childhood Sto- Mind: A Reading - Zoo Nebraska: Chal- Stories - Heid Erdrich standing Lakota Views 2019 One Book South Dakota - Why the Most Powerful Northern Great Plains - Lori A. tions: Living with Novel - Hank Phillippi Ryan ries to New Genera- Patrick Hicks lenges and Choices of Wounded Knee - Kent Nerburn Military in the World Lahlum, Molly Rozum & SDHC PTSD - Craig tions - Virginia Driving - Carson Vaughan Jerome Greene is Turning to Fiction - Board Member Kelly Kirk Tschetter Hawk Sneve John Amble 12-12:45 pm VISIT EXHIBITORS‘ HALL - Get lunch at the concession stand! Take advantage of special offers on books & merchandise! Visit the South Dakota Humanities Council booth and tell us where you learned to read! 1-1:45 pm BOOK SIGNINGS 2-2:45 pm The (R)evolution of Indigenous Cowman: Writing the Writing about Illness, Loss & Writing in Blood: Time Management for Writ- Pet‘a Shows Misun The Decline of the Black Indian: Reflect- Don Smith: Doolittle Food Systems in North America - Poetry of the Prairie - Grief - Sara Henning & Chris- Violence without ers - Sandra Brannan the Light: Storytell- Novel - Joseph Bottum ing on Identity, Raider from Belle Sean Sherman Bruce Roseland tine Stewart Voyeurism - Rolf ing with a Message Writing a Memoir - Fourche - Paul Higbee Yngve - Jessie Taken Alive Shonda Buchanan Rencountre 3-3:45 pm The Lager Queen of Minnesota - J. tsunami vs. the fuku- The Frontier Army: Episodes Readings and Show- Beauty & Grace: The Story Using Picture Book A Woman Presidential From Soiled Doves to Spotted Tail: Warrior & Ryan Stradal shima 50: A Reading - from Dakota & the West - R. ings by the Winners Behind the Story - Christina Biographies in Class- Candidate … in 1884 - Suffragettes: Women Statesman - Richmond Lee Ann Roripaugh Eli Paul, Jerome Greene & Paul of SDHC‘s Veterans Abt rooms - Tracy Nelson Sally Roesch Wagner of the Old West - Clow Hedren Story Contest - Maurer Chris Enss Awards presented 4-4:45 pm Unfollow: Growing Up in (& Off the Cuff: Guiding New Poets of Native Nations - by Brian Turner How Books Become Movies: Why Write for Young A Search for Truth Women Written Out Wild Bill: Death in Dead- Getting Out of) America‘s Most Prisoners in Writing for Heid Erdrich, Gordon Henry Jr. Rights Optioning & the Film- People? - Traci Sorrell in the Old West - Bill of History - Melissa wood - Tom Clavin Controversial Church - Megan Reentry - Jim Reese & Gwen Westerman making Process - Sean Covel Markley Lenhardt Phelps-Roper 5 pm EXHIBITORS‘ HALL CLOSES 5-6:15 pm Film Preview & Discussion - Happy Hour for Words from a Bear: N. Scott Readers & Writ- Momaday on PBS American ers featuring Masters - Jill Momaday Literary Loot! 6:15 -7:30 6:15-6:30 - Distinguished Achieve- pm ment in the Humanities Awards 6:30-7:30 - A Celebration of South Dakota‘s New Poet Laureate, Chris- tine Stewart, with outgoing Poet Laureate Lee Ann Roripaugh and finalists Patrick Hicks & Jim Reese 7:45-8:45 SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL: Long- pm mire on the Page, on the Screen & on the Road - Craig Johnson

