CONTENTS 4 Mayor’s Welcome 6 SD Humanities Council Welcome 7 Event Locations and Parking 8 A Tribute to Children’s and Young Adult Literature Sponsored by United Way, John T. Vucurevich Foundation, Northern Hills Federal Credit Union and First Bank & Trust 9 A Tribute to Fiction Sponsored by AWC Family Foundation 10 A Tribute to Poetry Sponsored by Brass Family Foundation 11 A Tribute to Non-Fiction Sponsored by South Dakota Public Broadcasting 12 A Tribute to Writers’ Support Sponsored by 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

Who Was Nicholas Black Elk? Black Elk, or Heȟáka Sápa (1863-1950), was an Oglala Lakota vision- ary and healer whose messages about the unity of humanity and Earth were conveyed by John G. Neihardt in the book Black Elk Speaks. At age 9, Black Elk had his Great Vision on Black Elk Peak (then called Harney Peak), the highest natural point in South Dakota and the Black Hills, which many Lakota consider to be the center of the world. The cover photograph was taken by Neihardt in 1931 when Black Elk returned to the peak to pray. Photo courtesy of the John G. Neihardt Trust. For more information visit sdbookfestival.com or call (605) 688-6113. Times and pre- senters listed are subject to change. Changes will be announced on sdbookfestival.com, twitter.com/sdhumanities, facebook.com/sdhumanities and included in the Festival Sur- vivor’s Guide, a handout available at the Exhibitors’ Hall information desk in the Dead- wood Mountain Grand Event Center.

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410 E. Third St. • Yankton, SD 57078 800-456-5117 • www.SouthDakotaMagazine.com 3 WELCOME... Festival of Books Visitors: have the privilege as mayor of the city of Deadwood to welcome you I to our community for the 15th Annual South Dakota Festival of Books. Since the inception of this event in 2003, Deadwood has been the host city each odd-numbered year. The City of Deadwood, Deadwood His- toric Preservation Commission and Deadwood City Library are pleased to partner with the South Dakota Humanities Council to present this book festival. The list of presenters is long and impressive. Book lovers will have an opportunity to listen to a diverse group of authors from across 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 and Museum, Mt. Moriah, the Broken Boot Gold Mine and our new Welcome Center. 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 in its 55th anniversary of being designated a National Historic Landmark. If there is anything I can do to make your visit more pleasant, please contact me.

Sincerely,

Charles Turbiville, Mayor City of Deadwood

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HAT WOULD THE SOUTH DAKOTA literary landscape look like without the Festival of Books? I’ve been involved with the festival since its inception in 2003, so it is difficult to think of Wautumn without a flurry of preparations. It is difficult to imagine the Dead- wood Mountain Grand without literary-related exhibits, the excitement of scores of people in line waiting for author signatures and chats, reporters interview- ing famous or infamous authors, or chil- dren wildly waving their arms to answer the questions posed by an author. I can also imagine a cultural void in the state without the stories and bonds cre- ated in communities hosting programs with NEH grant funds or One Book South Dakota authors like William Kent Krueger and J. Ryan Stradal. Recent funding uncertainties due to the announcement of administrative budgets to shut down NEH, NEA and many other organi- zations that lift our culture force us to ponder “Why the Humanities?” To respond, we reached out for guest essays from SDHC leaders, festival pre- senters, grantees, newspaper reporters, attorneys, scholars — people who were at some point touched by the spark of a story or the joy in a child’s eyes. Book festival author Linda Hasselstrom opened her essay, “Change the World: With the Humanities and the Arts,” by quoting Malala Yousafzai, an education advocate from Pakistan — “One child, one book, one teacher, one pen can change the world.” In his essay, former board member Steve Sanford said, “The humanities are fully half our human existence,” which leads me to encourage you to ponder life without SDHC’s humanities stories. The “Why the Humanities” blog series is available on our website, www.sdhumanities.org. Please make your voice heard in Washington, D.C. “To cut funding is not only a denial of the essence of our species, but it erases our voice from the future,” says festival author Patrick Hicks in his essay, “Hardwired for Story.” The festival leaves us stories and provides voices for our future. Help us “leave a story” by getting involved through investing and telling your story.

It’s not too early to start making plans for the September 2018 festival in Brookings and Sioux Falls. We will be there.

Sherry DeBoer Executive Director South Dakota Humanities Council 6 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS FESTIVAL OF BOOKS EVENT LOCATIONS To Rapid City

DEADWOOD A. ADAMS MUSEUM (54 Sherman St.) B. DEADWOOD CITY HALL (108 Sherman St.) C. DEADWOOD MOUNTAIN GRAND (1906 Dead- wood Mountain Dr.) • Event Center • Prospector Room • Hotel Conference Room • Bill’s Backstage Bar

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

E. DEADWOOD WELCOME CENTER (501 Main St.) F. FRANKLIN HOTEL (700 Main St.) • Emerald Room – 2nd floor

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. MASONIC TEMPLE (715 Main St.) • Main floor J. TATANKA – Story of the bison (100 Tatanka Dr.)

LEAD – Take Hwy. 14A south to Lead. K L K. HISTORIC HOMESTAKE OPERA HOUSE (313 W. Main St.)

L. SANFORD LAB HOMESTAKE VISITOR CENTER (160 W. Main St.)

RAPID CITY – Take Hwy. 14A north to I90 to Rapid City. M. DAHL ARTS CENTER (713 7th St.) N. RACING MAGPIE & SEED THEATER (406 5th St.) O. RAPID CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY (610 Quincy St.)

STAY View changes to the schedule and other news at facebook.com/sdhumanities or at twitter.com/ CONNECTED sdhumanities and use #sdbookfest when commenting or to view others’ comments. FESTIVAL GUIDELINES Please abide by the following guidelines to make this event enjoyable for all: no soliciting or distributing flyers, literature, etc., of any kind at any festival venue without prior consent. No videotaping or tape recording. Turn cell phones and pagers off during presentations. The Festival of Books, its sponsors and venues are not responsible for lost or stolen items. 7 CHILDREN’S/Y.A.

OUTSIDE THE BOX Graphic novelist Gene Luen Adventures in Yang thinks it’s important Illustrating for kids to read outside their comfort zones. So when he promotes his platform “Reading HRIS VAN DUSEN credits Without Walls” as National his mom for fostering his ar- Ambassador for Young People’s tistic capabilities. “I’m the literature, Yang challenges kids second youngest of five boys to read about someone who and we all like to draw,” Van doesn’t look or live like them, Dusen says. “I think my moth- or choose a format or topic that er suggested drawing because otherwise, they don’t normally read for fun. likeC on a rainy day in the summer, when “I think sometimes readers — you have five boys running around the of all ages, really — tend to find house it can get a little crazy. I remem- a type of book we like and then ber coming up to her and saying, ‘What we return to that type of book can we do? There’s nothing to do.’ She’d over and over again,” Yang says. grab a bunch of paper, put us around the astounded that someone actually still While he doesn’t think that’s a dining room table and we’d sit there and paints pictures like this.” When planning bad thing, he believes we miss just draw.” his own books, he thinks about illustra- out if we stick to that home base Van Dusen spent over 10 years as an tion possibilities as he’s formulating the too closely. editorial illustrator, drawing for adver- story. He’s written eight stories of his Yang, who’s best known for tising, magazines, games and toys. “But own and illustrated books written by his graphic novels and work the work that I really enjoyed the most Mac Barnett and Kate DiCamillo. And on Avatar: The Last Airbender were kids’ magazines or illustrations though his books have done well, he’s comics, says he grew up as a geared towards kids,” he says. Then never thought of himself as a writer. “I “standard-issue nerd.” “I was one day, while working on an illustra- still to this day sort of consider myself never good at any sports and tion for a magazine, an image of a guy an illustrator who sometimes writes as I just never understood why with a boat stuck in a tree popped into opposed to a writer who illustrates, be- people liked them so much,” he his head. “So I grabbed a little scrap of cause the art thing was always there for says. But he challenged himself paper, sketched it out quickly, set it aside me and the writing came much later,” he to read about the basketball and went back to work. I kept looking at explains. scene in San Francisco in 1940s that little sketch and thinking it would be Van Dusen illustrated the 2017 Young Chinatown and started to come really fun to paint that,” Van Dusen re- Readers One Book South Dakota, Adven- around. members. “I sort of built a story around tures on Deckawoo Drive: Volumes 1-3, “I wasn’t just learning about that. How did this guy get in this tree? a special edition bind-in of three books this game, I was also learning How did he get stuck there? How is he in a series written by Kate DiCamillo. about its role in American going to get out? I just developed a story The South Dakota Humanities Council history and the intersection over time.” From that tiny sketch came distributed more than 3,000 copies to of sports and culture,” Yang Van Dusen’s first book, Down to the South Dakota third-graders. Along with says. “[Reading Sea with Mr. Magee, published in 2000. his appearance at the festival, he’ll visit Without Walls] “That started my book career and I loved schools, which he finds rewarding be- taught me to it so much I just kept going,” he says. cause he meets kids who want to be illus- understand Van Dusen’s retro, bold and bright trators, too. “It’s really cute. They come people that I style lends well to the wholesome sto- up and they say, ‘I want to do what you otherwise had ries. He sketches initial ideas in pen- do,’” Van Dusen says. “I hope someday I a hard time cil, but finished results are painted. “A live long enough where I meet someone understanding.” lot of people think they’re done with a and they say, ‘I was at one of your school computer, especially kids,” he says. “I visits once and now this is what I do for guess they’re so used to having things a living.’ I think that would be the most produced digitally that they’re sort of rewarding thing of all.” 8 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS FICTION

