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TELLING OUR STORIES When Nevada Humanities founded the Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl six years ago, we had no idea that it would grow to be the premier literary event in northern Nevada. Now with nearly 100 authors from across the Silver State and beyond, readings, workshops, book signings, activities for young people, and an Epilogue After Party to beat the band, we are thrilled to see the event mature and thrive.

We are honored to welcome writer Kiese Laymon to the Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl this year. Laymon’s book, Heavy: An American Memoir, is a 2019 Nevada Reads selection. He will be addressing the themes in his book—identity, art, friendship, and truth-telling—during his keynote address. His personal narrative illuminates systemic failures; its insights providing a glimmer of hope in their honesty.

Join us for this talk, and I will join you as we Crawl the streets of Reno! Nevada Humanities/Jessi LeMay

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FAMILY WORKSHOP FOOD INFORMATION PERFORMANCE FRIENDLY OR ACTIVITY AVAILABLE DESK FOR PURCHASE

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MY NEVADA DRAWING I SPY WITH MY LITTLE Join artist and Nevada EYE: SCAVENGER HUNT Humanities Program Manager Beginning at the Downtown Bobbie Ann Howell to create Reno Library at 11:00 am your own one-of-a-kind work and 1:00 pm, participate in a on paper prepared with a layer family storytime, and then start your of red iron oxide Nevada soil. scavenger hunt adventure across the Nevada Museum of Art, 3rd Floor, 160 Literary Crawl route. Find clues at West Liberty Street, 10:00 am-4:00 pm multiple venues throughout the day with a prize at the end. Scavenger FAMILY READ-ALONG hunt books can be picked up at the Downtown Reno Library (until 2:00 AND CRAFT pm), the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Caregivers and children can Discovery Museum, Sundance Books read together from an I Spy and Music, the Nevada Museum of book and make a craft as part Art, and Arts for All Nevada at the of the Literary Crawl scavenger Lake Mansion. hunt. Additional hands-on Downtown Reno Library, 301 South activities abound. Center Street, 11:00 am and 1:00 pm Downtown Reno Library, 301 South Center Street, 11:00 am and 1:00 pm

KEYNOTE EVENT: 12:00–1:00PM

Listen to writer Kiese Laymon discuss Heavy: An American Memoir, a powerful story about complicated families, race in America, and employing art and truth to create healthier and more honest relationships. A Q&A session will be moderated by Nasia Anam, and a book signing will follow the keynote event. Heavy: An American Memoir is a 2019 Nevada Reads book.

Nevada Museum of Art, Nightingale Sky Room, 160 West Liberty Street from 12:00 – 1:00 pm; this event is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are available online at nevadaart.org and at the museum while supplies last. 5 CHAPTER 1: 1:30–2:30PM