29 SUNDAY, Oct. 6 KEY: NON-FICTION | WRITERS’ SUPPORT | SPECIAL EVENT Deadwood Mountain Grand All in One Event Center Event Center Prospector Room Lead 9 – 10 9-10:15 - Sip, Sample & Serve: A Writing Buffet - am Local Authors Read from Their Work and Discuss Distribution 10 – Book Lovers‘ Brunch - TICKET 10:15-11 - You Don‘t Know Until You Try: Motiva- 11 am REQUIRED ($20) tion and Persistence in Writing - Spearfish author Marsha Mittman 11 am Looking Back, Thinking – Ahead: Women & Memoir - 12 pm Stephanie Anderson, Shonda Buchanan & Tiffany Midge 1 – CLOSING CELEBRATION: A Taste of Indige- 2:30 nous Tradition: A Luncheon by Sean Sherman pm of The Sioux Chef - TICKET REQUIRED ($50)

EXHIBITORS’ HALL Located in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Event Center and open from 1 to 5:30 pm on Friday and 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday. AUTHORS John Nemec, Midland Mariah Press, Sioux Falls, Christina M. Abt, East Aurora, NY, MariahPress.com ChristinaAbt.com James D. Patterson, Rapid City, JDP199.wix.com/jdpatterson Scurfpea Press, Sioux Falls, Colleen Walsh Brezny, Piedmont ScurfpeaPublishing.com James Pollock, Pierre Robert A. Christenson, Sioux Falls South Dakota Historical Society Press, Nirvana Pride, Huron, Pierre, SDHSPress.com Phyllis Cole-Dai, Brookings, NvMeBoutiques.com PhyllisColeDai.com University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, Audrey Rider, Henry NebraskaPress.unl.edu Ethel Diggs, Mellette J.E. “Scotty” Terrall, Books by Terrall, ORGANIZATIONS Brenda Donelan, Pierre, Custer Arts South Dakota, Sioux Falls, BrendaDonelan.com ArtsSouthDakota.org Donley Townsend, Nemo, Dineo Dowd, Sun Prairie, WI, DC-Townsend.com Deadwood History, Inc., Deadwood, DineoDowd.com DeadwoodHistory.com Christine Mager Wevik, Beresford, John English, Belle Fourche ChristineMagerWevik.com Lawrence County Historical Society, Deadwood Jason W. Freeman, San Diego, CA, Gary Wietgrefe, Sioux Falls, JasonWFreeman.com RelatingToAncients.com Literacy Council of the Black Hills, Rapid City, LiteracyCouncilBlackHills.org George Gilland & Sharon Rasmussen, BOOKSELLERS & PUBLISHERS Thunder Hawk Books, Timber Lake Bird Cage Book Store & Mercantile, Little Leaf Copy Editing, Rapid City, Rapid City, WordCarrier.com LittleLeafCopyEditing.com Dillon Haug, Spearfish Books-A-Million, Rapid City, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Helen Kline, Marble, CO BooksAMillion.com Vermillion, SDPB.org

Evelyn Leite, Rapid City, EvelynLeite.com Center for Western Studies, Sioux Falls, South Dakota State Poetry Society, Augie.edu/cws Bill Markley, Pierre, BillMarkley.com Seneca, SDPoetry.org Jones Literature, Spearfish, Western Writers of America, Shawn McGuire, Parker, CO, JonesLiterature.com Shawn-McGuire.com WesternWriters.org 30 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS Deadwood Mountain Grand All in One Event Center Event Center Prospector Room Lead 9 – 10 9-10:15 - Sip, Sample & Serve: A Writing Buffet - am Local Authors Read from Their Work and Discuss Distribution 10 – Book Lovers‘ Brunch - TICKET 10:15-11 - You Don‘t Know Until You Try: Motiva- 11 am REQUIRED ($20) tion and Persistence in Writing - Spearfish author Marsha Mittman 11 am Looking Back, Thinking – Ahead: Women & Memoir - 12 pm Stephanie Anderson, Shonda Buchanan & Tiffany Midge 1 – CLOSING CELEBRATION: A Taste of Indige- 2:30 nous Tradition: A Luncheon by Sean Sherman pm of The Sioux Chef - TICKET REQUIRED ($50)

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