War and Storytelling FOOD CONNECTS US J. Ryan Stradal’s novel Kitchens T’S EASY TO read Tim O’Brien’s with it for 30 years.” of the Great Midwest follows the The Things They Carried and take O’Brien appears at the Festival of evolution of Eva Thorvald, a young it as a deeply personal account of Books in Deadwood and in Sturgis, where celebrity chef born and raised in his experiences fighting in Viet- an NEA Big Read grant has supported the heartland. And while Stradal’s nam. Take the chapter called “On programming on The Things They Car- not a chef himself, he’s always the Rainy River,” for example. ried. Robert Olen Butler, a Pulitzer Prize had an interest in food. Stradal O’Brien writes about winner and Vietnam was born in Hastings, Minnesota Ireceiving his draft no- veteran, and Veterans in 1975, raised on Hamburger tice and the inner de- Writing Project founder Helper, Jell-O salads, hot dishes bate that tore him apart Ron Capps return to and gooey bars. His parents — fight or flee. One day the Festival this year, descended from farmers and he simply walks away as well. In addition, the emphasized eating local crops. “I from his job and drives South Dakota Humani- remember the sweet corn, and north to the Canadian ties Council will award when rhubarb came into season border. He spends six its second annual Vet- there would be pies around. I felt days at a fishing resort erans Writing Prize. like that was fun,” Stradal says. managed by 81-year- Despite its firmly In Kitchens, Thorvald values old Elroy Berdahl, who entrenched place in local ingredients, too. She grows becomes a Yoda of sorts. the world of fiction, scorching hot peppers in her Berdahl takes O’Brien O’Brien’s book has bedroom at age 11. But as she fishing on the Rainy found its way into the matures, her palate does, too. River, which separates hands of active-duty Meals crafted with fresh caught the U.S. from Canada. There, in a little soldiers around the world, an unexpected walleye, heirloom tomatoes, boat 20 yards from freedom, O’Brien fruit of his creative labors. farm fresh eggs and venison are breaks down and decides he’s not coura- “I certainly did not intend the book to woven throughout a rich cast of geous enough to run. He’ll return home to be used as a source of therapy, even for characters. Each chapter is told Worthington, and from there he’ll go to myself,” O’Brien says. “The intent was through the perspective of a the jungles of Vietnam, to kill or be killed. artistic, to try to write a compelling, com- different one. It’s a powerful story. Thousands of vet- plex group of stories about the feel of Stradal, who now lives in Los erans can no doubt relate. But there’s a warfare, maybe even the feel of guerilla Angeles, hopes the book shows catch. or civil war, where there are so many un- how food connects people None of it is true. No fishing lodge. No certainties. Who do you kill? Who do you and signifies class, taste and Elroy Berdahl. not kill? The feel of treacherous ground geographical location. “I wanted O’Brien has heard all of this before. under your feet, both morally and physi- to talk about how the food in Despite being billed as a work of fiction cally. The terrain seemed to be killing the Midwest has evolved for me. since it was published in 1990, reviewers people, with mines and booby traps, an I go back there up to a dozen sometimes refer to The Things They Car- unseen enemy lurking everywhere. times a year now, and I just see ried as semiautobiographical, assuming “The intent of the book was not to intel- how people’s habits and practices that because O’Brien did indeed serve lectually talk about this stuff, but to dra- have changed as it relates to their in Vietnam that its essays must be based matize all of these uncertainties and the relationship with in fact. “I understand why that’s done,” feel of moral ground shifting under your food. I was interested O’Brien says. “I wanted to write a book feet. On the other hand, I’m delighted in telling that story,” of fiction that made the reader wonder if it if the book is helping people, especially he explains. “I hope was real, and I used certain devices. I ded- current vets. I get letters from Afghani- that the readers in icated the book to its characters, which stan and Iraq, so I know it’s being carried the Midwest think are fictional. The declaration at the begin- around, and I’m glad if it helps.” about how that story ning of the book is ignored. In a way, I might relate to them succeeded too well, and I’ve had to live as well.”

9 POETRY

HERE AND NOW More than Words Right now, you’re reading a story about Brookings writers Phyllis ON’T BE FOOLED by tion of a visual work of art — is an- Cole-Dai and Ruby Wilson, and Heid Erdrich’s new col- other example of her extraordinary their new anthology called Poetry of lection of poetry. There’s collaborative reach. “What drew me Presence. But sooner or later, a sight, a lot more going on than to this ekphrasis technique was my sound or smell might distract you. just words on a page. work as a visual arts curator,” she In a few seconds you’ll come back, That’s because Erdrich is says. “The longer I work with visual but what if, in that moment, you not simply an author, playwright and artists, the more I realize they do not hadn’t strayed, and instead devoted Dteacher in the MFA Creative Writing really want to be written about in the yourself fully to the act of reading? program at Augsburg College in St. manner they often are by critics and That concept is called mindfulness, Paul, Minnesota. She is scholars. They do seem or keeping our heads and hearts also a collaborative art- to appreciate response where our bodies are. It’s the theme ist. Erdrich has curated and collaboration. My of Poetry of Presence, a collection of several art exhibits and curatorial act is to write more than 150 mindfulness poems worked with musicians, creatively and collabo- by contemporary poets. filmmakers and dancers. rate with artists who ap- Cole-Dai has practiced That’s what makes peal to me. It is a kind mindfulness meditation for decades, her new book so unique. of extended ekphrasis.” and along the way collected several Curator of Ephemera Finally, the language. poems that she considered mindful. at the New Museum for Erdrich grew up in Then she started a daily poetry Archaic Art is indeed a Wahpeton, North Dako- blog, which grew so rapidly that poetry book. But read- ta, and is an Ojibwe en- eventually she invited Wilson to help ers will find QR codes rolled at Turtle Moun- manage it. After three years online, that direct them to short films that tain. Several poems begin with lines they decided an anthology was the accompany certain works. Other po- that Erdrich has written in English. next logical step. ems include visual art with Erdrich’s They are then translated into the An- “The two of us had the absolute words, and still others are windows ishinaabe language by poet and lan- joy of reading mountains of great into Native American languages that guage teacher Margaret Noodin, who poetry and identifying poems we are quickly disappearing. then retranslates them into English. In would like to anthologize,” Cole- First the films. Readers with smart- the book, Erdrich explains that read- Dai says. “Then we got to shape phones can scan QR codes at the ers are following along as Noodin all those wonderful poems into end of four poems that direct them teaches her the literal translation of a unified collection. That process to short videos, or “poemeos,” that her indigenous language and its po- was very intuitive, very mindful. It she has produced in collaboration etic return to English, which helps required lots of coffee, hair pulling, with Jonathan Thunder. “I have al- both of them understand the nuances. laughter and long walks. It taught ways thought of certain of my poems “It is a way to revitalize the language us even more than we knew as little films,” Erdrich says. “I see and something I do because I prom- about the relationship between them in movement, in drawing, with ised my Ojibwe language teachers mindfulness and poetry.” certain sounds and words from other I would do creative things with the “We are fellow writers and great authors in my mind. The first poem- language, to the extent I am able,” friends, and we knew we would films I saw were made on a poet’s Erdrich says. “That’s not much, so I enjoy working together,” Wilson work, not by a poet. I wanted to be work with Margaret to create these adds. “We were totally involved and explored the me- works bilingually.” united by our dium without studying it first. It was Readers may disagree. Through her firm conviction liberating and thrilling.” poetry, Erdrich does much to explore that poetry — Then there’s the art. Illustrations the traditions and current issues fac- mindfulness poetry from Andrea Carlson are found ing indigenous people, and her unique especially — has throughout the work, but many of the collaborations allow readers to follow the power to unify poems are inspired by other pieces of along in ways that other poetry col- us and transform art, both real and imaginary. Erdrich’s lections cannot offer. our world.” use of ekphrasis — a verbal descrip-

10 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS NON-FICTION

Understanding Middle Eastern Tumult DREAM LIST Rob Fleder is among the HEN THE ARAB fostered her intense interest in the Middle most fortunate of men, Spring erupted in the East and led to her career as a journalist. for he earns his daily bread Middle East in early She works today for several research in- doing what he loves. A life- long sports fan, he grew up 2011, many in the stitutions, but as a foreign correspondent to be “a curator of sports Western world saw it for The Guardian, she witnessed how this stories” as an editor with as an opportunity for centuries-old division still permeates life. Sports Illustrated for 20 citizens living under oppressive regimes “The Shi’a every year mark Hussein’s years, the last five in its book Wto exert more control over their govern- death in Karbala during several days of division. Since setting out ments and daily lives. But mourning and commemora- on his own, he and fellow those closer to the situation tion,” Abdo says. “The tra- SI alumnus Steve Hoffman knew it could stoke fires that dition is to try to suffer and have collaborated to have burned between two Is- relive this massacre of the produce The Sports Bucket lamic factions for centuries. Imam Hussein the way it List: 101 Sights Every Fan Has In her new book The New happened so many centuries to See Before the Clock Runs Sectarianism: The Arab Up- ago. They flagellate them- Out, which was released earlier this year. risings and the Rebirth of the selves, they hit themselves Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung “This book has been Shi’a-Sunni Divide, Geneive with chains, they bleed. The brewing for as long as I’ve Abdo argues that religion is at the heart of whole idea is to remember and mark the been interested in sports, it all, despite the fact that in the West, the suffering of the Shi’a at that time, and it which is to say, as far back as ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are very much shapes how the Shi’a have al- I can remember,” said Fleder. often portrayed as battles over land use, ways perceived themselves.” “I have witnessed many, but political power and access to education. So even though the Arab Spring began not all, of the things covered Shi’a and Sunni are the two major as an effort to depose dictators, it quickly in our book. In that sense, denominations of Islam, and the schism evolved into something else. “By the time the list is not just historical, between the two dates back to the death the Arab Uprisings happened, religious but aspirational. of the prophet Muhammad in the year identity became much more important be- “My hope is that everyone 632 and the debate over who should suc- cause the Arab Uprisings dismantled the who looks at the book, sports fan or not, will get a ceed him as leader of their faith. Those nation-state in some countries as it had glimpse of a variety of people who became Sunni believed the succes- existed for many decades, since colonial and places and events that sor should come from Muhammad’s close powers carved up the Middle East,” Abdo they’ve never seen before. friends and advisors, while those who be- says. “In the beginning, the goal was not That, by the way, is part came Shi’a argued that the person should religiously based. It was, ‘We want to get of what I think of as the come from the prophet’s direct blood- rid of these dictators.’ The religious fac- essential appeal of sports, line. The disagreement culminated in the tors only became important later.” what binds them together, if Battle of Karbala, in which Sunni forces Unfortunately, Abdo believes conflicts you will. Sports promise, and massacred the Shi’a religious leader Hus- in places like Iraq and Syria will contin- often deliver, a chance to sein ibn Ali and his household. ue. “When the war in Syria began to be see amazing, unforgettable “This narrative from the battle came to defined more along religious lines, then achievements, things that define how the Shi’a viewed themselves,” ISIS entered, and that created a new di- you will probably never see again.” Abdo says. “That began the martyrdom mension of complexity,” she says “Syria narrative that exists, and how they view and Iraq are mostly partitioned countries the Sunni. They considered them to have right now. The Kurds live in one area, murdered Hussein, and that narrative of there are Shi’a pockets in Iraq. I think oppression is still relevant.” what we’re looking at for the future is not Abdo grew up in Texas, but her parents an official partition of these countries, but came from Lebanon. That connection certainly a de facto partition.”