FAMILY READ-ALONG DINNER IS SERVED AND CRAFT Featuring edible Reno- BODIES! Caregivers and children can Tahoe’s managing editor, From cadavers to read together from an I Spy Jessica Santina, writer Sandra embodiment, experience book and make a craft as Macias, and photographer Shea new work by University of Nevada, part of the Literary Crawl Evans, this panel will highlight what Reno master of fine arts graduate scavenger hunt. Additional goes into developing and producing students and faculty. Listen to five- hands-on activities abound. magazine content that reflects the minute stories and poems all about Downtown Reno Library, 301 South region, supports local food-and-drink the body. Center Street, 1:00 pm producers and purveyors, and makes Washoe Public House, 275 Hill Street, people hungry. 1:30-2:15 pm Great Basin Community Food Co-op, NORTHERN NEVADA 240 Court Street, 1:30-2:15 pm BOOKIN’ WITH VETERANS WRITING SUNNY PROJECT HUMANITIES IN PRISONS Learn how to write a Part of the David J. Drakulich Why are classes in literature, poetry, stellar book review and join in the Foundation for Freedom of music, art, theatre, and history so conversation about the importance of Expression’s mission is to improve powerful, sometimes even life- supporting other writers’ work. Come healing and reintegration outcomes saving, in prison settings? Teachers ready to read, write, and respond. of military and military-connected share stories about their experiences Featuring: Brandy Burgess, Sunny communities through the arts, working in prisons. Featuring: Susan Solomon, and Joanne Mallari. humanities, and recreation. Listen as Chandler, Shaun Griffin, and Erica E.L. Cord Museum School, Nevada veterans share their stories and their Wirthlin. Do you have books or Museum of Art, 160 West Liberty Street, voices. Featuring: Larry Dawson, Rob writing materials you would like to 1:30-2:15 pm Garrett, Eric Hobson, Julie King, and donate to prison students? Bring Noël Lipana. your donations today (no wire-spiral Old World Coffee, 104 California notebooks, please). THE BELIEVER AND NON- Avenue, 1:30-2:15 pm Pignic Pub & Patio, 235 Flint Street, FICTION PUBLISHING 1:30-2:15 pm Speak with Daniel Gumbiner HAIKU MADLIBS: and Niela Orr as they discuss MUZZLED WORDS their experiences editing The LETTERPRESS PRINTING What books can and can’t be read in Believer magazine. WITH BLACK ROCK PRESS prison? Moderated by Lydia Huerta, E.L. Cord Museum School, Nevada Remember MadLibs? In listen to novelist and journalist Museum of Art, 160 West Liberty Street, collaboration with Black Ahmed Naji read and discuss his 1:30-2:15 pm Rock Press and Reno Bike work, including the passages that Project, come pull and play a sent him to jail. MadLib haiku print, and then Arts for All Nevada at the Lake Mansion WHO ARE WE AND write a little message on its (pavilion), 250 Court Street, 1:30-2:15 pm WHERE ARE WE back. Send your note along with a Parking available behind building. GOING? Reno Bike Project courier for delivery Take a quick walking tour with to an unsuspecting stranger. Let the someone who doesn’t know the word games begin! way. Featuring Leslie Carol Roberts, Sundance Books and Music, 121 author of Here is Where I Walk: California Avenue, 1:30-3:30 pm Episodes From a Life in the Forest. Meet at the Lake Mansion to start the adventure. Arts for All Nevada at the Lake Mansion (pavilion), 250 Court Street, 2:15-2:30 pm

6 CHAPTER 2: 2:30–3:30PM

HAIKU MADLIBS: FAMILY MATTERS FROM FIRST DRAFT TO LETTERPRESS PRINTING Stories of love, grief, and LAST CHORD hope about the people in Every songwriter has their own WITH BLACK ROCK PRESS our lives that we just don’t Remember MadLibs? In unique process for creating. get to choose. Featuring: Cyndy Vancouver-based songwriter/ collaboration with Black Rock Cendagorta, Joanne Mallari, and Press and Reno Bike Project, recording artist Tariq will Niela Orr. share some of his strategies come pull and play a MadLib Great Basin Community Food Co-op, haiku print, and then write and approaches to craft that 240 Court Street, 2:30-3:15 pm created the 10 tracks found on his a little message on its back. Send your note along with a Reno most recent album. For budding to Bike Project courier for delivery to an TALL TALES experienced lyricists, composers, unsuspecting stranger. Let the word Listen to Naseem Jamnia and musicians, or anyone who likes songs. games begin! Ellen Klages in readings and E.L. Cord Museum School, Nevada Museum of Art, 160 West Liberty Street, Sundance Books and Music, 121 conversation about writing 2:30-3:15 pm California Avenue, 1:30-3:30 pm for young adults and retelling stories to make the old new again. Pignic Pub & Patio, 235 Flint Street, INTERACTIVE THIS SIDE OF THE 2:30-3:15 pm STORYTELLING DIVIDE: STORIES OF THE If you think that interactive, AMERICAN WEST WILD CARDS participatory fiction is the Listen to authors who write with keen From a series of science fiction-y, future of storytelling, then this perception about the lives, work, superhero, shared-universe workshop is for you. Take part aspirations, fears, and ethnic roots anthologies (and more), the Wild in a role-playing game with of the diverse population west of the Cards series is edited by none other author, narrative designer, and Continental Divide. Moderated by than George R.R. Martin. Come listen Dungeons & Dragons specialist Danilo Thomas and featuring: Siân to some of the authors who are part Ashley Warren and participate in Griffiths, Mark Maynard, and Miranda of the club. Featuring: David Durham a fantastical Nevada-themed story Schmidt. and Carrie Vaughn. acted out as a group. All ages Old World Coffee, 104 California Arts for All Nevada at the Lake Mansion welcome. Avenue, 2:30-3:15 pm (pavilion), 250 Court Street, 2:30-3:15 pm E.L. Cord Museum School, Nevada Parking available behind building. Museum of Art, 160 West Liberty Street, GRAMPA, WILL YOU TELL 2:30-3:30 pm ME A STORY? A TRIBUTE TO Listen to local cartoonist ADRIAN LOUIS DANCING IN THE STREETS Brian Crane read from his Listen to poets and writers Inspired by the poetry of recent children’s book, read from and reflect on Melanie Perish, Collateral & Co. Grampa, Will You Tell Me a Story? the work of this Nevada-born poet. Contemporary Dance Company Sundance Books and Music, 121 Featuring: Everett George, Shaun presents a dance that explores California Avenue, 2:30-3:15 pm Griffin, Gailmarie Pahmeier, and the Nevada landscape. Lindsay Wilson. Arts for All Nevada at the Lake Washoe Public House, 275 Hill Street, Mansion (pavilion), 250 Court Street, 3:15- 2:30-3:15 pm 3:30 pm