11 WRITERS’ SUPPORT

WRITING REGARDLESS Linda Hasselstrom describes herself as “a perpetual student” of American western history, culture and ecology. That restless curiosity is the root of 15 books, countless articles, essays and blog posts; everything else required for a writing career, as either a job or an avocation, is covered in her workshop, “Writing Through Seven Denise Kiernan Karen Abbott Decades: No Matter What Happens,” on the importance of keeping at your craft through Historians, Friends and Mentors the deaths of loved ones, dead- end jobs, divorce, depression enise Kiernan and Karen had the basis for an immediate connec- and interludes of scant Abbott have always been in- tion. It helps that she is a truly fabulous, inspiration. terested in history, particu- warm-hearted, hilarious and sassy hu- Hasselstrom has guided larly women’s roles. “It’s man being. I’m sure the attendees at the and encouraged other writers astonishing and a bit trag- Festival of Books will agree with me,” throughout her career. “I have ic to me that some of these says Abbott. an MA in American Literature, names have been lost,” Abbott says. Kiernan and Abbott will present and while I didn’t really care to “I’mD intrigued by what the ‘bad’ and a workshop on generating ideas and work for an institution, I am a ‘defiant’ women were doing — women then pitching, researching and writing teacher,” she said. In 1996 she who were not afraid to challenge and a narrative book. They know that the began to follow that vocation upend the mores and expectations of process can be mystifying and frus- in a unique way by establishing their times, and who often used sub- trating, so they hope to break it down, Windbreak House Writing versive means for doing so. Also, at step-by-step. “Other people helped me Retreats on her Hermosa ranch. my core, I’m jealous of my characters when I was coming along, whether by “It seemed logical, since I had and their bold and brazen lives. I wish taking the time to give me a good ed- a spare house after my parents I could have lived them myself. Writing ucational edit or just by offering the died, to create a writing retreat about them is the next best thing.” right encouragement at the right time. and teach at home,” she said. Abbott’s most recent book, Liar, I now enjoy doing the same for others,” Windbreak House retreats are Temptress, Soldier, Spy, is about four Kiernan says. “It can be a lonely busi- structured to fit the participants’ women who worked undercover dur- ness, and it’s important to be reminded needs, with written appraisals ing the Civil War, while Kiernan’s The that every writer started somewhere, and suggestions for revisions, as Girls of Atomic City recounts the expe- somehow, trying hard just to get that well as further reading. riences of the young women who made first book out there in the world.” “I love to be alone when I fuel for the first atomic bomb. “I love Their session will be conversation- write, but every single time I sinking into other worlds, cultures and al, with lots of time for questions. And work with someone on their time periods,” Kiernan says. “It’s all though Kiernan and Abbott are pri- writing, I find some glimmer of fascinating to me.” marily nonfiction authors, the dis- inspiration for my own,” said The authors became fast friends cussion will apply to other genres. “I Hasselstrom. “I am a fellow when a mutual acquaintance intro- think all writing presents challenges. writer to those who come duced them. “He thought we’d hit it off Whether you’re writing history, mem- here. We share our insights and, boy oh boy, was he right. I think oir or fiction, I think it all boils down to, and problems, and both of us Karen is the bee’s knees, and it was ‘Tell me a story.’ I often think of how I, benefit.” like bestie love at first sight,” Kiernan as a reader, would want to be brought says. “There are so few women writing into the narrative and work from there,” historical narrative nonfiction, so we Kiernan says.

12 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING

BLACK ELK STILL SPEAKS Weaving Science with Tradition Lakota scholar and author Vine Deloria, Jr., often referred to the OBIN WALL KIMMERER and animals are our oldest teachers. book Black Elk Speaks as a sort grew up playing in the lush “I wanted readers to understand that of “bible of all tribes.” His son, countryside of upstate New indigenous knowledge and Western Philip Deloria, a historian at the York. She’s an enrolled mem- science are both powerful ways of University of Michigan, has penned ber of the Citizen Potawatomi knowing, and that by using them to- an introduction to the University of Nation, but because she lived gether we can imagine a more just and Nebraska’s newest edition of the away from the Potawa- joyful relationship with classic called Black Elk Speaks: The Rtomi people, the fields the Earth,” Kimmerer Complete Edition. and forests were her explains. She hopes The book has had incredible connection to her cul- that the perspectives staying power since it first appeared ture. “As a young person she shares help to heal in 1932. It’s written beautifully by I was intensely interested a broken relationship John Neihardt, and helps readers in nature, understand- with the land in this longing to learn about literature, ing plants as a source time of environmen- ethnography, religion and history. of beauty and endless tal crisis. “It is also But Deloria believes there’s more fascination, as deeply important to me to be to its appeal. “I think that Black creative beings, and also a voice for the other Elk Speaks functions as both a respecting them as im- non-human persons statement and a puzzle,” Deloria portant teachers of many with whom we share says. “You walk away from it with life lessons,” Kimmerer the planet. I hope that a certain kind of clarity about the remembers. “When I be- in reading Braiding reality of a complicated world you gan studying botany at the university, the Sweetgrass people will be reminded don’t fully understand. For a lot materialist, reductionist nature of West- that the plants shower us with gifts of thoughtful readers, Black Elk ern science left little room for thinking of every day, from oxygen to food and Speaks stays with you; it requires plants in this way.” medicines, soil to life lessons. We additional mental and emotional Even so, Kimmerer devoured all should be asking ourselves, ‘How do work. That’s what the best writing that plant science taught her, earning we reciprocate the gifts of the plants? does, and I think that helps explain bachelor’s and master’s degrees and How might we live so that the plants why it has remained an important a Ph.D. in botany. Indigenous ideas are grateful for our presence?’” book.” were absent from her professors’ class- Kimmerer says her book’s most ur- Deloria has also used the book es, but learning the mechanisms, phys- gent teaching is the story of the Win- in college courses. “It opens you iology, genetics and ecology deepened digo, a legendary monster of the An- up to the history of American her respect for the living world. “Now ishinaabe people. The tale is a warning colonialism, the mystery of decades later, I am deeply gratified against greed and unrestrained con- spirituality, the challenges of oral that indigenous knowledge is increas- sumption, which she says threatens history, transcription, and as-told-to ingly valued as a vital partner to West- our very existence. “Our political narratives, the experience of Indian ern science in devising ways to care and economic systems tend to reward modernity in a global world, the for people and planet,” she says. the destructive exploitation of the materiality of objects in museums, Kimmerer has spent much of her ca- Earth. They support Windigo behavior, the question of religious syncretism, reer opening the door for that partner- which jeopardizes the future of life the performance of Indian identities ship. She teaches at the SUNY College as we love it today,” Kimmerer says. and many other things. From it, of Environmental Science and Forest- “Braiding Sweetgrass helps us to rei- you can build all kinds of bridges ry in Syracuse, New York, and is the magine a different way forward, based and connections to any number founding Director of the Center for on The Honorable Harvest, an indig- of other issues, questions and Native Peoples and the Environment. enous-inspired guide which grounds themes. It’s a kind of gateway into The poetic prose of Kimmerer’s book our necessary consumption in grati- thinking more, and more seriously, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wis- tude, humility, respect and reciprocity about American Indian lives and dom, Scientific Knowledge and the so that we all might live.” histories.” Teachings of Plants shows that plants 13 PRESENTERS

KAREN ABBOTT is the MIKE ARTELL is an author, illustrator, Rapid City freelance writer and marketing author of Sin in the Second musician and professional speaker. In addi- consultant MOLLY BARARI holds an City, American Rose and, tion to writing and illustrating more than 40 MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes Uni- most recently, Liar, Tempt- books, he has also created greeting cards versity. She has presented ress, Soldier, Spy, recent- and cartoons and hosted a children’s Sat- life writing workshops to ly optioned by Sony for a urday morning TV show in New Orleans. groups such as Commu- miniseries. A native of Phil- Artell shares Cajun-influenced music and nity Education of the Black adelphia, she now lives in New York City, innovative techniques for thinking, writ- Hills, On Common Ground, where she’s at work on a book about mur- ing and drawing with more creativity and Rapid City Society for Ge- der, bootlegging and justice in the Jazz Age. humor. nealogical Research and Black Hills Retired School Personnel. Such GENEIVE ABDO is a senior fellow at the DAVID AZERRAD de- workshops inspired her first book, Da- Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the votes his time and research kota Heirlooms, a collection of true sto- Middle East in Washington, D.C., and a lec- to increasing public un- ries from senior citizens. Barari loves doing turer at the Elliott School of International Af- derstanding of America’s yoga, walking, reading and watching Alfred fairs at George Washington University. She founding principles. As di- Hitchcock movies. has written four books, most recently The rector of the B. Kenneth New Sectarianism. A specialist in political Simon Center for Princi- ANN BAUSUM writes about history for Islam, Abdo has served as the liaison offi- ples and Politics and AWC Family Founda- readers of all ages from her home in south- cer for the United Nations’ Alliance of Civi- tion fellow at The Heritage Foundation, he ern Wisconsin. Her works often focus on lizations and as a foreign correspondent fo- teaches policymakers, politicians and the under-told stories, and she frequently ex- cused on the Middle East and the Muslim public about the American political tradi- plores issues of social justice, as in her most world. tion, connecting its tenets to the thorny recent title: The March Against Fear. Bau- questions of the day. sum’s previous works for young readers

14 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS PRESENTERS have explored the World War I adventures A native of Australia, of a dog named Stubby, the Civil Rights GREGORY BRYAN Movement, voting rights, gay rights, immi- teaches at the University gration and free speech. of Manitoba, specializing in children’s literature. He JOSEPH BOTTUM is a professor of cy- has published six books, ber-ethics and director of the CLASSICS In- most recently a biography stitute at Dakota State University. The for- of South Dakota artist Paul Goble. While mer literary editor of the Weekly Standard Goble is Bryan’s favorite illustrator, his fa- and former editor in chief of the journal vorite writer is the Australian Henry Lawson. First Things, he holds a Ph.D. in medieval In 2011 and 2012, Bryan became the first philosophy. His books include the South person to recreate Lawson’s 1890s walks in Dakota memoir The Christmas Plains and the Outback. He is a father, husband, sports the sociological study An Anxious Age. nut, speaker, reader, birder and traveler.

Author of the heart-pounding Liv Bergen ROBERT OLEN BUTLER is the au- mystery series, SANDRA BRANNAN thor of 16 novels, including A Small Hotel, writes about the mining world she’s known Hell and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb her entire life and about the FBI she’s grown series. He has also written a book on the to love through her best friend. Brannan creative process and six short story collec- enjoys working with relatives in the min- tions, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning A ing business; living in the Black Hills with her Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. He husband, Joel; smiling with pride over the has twice won a National Magazine Award journeys taken by her four sons; and doting for Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott on her three grandchildren. Fitzgerald Literary Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. But- CHRIS BROWNE is a born cartoonist. ler teaches creative writing at Florida State His father, Dik Browne, created the comic University. strips Hi and Lois and Hägar the Horrible. Chris Browne contributed to Hägar from RON CAPPS is the founder and direc- its beginning in 1972 and tor of the Veterans Writing Project, a non- took it over upon his fa- profit that provides no-cost ther’s death. Browne co- writing seminars for veter- authored Hägar the Horri- ans and their adult family ble’s Very Nearly Complete members. Having served Viking Handbook. He has for 25 years in the U.S. also contributed cartoons Army and Army Reserve, to National Lampoon, Playboy, Esquire and Capps is also a retired For- The New Yorker. His first children’s book, eign Service officer for the Department of The Monster Who Ate the State, came out State. His memoir, Seriously Not All Right, in 2014. documents his service and details his strug- gles with post-traumatic stress disorder. As a writer and traditional storyteller, JO- SEPH BRUCHAC often draws on his RICHARD CARR was born in Valen- Native American (Abenaki) ancestry and tine, Nebraska, at the end of the Great De- his home area, the Adirondack Region of pression and grew up on ranches on and northern New York. Author of more than around the Rosebud Reservation in South 130 books for young readers and adults, his Dakota. Except for a short hiatus to earn an experiences include running engineering degree and start a family, he a college program in a maxi- spent much of his life working cattle. His re- mum security prison and search into the experiences of his grandfa- teaching in Ghana. His most ther, John E. Carr, led to The World’s Largest recent novel, Talking Leaves, Roundup, 1902. Carr lives in Phoenix with is about Sequoyah’s creation his wife, Mary. of the Cherokee alphabet.

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ANN CHARLES writes system in Burkina Faso. Diggs also teaches award-winning mysteries poetry in the state’s prisons, which led to splashed with humor, ad- the publication of Prose and Cons. venture, supernatural sus- pense, romance and what- Born and raised on the Rosebud Reserva- ever else sounds fun. A tion, VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK member of Sisters in Crime SNEVE has both Sioux and Ponca heri- and Romance Writers of America, Charles tage. Her books for all ages include The writes three current, on-going series: Dead- Trickster and the Troll, Completing the Circle wood Mysteries, Jackrabbit Junction Mys- and Standing Bear of the Ponca, and she teries and Dig Site Mysteries. has also published numerous shorter pieces. Her most recent book is Sioux Women: Tra- PHYLLIS COLE-DAI lives in Brookings ditionally Sacred. with her husband and teenage son. Poet- ry of Presence is her seventh book and her Poet, writer and filmmaker HEID E. ER- only volume of poetry. She has also created DRICH has written five books of poetry, four music albums and is in demand as a most recently Curator of Ephemera at the public speaker. Cole-Dai is driven by a pro- New Museum for Archaic Media, as well found desire to help create a more humane as Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, world. and Recipes from the Upper Midwest. She lives in Minnesota with her husband, kids PHILIP J. DELORIA is and a feisty Jack Russell terrier. the Carroll Smith-Rosen- berg Collegiate Professor After 36 years as a teacher and adminis- in the College of Litera- trator at Flandreau Indian School, MARY ture, Science and the Arts REECY FITZGERALD at the University of Michi- earned a master’s degree gan, where he teaches in History of Textiles/Quilt courses ranging from environmental history Studies from the Univer- to songwriting. His research focuses on the sity of Nebraska and be- social, cultural and political histories of the gan a quilt documentation relations between American Indians and project in South Dakota. In the United States, resulting in books such as addition to her new book, South Dakota Playing Indian, Indians in Unexpected Places Quilts and Quiltmakers, she has published in and American Studies: A User’s Guide. Uncoverings and Blanket Statements, both publications of the American Quilt Study Winner of the 1988 National Book Award Group. for his novel Paris Trout, PETE DEXTER began his working life at a U.S. Post of- During his 20 years at Time, Inc., ROB fice in New Orleans. He went on to write FLEDER was executive editor of Sports for newspapers and compiled many of his Illustrated and editor of columns into the book Paper Trails. Dexter Sports Illustrated Books. now splits his time between Washington His latest book, co-written state and a house in the Arizona desert so with Steven Hoffman, is remote that there is no postal service. The Sports Bucket List. Fled- er has also edited Damn LAWRENCE DIGGS has produced Yankees: Twenty-Four Ma- documentaries, written books and made jor League Writers on the World’s Most presentations around the Loved (and Hated) Team and Paper Trails, a world. He founded The collection of Pete Dexter’s journalism. He International Vinegar Mu- lives in the Hudson River Valley with his wife, seum in South Dakota, Marilyn Johnson, and his dog, Homer. helped plan and build a Buddhist temple in San MARTIN JOHN GARHART, author of Francisco and designed Learning to Draw – Drawing to Learn, has and created a national emergency medical worked as an artist – teaching, making and 16 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS 17 PRESENTERS

showing his images – for 40 years. A Pro- cords. Higbee writes Black Hills features and fessor Emeritus of Art at Kenyon College in columns for South Dakota Magazine from Gambier, Ohio, Garhart splits time between his home base in Spearfish. his cabin/studio in the Black Hills and his home/studio in Powell, Wyoming. MARILYN JOHNSON is the author of three non-fiction books: Lives in Ruins Born and raised in Saskatchewan, KATH- (about archaeologists), This LEEN GRISSOM is now happily rooted Book Is Overdue! (about in Southside Virginia, where she and her librarians) and The Dead husband live in the plantation tavern they Beat (about obituary writ- renovated. The author of historical fic- ers). She and her husband, tion such as The Kitchen House and Glory writer/editor Rob Fleder, are Over Everything, Grissom is now research- long-time friends of the South Dakota Fes- ing Crow Mary, a Native woman who car- tival of Books. She speaks frequently about ried a Colt revolver on her studded belt and libraries, books and the craft of writing, and wasn’t afraid to use it. is currently working on a memoir.

HEATHER GUDENKAUF is the author South Carolina native and Texas resident of The Weight of Silence and Not a Sound. VARIAN JOHNSON is an engineer and Born in Wagner, South Da- the author of six novels, including the Jack- kota, she lived on the Rose- son Greene middle-grade series. The first bud Reservation until age book in the series, The 3, when her family moved Great Greene Heist, was to Iowa. Living with a pro- an ALA Notable Children’s found unilateral hearing Book Selection and a loss, Gudenkauf often re- Kirkus Reviews Best Book treated into books. Her voracious reading of the Year, and has been planted the seed that blossomed into her named to more than 25 writing career. state reading and best-of lists. His books for older readers include My Life as a Rhombus LINDA M. HASSELSTROM is a South and Saving Maddie. Dakota rancher and full-time resident writ- er at Windbreak House Writing Retreats. In more than 20 years as a writer, DE- She has published 16 books, most recently NISE KIERNAN has been published Gathering from the Grassland, and has con- in The New York Times, tributed poetry and nonfiction to dozens of Wall Street Journal, Vil- anthologies and magazines. lage Voice and more. She also worked as head writer PATRICK HICKS is the author of 10 for ABC’s Who Wants to books of poetry and fiction, including The Be a Millionaire during its Collector of Names and Adoptable, and the first season. Her books includeThe Girls of novel The Commandant of Lubizec. A dual Atomic City and this fall’s The Last Castle. citizen of Ireland and America, Hicks is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana Universi- ROBIN WALL KIMMERER is a moth- ty, as well as a faculty member at the MFA er, scientist and enrolled member of the program at Sierra Nevada College. Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her books in- clude Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering PAUL HIGBEE is the Moss, which won the John Burroughs Med- author of South Dakota’s al for outstanding nature writing. Kimmer- Cowboy Governor, Tom er lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is Berry, about the colorful SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of man who led the state Environmental Biology and founder-direc- through the worst of the tor of the Center for Native Peoples and the Depression. His previous Environment. books have explored Bear Butte, Spearfish Canyon and Mount Rushmore’s Hall of Re- WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER is the au-

18 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS thor of the Cork O’Connor mystery series, have featured award-winning and best-sell- set in the great Northwoods of Minnesota, ing authors, including Clive Barker and Neil and the 2015 One Book South Dakota, Or- Gaiman. Murano is an active member of dinary Grace. He lives in St. Paul, does his the Horror Writers Association and a co-re- creative writing in funky local coffee shops cipient of the HWA’s 2014 Richard Laymon and attributes his success as a writer to all President’s Award for Service. the wonderful stories he read as a child. JERRY NELSON and his wife, Julie, live JON K. LAUCK is the author of seven in Volga, on the farm that books, including From Warm Center to Jerry’s great-grandfather Ragged Edge, and the co-author and co- homesteaded in the 1880s. editor of two volumes of The Plains Political Daily life on that farm pro- Tradition. He serves as adjunct professor of vided fodder for a long-run- history and political science at the University ning weekly newspaper col- of South Dakota, associate editor and book umn, “Dear County Agent Guy,” which review editor of Middle West Review, series became a book of the same name. In ad- editor of Studies in Midwestern History and dition to his column, Nelson’s writing has host of the “Heartland History” podcast. appeared in the nation’s top agricultural magazines. ALISON MCGHEE writes for all ages in all forms. Her Pulitzer Prize-nominated nov- An enrolled member of the Standing Rock el, Shadow Baby, was a Today Show Book Sioux Tribe, S.D. NELSON has written Club pick, and her picture and illustrated numerous children’s books, book for adults, Some- including Black Elk’s Vision, day, was a #1 New York Sitting Bull and Red Cloud. Times bestseller. A profes- A resident of Flagstaff, Ari- sor of creative writing at zona, Nelson uses acrylic Metropolitan State Univer- paint, which he brushes, sity, McGhee has three grown children and sponges, splatters and lives a semi-nomadic life in Minneapolis, sprays to create a contemporary interpreta- Vermont and California. tion of traditional Lakota images.

JIM MCLAIRD taught history at Dakota DAN O’BRIEN has written 14 books, Wesleyan University for 37 years. A special- mostly about the contemporary Ameri- ist in the history of South Dakota and the can West and the environment, including American West, he has published numer- his latest, Great Plains Bison. He has also ous articles on topics such as East River/ taught writing and environmental studies West River differences and the legend of at various universities. The founding owner the “White Mandan” Indians. McLaird’s lat- of Wild Idea Buffalo Company in Rapid City, est book is Hugh Glass: Grizzly Survivor. O’Brien lives on the Cheyenne River Ranch east of the Black Hills. DONALD F. MONTILEAUX is a master ledger artist and storyteller. Following in the Minnesota native and U.S. Army veteran footsteps of his forefathers and mentors TIM O’BRIEN may be best known for like Oscar Howe and Herman Red Elk, he The Things They Carried, a collection of in- creates books with striking images that cap- terrelated short stories in- ture the Lakota way of life. His Tasunka, fea- spired by his experiences in turing both English and Lakota, won four the Vietnam War. His hon- national awards. ors include the 1979 Na- tional Book Award for the DOUG MURANO is co-editor of the novel Going After Cacciato, horror anthologies Gutted: Beautiful Hor- a Guggenheim fellowship, an award from ror Stories and Shadows Over Main Street. the American Academy of Arts and Letters His first solo editing effort,Behold! Oddi- and two National Endowment for the Arts ties, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, fellowships. O’Brien teaches creative writ- was released in July 2017. His anthologies ing at Texas State University.

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JEAN L.S. PATRICK is the author of sev- kota School of Law faculty since 1984, lish and director of the Great Plains Writers’ eral nonfiction picture books for children, FRANK POMMERSHEIM writes ex- Tour at Mount Marty College in Yankton, including her latest, Long- tensively in the field of Indian law and serves and editor-in-chief of 4 PM Count. He is one armed Ludy and the First on several tribal appellate courts, including of six artists-in-residence with the National Women’s Olympics. Be- those on the Cheyenne River and Rosebud Endowment for the Arts’ interagency initia- sides writing and research- reservations. Those experiences led to his tive with the Department of Justice’s Federal ing, Patrick loves giving most recent book, Tribal Justice: 25 Years Bureau of Prisons. presentations and teach- as a Tribal Appellate Justice. Pommersheim ing writing to all age levels, is also a poet; his latest chapbook is Local South Dakota State Poet Laureate LEE from preschoolers to senior citizens. Patrick Memory and Karma (The Buddha Corre- ANN RORIPAUGH is the author of four lives near Mitchell with her husband and spondence, Vol. 2). volumes of poetry, includ- more animals than she can count. ing Dandarians and On Castlewood native CHUCK RAASCH the Cusp of a Dangerous The creator of the sports romance, SUSAN earned a journalism degree from South Year. She is a Professor of ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Dakota State University in English at the University of is the only four-time recipi- 1976. He worked at the South Dakota, where she ent of the Romance Writ- Huron Plainsman and the serves as Director of Cre- ers of America’s prestigious Sioux Falls Argus Leader ative Writing and Editor-in-Chief of South Favorite Book of the Year before becoming one of Dakota Review. Award. Often called the five original cover story “Queen of Romantic Com- writers for USA TODAY, As Archivist and Collections Manager for edy,” Phillips is a hiker, lazy gardener, hor- as well as a national correspondent and the City of Deadwood and the Deadwood rible singer, passable cook, passionate read- political columnist for Gannett. He is now Historic Preservation Commission, MI- er, wife, mother of two grown sons and Washington correspondent for the St. Louis CHAEL RUNGE has worked on numer- grandmother. Post-Dispatch. ous projects that embody the city’s constant vigilance in preserving its cultural heritage. A member of the University of South Da- JIM REESE is associate professor of Eng- His book, Deadwood’s Mount Moriah Cem-

20 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS etery, is the first attempt to provide a picto- bachelor’s degree in journal- rial narrative of the cemetery’s development. ism from South Dakota State University in Brookings. He J. RYAN STRADAL is the author of has worked for newspapers Kitchens of the Great Midwest, the 2017 in Worthington, Minneso- One Book South Dakota. A Minnesota na- ta and Mitchell, and is now tive, Stradal lives in Los Angeles, where he an enterprise reporter for the Rapid City is an editor-at-large at Unnamed Press, fic- Journal. He lives in Rapid City with his wife, tion editor at The Nervous Breakdown and Shelly, and their children, Kaylie and Lincoln. co-producer and host of the literary/culinary series Hot Dish. Author/illustrator CHRIS VAN DUSEN brings humor, adventure, lively language FAITH SULLIVAN is the and colorful, kinetic illustrations to all of his author of eight novels in- children’s books. Along with cluding Gardenias, The drawing Kate DiCamillo’s Cape Ann, What a Woman Mercy Watson and others, Must Do, and, most recent- he has created several unfor- ly, Good Night, Mr. Wode- gettable literary characters, house. A demon gardener, flea marketer including Mr. Magee (and and feeder of birds, she is also an indefati- his trusty dog, Dee) and King Hugo (the roy- gable champion of literary culture and her al with the big ego). He lives in Maine with fellow writers, and has visited with hun- his wife, two sons and, naturally, a dog. dreds of book clubs. Born and raised in southern Minnesota, Sullivan lives in Min- JERRY WILSON was born west of the neapolis with her husband, Dan. Cimarron River in Oklahoma, near the homesteads two of his great-grandfathers Denver resident J.G. “JERRY” SWED- claimed in the 1892 Run into Cheyenne LUND was born and raised in South Da- Arapaho land, an event featured in Across kota, not far from where his the Cimarron. He has worked as a farm- book, Rustler on the Rose- hand, gas station attendant, carpenter, bud, is set. He experienced preacher, teacher, journalist and managing cowboy life at his grandfa- editor of South Dakota Magazine. He and ther’s ranch near the White his wife, Norma, live in a geo-solar house on River. As an adult, Swedlund a Missouri River bluff near Vermillion. traveled the world, serving in Vietnam and Germany as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. RUBY R. WILSON, co-editor of Poetry Army and working for 30 years in Europe of Presence, has published three chapbooks. as a program manager focused on informa- Her work has been featured tion technology. in invitational exhibits such as P3 (Painters, Poets & Pavil- Lexington, Kentucky native WHITNEE ion) and included in antholo- THORP lives in Box Elder and teaches at gies including Crazy Woman Oglala Lakota College on Creek. An archivist for South the Pine Ridge Indian Reser- Dakota State University Archives & Special vation. She earned her MFA Collections, she lives on an acreage in rural in Creative Writing from the Brookings County with her husband. Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky Universi- GENE LUEN YANG is the National Am- ty. Her chapbook Cicurate won the South bassador for Young People’s Literature. He Dakota Poetry Society’s annual chapbook has written and drawn many graphic nov- contest, and her chapbook Kintsukuroi was els, including American Born Chinese. His published in July 2017. graphic novel set Boxers and Saints won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has also SETH TUPPER, author of Calvin written for the hit comics Avatar: The Last Coolidge in the Black Hills, grew up in Wess- Airbender and Superman. ington Springs and Kimball and earned a

21 YOUNG READERS FESTIVAL For general inquiries about the Young Readers Festival, call Jen- nifer Widman, Director of the South Dakota Center for the Book, (605) 688-5715. CHALLENGE GRANT THE SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL has been awarded a $100,000 federal matching grant to advance a Young Readers Initiative that has already provided more than 12,000 books to elementary students around the state. SDHC’s dedication to ex- tending outreach to underserved communities played a significant Young Readers role in the selection of its Young Readers Initiative Expansion proj- ect for the highly competitive National Endowment for the Humani- One Book ties (NEH) Humanities Access grant. This year, SDHC will give away more than SDHC exceeded its first fundraising goal, raising more than $50,000 and receiving the NEH match for $50,000. We are now 3,000 copies of the 2017 Young Readers working to meet our second goal of raising another $50,000 by May One Book, Adventures on Deckawoo Drive: 1, 2018. To assist with that effort, please visit sdhumanities.org. Volumes 1-3 by Kate DiCamillo, to students in 14 school districts across the state. At the Young Readers Festival, illustrator Chris Van HOW WILL YOUR Dusen, will present drawing demonstrations GIFT IMPACT OUR and discuss his work with third-graders who received the book. STUDENTS? • With NEH matching funds At least 10 other children’s and YA authors at 1:1, your gift will have and illustrators will also speak to students TWICE the impact and fans of all ages in Rapid City and the Deadwood area Sept. 21-23, 2017. Our • We’ll have $200,000 to fund collaborators — First Bank & Trust, United Way the Young Readers program of the Black Hills, Campaign for Grade-Level for three years Reading, Rapid City Area Schools, • We will use the funds to John T. Vucurevich continue the program and Foundation and expand it to elementary students on all nine South Dakota Northern Hills American Indian reservations and to Spanish-speaking Federal Credit English Language Learners Union — are • We’ll diversify our students’ experiences by choosing a helping us provide tribal author for the 2019 One Book children’s books, student resources • We will bring more authors — and experiences — to South and author Dakota students presentations.

22 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS 23 KEY: CHILDREN’S/Y.A. | FICTION | HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING NON-FICTION | POETRY | WRITERS’ SUPPORT | SPECIAL EVENT WEDNESDAY, Sept. 20 Dahl Arts Center Racing Magpie & Seed Theater Rapid City Rapid City 5 – 7 One Book SD Author Tour Event - J. pm Ryan Stradal - TICKET REQUIRED (Contact [email protected] or 605- 688-6113) 7 – 9 Women Behaving Badly: Then pm & Now - Karen Abbott & Susan Elizabeth Phillips TICKET REQUIRED - purchase at the Dahl ($10 in advance or $15 at the door) THURSDAY, Sept. 21 Deadwood Historic Rapid City Welcome Homestake Public Library Center Opera House Deadwood Lead Rapid City 10 – 10:45 Cartooning for Kids of All am Ages - Mike Artell 11 – 11:45 NOTE: Young Readers Native American Stories & am authors and illustrators Songs - Joseph Bruchac will visit schools in Rapid City all day Thursday. 12:30 – Long-armed Ludy and the 1:15 pm First Women’s Olympics - Jean Patrick

1:30 – Start with an Idea, Finish 2:15 pm with a Book - Donald F. Montileaux

4:30 – Tales from Deckawoo Drive: Creating the 2017 5:30 pm 5-6 pm - What Young Readers One Book Authors Look - Chris Van Dusen Forward to at the Festival - William Kent Krueger, Sandra Brannan, Pete Dexter, Karen Abbott & More 6:30 – 9 Author Reception - pm TICKET REQUIRED ($50)

Times and presenters subject to change. Check Festival Survivor’s Guide (available at Ex- hibitors’ Hall information booth or online at www.sdbookfestival.com) for updates. To purchase tickets for meals and workshops, please visit www.sdbookfestival.com.

24 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS 25 FRIDAY, Sept. 22 KEY: CHILDREN’S/Y.A. | FICTION | HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING | NON-FICTION | POETRY | WRITERS’ SUPPORT | SPECIAL EVENT

Deadwood Mountain Grand Deadwood Public Library Franklin Martin Mason Hotel Tatanka – Lead Lead Sturgis Hotel 1898 Ballroom Story of the Historic Homestake Sanford Lab Community Event Center Prospector Room Hotel Conference Bill’s Backstage Bar Main Floor Downstairs Emerald Bison Opera House Homestake Center Room Room Visitor Center 9 – 10 NOTE: Young Readers authors 9:15-10:00 - The am and illustrators will visit Monster Who Ate schools throughout the North- the State - Chris 9:30-10:45 - ern Hills all day Friday. Browne Joseph Bruchac 10 – (Workshop) (Workshop) Writing SDPB Live Broadcast - In (Workshop) Creative (Workshop) Author Talk & 10:30-11:15 - Tales from 11 am Researching and What You DON'T the Moment Book Club Writing Kickstart - Get Published Tatanka Tour Deckawoo Drive - Chris Van Pitching Narrative Know: Writing and with Festival Authors Alison McGhee - Now - Jim Dusen speaks to third-graders Nonfiction - Karen Research Beyond the TICKET REQUIRED Reese - TICKET 11 am Abbott & Denise Desk - Patrick Hicks ($20) REQUIRED 11-12:15 - S.D. 11:00-11:45 - The – 12 Kiernan - TICKET - TICKET REQUIRED ($20) Nelson Author Talk Monster Who Ate pm REQUIRED ($20) ($20) & Tatanka Tour the State - Chris Browne 12 pm 12:30-1:15 - Tales from 12:30-1:45 - Don- Deckawoo Drive - Chris Van ald F. Montileaux Dusen speaks to third-graders 1 pm EXHIBITORS' HALL OPENS Author Talk & 1:30 Toy Boxes, Libraries & Writing from Art Why the Humanities: Building Themed (Workshop) Tatanka Tour – 2:15 Footbridges: An Au- and Family Stories - Its Role in Restoring Anthologies from the Heirlooms: pm thor's Journey - Heather Heid Erdrich Civility to Democ- Ground Up: From Creative Life Gudenkauf racy - SDHC Board Ideation to Promotion Writing - Members - Doug Murano Molly Barari 2:30 What Does the Natural To Hell and High Creating Poetry of Words as Barriers to - TICKET World Ask of Us? - Water: Walking in Presence: A Conver- Communication - Law- REQUIRED – 3:15 ($20) pm Robin Wall Kimmerer the Footsteps of an sation with the Edi- rence Diggs Australian Literary tors - Phyllis Cole-Dai Icon - Gregory Bryan & Ruby R. Wilson 3:30 EARLY BIRD BOOK pm SIGNINGS (until 4:15) 4:30 Tales from Deckawoo – 5:15 Drive: Creating the pm 2017 Young Readers One Book - Chris Van Dusen 5:30 5:30 - EXHIBITORS’ Authors, Appetizers & Apéritifs - – 7:15 HALL CLOSES The Bill of Rights: Liberty through 6:00 - Big Read pm Limits - David Azerrad, Joseph Bot- Reception tum, Frank Pommersheim, Chuck 7-8:30 - The Musicians of 7:00 - Reflec- Raasch - TICKET REQUIRED ($35) Brementown Melodrama Per- tions on The 7:30 Friday Night Fiction: formance by Flower & Flame Things They – 8:15 Life's Too Short to Read Carried - Tim pm Depressing Books - Su- O'Brien san Elizabeth Phillips

8:30 Open Mic - spon- – 9:30 sored by the South pm Dakota State Poetry Society

26 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS Times and presenters subject to change. Check Festival Survivor’s Guide (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.

Deadwood Mountain Grand Deadwood Public Library Franklin Martin Mason Hotel Tatanka – Lead Lead Sturgis Hotel 1898 Ballroom Story of the Historic Homestake Sanford Lab Community Event Center Prospector Room Hotel Conference Bill’s Backstage Bar Main Floor Downstairs Emerald Bison Opera House Homestake Center Room Room Visitor Center 9 – 10 NOTE: Young Readers authors 9:15-10:00 - The am and illustrators will visit Monster Who Ate schools throughout the North- the State - Chris 9:30-10:45 - ern Hills all day Friday. Browne Joseph Bruchac 10 – (Workshop) (Workshop) Writing SDPB Live Broadcast - In (Workshop) Creative (Workshop) Author Talk & 10:30-11:15 - Tales from 11 am Researching and What You DON'T the Moment Book Club Writing Kickstart - Get Published Tatanka Tour Deckawoo Drive - Chris Van Pitching Narrative Know: Writing and with Festival Authors Alison McGhee - Now - Jim Dusen speaks to third-graders Nonfiction - Karen Research Beyond the TICKET REQUIRED Reese - TICKET 11 am Abbott & Denise Desk - Patrick Hicks ($20) REQUIRED 11-12:15 - S.D. 11:00-11:45 - The – 12 Kiernan - TICKET - TICKET REQUIRED ($20) Nelson Author Talk Monster Who Ate pm REQUIRED ($20) ($20) & Tatanka Tour the State - Chris Browne 12 pm 12:30-1:15 - Tales from 12:30-1:45 - Don- Deckawoo Drive - Chris Van ald F. Montileaux Dusen speaks to third-graders 1 pm EXHIBITORS' HALL OPENS Author Talk & 1:30 Toy Boxes, Libraries & Writing from Art Why the Humanities: Building Themed (Workshop) Tatanka Tour – 2:15 Footbridges: An Au- and Family Stories - Its Role in Restoring Anthologies from the Heirlooms: NOTE: To sign your students up for Friday field trips, pm thor's Journey - Heather Heid Erdrich Civility to Democ- Ground Up: From Creative Life Gudenkauf racy - SDHC Board Ideation to Promotion Writing - contact Jennifer Widman, Director of the South Members - Doug Murano Molly Barari Dakota Center for the Book, (605) 688-5715. 2:30 What Does the Natural To Hell and High Creating Poetry of Words as Barriers to - TICKET World Ask of Us? - Water: Walking in Presence: A Conver- Communication - Law- REQUIRED – 3:15 ($20) pm Robin Wall Kimmerer the Footsteps of an sation with the Edi- rence Diggs Australian Literary tors - Phyllis Cole-Dai Icon - Gregory Bryan & Ruby R. Wilson 3:30 EARLY BIRD BOOK pm SIGNINGS (until 4:15) 4:30 Tales from Deckawoo – 5:15 Drive: Creating the pm 2017 Young Readers One Book - Chris Van Dusen 5:30 5:30 - EXHIBITORS’ Authors, Appetizers & Apéritifs - – 7:15 HALL CLOSES The Bill of Rights: Liberty through 6:00 - Big Read pm Limits - David Azerrad, Joseph Bot- Reception tum, Frank Pommersheim, Chuck 7-8:30 - The Musicians of 7:00 - Reflec- Raasch - TICKET REQUIRED ($35) Brementown Melodrama Per- tions on The 7:30 Friday Night Fiction: formance by Flower & Flame Things They – 8:15 Life's Too Short to Read Carried - Tim pm Depressing Books - Su- O'Brien san Elizabeth Phillips

8:30 Open Mic - spon- – 9:30 sored by the South pm Dakota State Poetry Society

27 SATURDAY, Sept. 23 KEY: CHILDREN’S/Y.A. | FICTION | HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING | NON-FICTION | POETRY | WRITERS’ SUPPORT | SPECIAL EVENT

Deadwood Mountain Grand Deadwood Public Library Masonic Temple Franklin Hotel Deadwood City Martin Ma- Homestake Adams Main Floor Emerald Room Hall son Hotel Adams Research & Museum Event Center Prospector Room Hotel Conference Room Main Floor Downstairs 1898 Ballroom Cultural Center

9 – 9:45 am Understanding the Arab Uprising The Thresher: A Conversations on Race & Following James Time Management for Kintsukuroi: A Read- Nonfiction Writing Sioux Women of (Workshop) Writing Through and the Rebirth of the Shi'a-Sunni New Introduction to Ethnicity in South Dakota Meredith’s 1966 Writers: or, Getting Your ing - Whitnee Thorp for Magazines - Rob South Dakota - Seven Decades: No Matter Divide - Geneive Abdo Herb Krause's Clas- - SDHC Board Member March Against Butt in the Seat and Your Fleder, Paul Higbee & Virginia Driving What Happens - Linda Has- sic - Patrick Hicks Whitney Rencountre & Fear - Ann Bau- Fingers on the Keyboard Jerry Wilson Hawk Sneve selstrom - TICKET REQUIRED SDHC Grantees Rosie sum - Sandra Brannan ($20) - A copy of the author's Sprague, Rob Timm & latest book is included in the Christine Van Ness ticket price. 10 – 10:45 Storytelling, Setting and Sulfur Root Causes of Rac- Why Do We Mythologize Dear County Agent Growing Up After The Kitchen House: Revisiting Gazing Writers' Groups: Indigenous Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Con- The World's Largest am Springs - William Kent Krueger ism and a Proposal War? - Chuck Raasch Guy: A Farmer Funny: My Life What Happens Next? - and Imagery: A Craft Optional or Essential? Knowledge for tinuing Laura's Story - Nancy Roundup, 1902 - for Rooting It Out - Becomes an Author - as a Cartoonist - Kathleen Grissom Talk - South Dakota - Marilyn Johnson & Sustainability Tystad Koupal, SD Historical Richard Carr Lawrence Diggs Jerry Nelson Chris Browne State Poet Laureate Faith Sullivan - Robin Wall Kim- Society Press Lee Ann Roripaugh merer 11 – 11:45 Kitchens of the Great Midwest - J. How a Structural Perfume River and Writing Around the World in Developing Kate Hooked on Humor: Mike Poetry, Law & the The Loneliness of the The Life, Career Writing In and About the Mid- Mount Moriah am Ryan Stradal Engineer Became the Aftermath of War - 12 Events: A Dozen DiCamillo's Mercy Artell Constitution - Frank Long-Distance Writer and Influence west - Joseph Bottum, Patrick Cemetery: Dead- an Author - Varian Robert Olen Butler Items from the Sports Watson Char- Pommersheim - Alison McGhee of Paul Goble - Hicks & Jon Lauck wood's Boot Hill Johnson Bucket List - Rob acters Through Gregory Bryan & - Mike Runge Fleder Illustrations - Chris S.D. Nelson Van Dusen 12 – 12:45 We Need Diverse Books - Gene The Girls of Atomic Homecoming and Healing: A Dumpster Full of From Idea to Great Plains Bison: His- Curator of Ephem- Building a World, One Brothers of the The Quips of Governor Tom Rustler on the pm Luen Yang, National Ambassador City: Life in a Secret Helping Veterans Write Books: Loving Books Book: Bringing tory, Ecology and Sym- era: A Reading and Book at a Time - Ann Buffalo - Joseph Berry: Laughing through the Rosebud: Writing for Young People’s Literature City of the Manhat- Their Way Home - Ron and Disposing of Stories to Life - bolism - Dan O'Brien Poem Films - Heid Charles Bruchac Dust Bowl - Paul Higbee the Life of Jack Sully tan Project - Denise Capps Them Responsibly - Don Montileaux Erdrich - Jerry Swedlund Kiernan Marilyn Johnson 1 – 1:45 pm BOOK SIGNINGS 2 – 2:45 pm Black Elk’s Legacy in South Dakota Recreating History The Festival of Books: A Spreading the News: The Collector of Living Vicariously through Writing Ugly: How Screening & Hugh Glass: History vs. Hype - The Journal and & Beyond - Philip Deloria, Virginia through Fiction - Cultural Icon for Humani- How to Promote Your Names: Stories Crime Fiction: How Much to Write Anywhere, Discussion - Jim McLaird the Sketchbook - Driving Hawk Sneve & S.D. Nelson Jerry Wilson ties & Arts – SDHC Board Book - Faith Sullivan from the Midwest Research Makes It Feel Anytime and Under Patchwork on Martin Garhart Member Russell McKnight - Patrick Hicks Real? - Sandra Brannan, Any Circumstances - the Prairie - Mary joined by SD arts & hu- Ann Charles & William Heather Gudenkauf Fitzgerald & manities leaders Kent Krueger Stephanie Rissler, 3 – 3:45 pm Readings by Winners of the Celebrating Poetry Scoundrels and Rogues Connecting with Developing Eth- James Madison’s First Getting Out of the SDPB Calvin Coolidge in the Black Researching Amaz- Veterans Writing Prize (beginning of Presence: A (In Fiction and Fact) - Pete the Criminal in Your ics for a Cyber Amendment: Its Origin Slush Pile: What Edi- Hills - Seth Tupper ing Women's His- with the presentation of the 2017 Reading - Phyllis Dexter & Rob Fleder Classroom: 10 Years Society - Joseph and Meaning - David tors Are Looking For tory: Where Do You Distinguished Achievement in the Cole-Dai, Ruby in Prison and What Bottum & Chuck Azerrad - Doug Murano Go When Books Humanities Awards) - Robert Olen Wilson, Linda Inmates Teach Me - Raasch and Google Come Butler Hasselstrom, Lydia Jim Reese Up Short? - Jean Whirlwind Soldier & Patrick Others 4 pm EXHIBITORS' HALL CLOSES 4 – 5:15 pm 5:30 – 6:45 Special Screening of the PBS Docu- 4 – 5:30 pm Deadwood Mountain Grand Lead Historic Homestake Opera House pm mentary The Vietnam War, followed Bill’s Backstage Bar by discussion with Ron Capps & The Magic of Mark Twain Melodrama Happy Hour for Readers & Performance by Flower & Flame Vietnam veterans Larry Mayes, Brad Writers featuring Literary Loot! Morgan & Craig Tschetter

7 – 7:45 pm Timmy and Tad and Papa and I: 8 – 9 pm Discussing Writing in General and Deadwood Mountain Grand Prospector Room Responding to Hemingway in Poetry Readings by Dakota Women Writers - spon- Particular - Tim O'Brien sored by the South Dakota State Poetry Society 28 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS Times and presenters subject to change. Check Festival Survivor’s Guide (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.

Deadwood Mountain Grand Deadwood Public Library Masonic Temple Franklin Hotel Deadwood City Martin Ma- Homestake Adams Main Floor Emerald Room Hall son Hotel Adams Research & Museum Event Center Prospector Room Hotel Conference Room Main Floor Downstairs 1898 Ballroom Cultural Center

9 – 9:45 am Understanding the Arab Uprising The Thresher: A Conversations on Race & Following James Time Management for Kintsukuroi: A Read- Nonfiction Writing Sioux Women of (Workshop) Writing Through and the Rebirth of the Shi'a-Sunni New Introduction to Ethnicity in South Dakota Meredith’s 1966 Writers: or, Getting Your ing - Whitnee Thorp for Magazines - Rob South Dakota - Seven Decades: No Matter Divide - Geneive Abdo Herb Krause's Clas- - SDHC Board Member March Against Butt in the Seat and Your Fleder, Paul Higbee & Virginia Driving What Happens - Linda Has- sic - Patrick Hicks Whitney Rencountre & Fear - Ann Bau- Fingers on the Keyboard Jerry Wilson Hawk Sneve selstrom - TICKET REQUIRED SDHC Grantees Rosie sum - Sandra Brannan ($20) - A copy of the author's Sprague, Rob Timm & latest book is included in the Christine Van Ness ticket price. 10 – 10:45 Storytelling, Setting and Sulfur Root Causes of Rac- Why Do We Mythologize Dear County Agent Growing Up After The Kitchen House: Revisiting Gazing Writers' Groups: Indigenous Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Con- The World's Largest am Springs - William Kent Krueger ism and a Proposal War? - Chuck Raasch Guy: A Farmer Funny: My Life What Happens Next? - and Imagery: A Craft Optional or Essential? Knowledge for tinuing Laura's Story - Nancy Roundup, 1902 - for Rooting It Out - Becomes an Author - as a Cartoonist - Kathleen Grissom Talk - South Dakota - Marilyn Johnson & Sustainability Tystad Koupal, SD Historical Richard Carr Lawrence Diggs Jerry Nelson Chris Browne State Poet Laureate Faith Sullivan - Robin Wall Kim- Society Press Lee Ann Roripaugh merer 11 – 11:45 Kitchens of the Great Midwest - J. How a Structural Perfume River and Writing Around the World in Developing Kate Hooked on Humor: Mike Poetry, Law & the The Loneliness of the The Life, Career Writing In and About the Mid- Mount Moriah am Ryan Stradal Engineer Became the Aftermath of War - 12 Events: A Dozen DiCamillo's Mercy Artell Constitution - Frank Long-Distance Writer and Influence west - Joseph Bottum, Patrick Cemetery: Dead- an Author - Varian Robert Olen Butler Items from the Sports Watson Char- Pommersheim - Alison McGhee of Paul Goble - Hicks & Jon Lauck wood's Boot Hill Johnson Bucket List - Rob acters Through Gregory Bryan & - Mike Runge Fleder Illustrations - Chris S.D. Nelson Van Dusen 12 – 12:45 We Need Diverse Books - Gene The Girls of Atomic Homecoming and Healing: A Dumpster Full of From Idea to Great Plains Bison: His- Curator of Ephem- Building a World, One Brothers of the The Quips of Governor Tom Rustler on the pm Luen Yang, National Ambassador City: Life in a Secret Helping Veterans Write Books: Loving Books Book: Bringing tory, Ecology and Sym- era: A Reading and Book at a Time - Ann Buffalo - Joseph Berry: Laughing through the Rosebud: Writing for Young People’s Literature City of the Manhat- Their Way Home - Ron and Disposing of Stories to Life - bolism - Dan O'Brien Poem Films - Heid Charles Bruchac Dust Bowl - Paul Higbee the Life of Jack Sully tan Project - Denise Capps Them Responsibly - Don Montileaux Erdrich - Jerry Swedlund Kiernan Marilyn Johnson 1 – 1:45 pm BOOK SIGNINGS 2 – 2:45 pm Black Elk’s Legacy in South Dakota Recreating History The Festival of Books: A Spreading the News: The Collector of Living Vicariously through Writing Ugly: How Screening & Hugh Glass: History vs. Hype - The Journal and & Beyond - Philip Deloria, Virginia through Fiction - Cultural Icon for Humani- How to Promote Your Names: Stories Crime Fiction: How Much to Write Anywhere, Discussion - Jim McLaird the Sketchbook - Driving Hawk Sneve & S.D. Nelson Jerry Wilson ties & Arts – SDHC Board Book - Faith Sullivan from the Midwest Research Makes It Feel Anytime and Under Patchwork on Martin Garhart Member Russell McKnight - Patrick Hicks Real? - Sandra Brannan, Any Circumstances - the Prairie - Mary joined by SD arts & hu- Ann Charles & William Heather Gudenkauf Fitzgerald & manities leaders Kent Krueger Stephanie Rissler, 3 – 3:45 pm Readings by Winners of the Celebrating Poetry Scoundrels and Rogues Connecting with Developing Eth- James Madison’s First Getting Out of the SDPB Calvin Coolidge in the Black Researching Amaz- Veterans Writing Prize (beginning of Presence: A (In Fiction and Fact) - Pete the Criminal in Your ics for a Cyber Amendment: Its Origin Slush Pile: What Edi- Hills - Seth Tupper ing Women's His- with the presentation of the 2017 Reading - Phyllis Dexter & Rob Fleder Classroom: 10 Years Society - Joseph and Meaning - David tors Are Looking For tory: Where Do You Distinguished Achievement in the Cole-Dai, Ruby in Prison and What Bottum & Chuck Azerrad - Doug Murano Go When Books Humanities Awards) - Robert Olen Wilson, Linda Inmates Teach Me - Raasch and Google Come Butler Hasselstrom, Lydia Jim Reese Up Short? - Jean Whirlwind Soldier & Patrick Others 4 pm EXHIBITORS' HALL CLOSES 5:30 – 6:45 Special Screening of the PBS Docu- pm mentary The Vietnam War, followed by discussion with Ron Capps & Vietnam veterans Larry Mayes, Brad Morgan & Craig Tschetter 7 – 7:45 pm Timmy and Tad and Papa and I: Discussing Writing in General and Responding to Hemingway in Particular - Tim O'Brien

29 SUNDAY, Sept. 24 KEY: CHILDREN’S/Y.A. | FICTION | HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING | NON-FICTION | POETRY | WRITERS’ SUPPORT | SPECIAL EVENT Deadwood Mountain Grand Rapid City Public Library Event Center Hotel Conference Room Rapid City 9 – 9:45 Tips for Writers from am Authors: In three one- hour discussion sessions 10 – Book Lovers' Brunch - Ticket Required ($20) that highlight organizing, 10:45 am editing, and publishing, 11 – What's So Great About Grass? How Writing local authors and publishers 11:45 am about the Grasslands Can Help to Protect Them will share insights about - Dan O'Brien & Linda Hasselstrom writing. 2 – 2:45 Writing Without Walls - Gene Luen Yang, Na- pm tional Ambassador for Young People’s Literature EXHIBITORS’ HALL Located in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Event Center and open from 1 to 5:30 pm on Friday and 9 am to 4 pm on Saturday. AUTHORS Bill Markley, Pierre, SD, billmarkley.com Ex Machina Publishing Company, Kirby Anderson, Sturgis, SD Sioux Falls, SD, exmac.com Shawn McGuire, Brown Bag Books, Terry Anderson, Spearfish, SD, Parker, CO, shawn-mcguire.com Hidden Timber Books, Milwaukee, WI, tessalynnebook.com hiddentimberbooks.com James D. Patterson, Rapid City, SD, Kimberlee Ann Bastian & Julien Bradley, jdp199.wixsite.com/jdpatterson Pure Persona Publishing, Milton, IN, Winona, MN, kimberleebastian.wixsite. purepersonapublishing.co com/elementodysseys Bruce Roseland, Seneca, SD South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby R. Wilson, J.E. Terrall, Books by Terrall, Custer, SD Museum Press, Brookings, SD, agmuseum.com Bruce, SD, poetryofpresencebook.com Craig Tschetter, Brookings, SD, Betsy DeLoache, Red Bird Studio, fifteenminutesago.com South Dakota Historical Society Press, Pierre, SD, sdhspress.com Pierre, SD, redbirdstudiosd.com Christine Mager Wevik, Beresford, SD, Brenda Donelan, Pierre, SD, itsonlyhairbook.com University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, nebraskapress.unl.edu brendadonelan.com Jason Willis, Lura Publications, Mapleton, Nancy Todd Engler, Rapid City, SD, MN, lurapublications.com Usborne Books & More, Deadwood, SD morethanpresidents.com BOOKSELLERS & PUBLISHERS ORGANIZATIONS Rebecca Fjelland Davis, Mankato, MN, Alternating Current Press, Louisville, CO, Booth Society/D.C. Booth Fish Hatchery, rebeccafjellanddavis.com press.alternatingcurrentarts.com Spearfish, SD, dcboothfishhatchery.org

George Gilland & Sharon Rasmussen, The Bird Cage Book Store & Mercantile, Deadwood Historic Preservation, Dead- Thunder Hawk Project, Timber Lake, SD Rapid City, SD, wordcarrier.com wood, SD, www.cityofdeadwood.com

Nathan D. Gjovik, Rapid City, SD Books 4 Kids Program, Hayti, SD, Literacy Council of the Black Hills, Rapid B4KProgram.org City, SD, literacycouncilblackhills.org Dillon Haug, Spearfish, SD Books-A-Million, Rapid City, SD, South Dakota Hall of Fame, Chamberlain, Joanna Jones, Jones Literature, Spearfish, booksamillion.com SD, sdexcellence.org SD, jonesliterature.com Center for Western Studies, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Michelle Lamphere, Rapid City, SD Sioux Falls, SD, augie.edu/cws Vermillion, SD, sdpb.org

Lisa Lechowicz, Native American ABC, Dakota West Books, Rapid City, SD, South Dakota State Poetry Society, Omaha, NE, nativeamericanabc.com dakotawestbookseller.com sdpoetry.org

Jonas Lee, Rapid City, SD, jlfiction.com Dakotafire Media & Prairiesummer Books, Western Writers of America, Frederick, SD, dakotafire.net westernwriters.org Adrian Ludens, Rapid City, SD, adrianludens.com

30 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

CELEBRATING 15 YEARS! September 21–24, 2017 Rapid City & Deadwood www.sdbookfestival.com 605-688-6113

$75,000 ENDOWMENT $20,000+ FESTIVAL PRESENTING PARTNERS LEGACY PARTNER

$10,000+ FESTIVAL PRESENTING PARTNERS

$5,000+ TRIBUTE SPONSORS

$1,000+ FESTIVAL & ENDOWMENT DONORS The Ament Group at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management | Black Hills Energy | Sandra Brannan Sherry & Tom DeBoer | Dan & Arlene Kirby | James & Kathy McMahon* | Steven & Kathy Sanford* Jerry & Gail Simmons | David Strain/Dakota West Books Orval Van Deest, in honor of Violet Van Deest | Margaret Cash Wegner* (* indicates endowment support)

$10,000+ YOUNG READERS 1:1 CHALLENGE MATCH $50,000 Gerry Berger Law

YOUNG READERS 1:1 CHALLENGE MATCH $5,000 $1,000+ Avera McKennan | Sheryl & Terry Baloun $5,000+ Pete & Jacqualyn Fuller | Mildred Hugghins | Dr. Han & Bang Kim ENDOWMENT Jason & Tatum McEntee | John & Kathy Miller DONORS A special thanks to all of the donors and volunteers who support South Dakota Humanities Council programs. Dan & Arlene Kirby SAVE THE DATE: Judith & Mark 16TH ANNUAL SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS Meierhenry WEEKEND OF SEPTEMBER 15TH OR SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2018, SIOUX FALLS AND BROOKINGS Tom & Jean Nicholson