7 CHAPTER 3: 3:30–4:30PM

GRAMPA, WILL YOU TELL Q&A WITH GRAMMAR GIRL NEVADA POETRY NOW ME A STORY? Come with your most pressing Listen to new work by great Listen to local cartoonist Brian questions for Mignon Fogarty, also Nevada poets. Featuring: Crane read from his recent known as “Grammar Girl”. She will Heather Lang-Cassera, children’s book, Grampa, Will know the answer! Gailmarie Pahmeier, and Jared You Tell Me a Story? St. James Infirmary, 445 California Stanley. Sundance Books and Music, 121 Avenue, 3:30-4:15 pm Washoe Public House, 275 Hill Street, California Avenue, 3:30-4:15 pm 3:30-4:15 pm CROSSINGS WRITING BEHIND BARS From straddling cultures to RANTS FROM THE PUB Join a gathering of formerly reconciling religion and sexuality, Michael Branch will read from recent incarcerated Nevada authors to local writers explore how books Rants from the Hill and How experience the power of writing from poetry moves between sites of to Cuss in Western, joined by jazz behind bars. Featuring: Shaun Griffin, contradiction. Featuring: Brandy bassist Hannah Branch, for a session Susan Chandler, Durrell Grier, Ismael Burgess, Elisa Garcia, Joanne Mallari, of words and music in celebration of Santillanes, and Cornell Wilkins, from Garnet Sanford, and Michelle Wait. the relationship between family and Inside/Insight and Razor Wire, two Pignic Pub & Patio, 235 Flint Street, place in the Great Basin Desert. writing workshops at the Northern 3:30-4:15 pm Ceol Irish Pub, 538 South Virginia Street, Nevada Correctional Center. 3:30-4:15 pm Arts for All Nevada at the Lake Mansion KALEIDOSCOPES: (pavilion), 250 Court Street, 3:30-4:15 pm DIVERSITY IN SCIFI THE LEGEND OF 1000 Parking available behind building. They give us a glimpse of far-future COMBAT PAPER CRANES and magical places, but do science Come to this workshop to learn QUEERSTORIAS fiction and fantasy novels offer more about military service, and Learn about activism, organizing, and readers another lens through which help construct origami cranes storytelling happening at the local to view our own world? Featuring: using combat paper (made from and national levels among queer David Durham, Maggie Shen King, military uniforms). and trans people of color. Featuring: and Carrie Vaughn. E.L. Cord Museum School, Nevada Lydia Huerta, Anthony Martínez, and 1864 Tavern, 290 California Avenue, Museum of Art, 160 West Liberty Street, Felicia Perez. 3:30-4:15 pm 3:30-5:30 pm The Loving Cup, 188 California Avenue, 3:30-4:15 pm. Venue is 21+. WHO ARE WE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING? Take a quick walking tour with someone who doesn’t know the way. Featuring Leslie Carol Roberts, author of Here is Where I Walk: Episodes From a Life in the Forest. Meet at the pub to start the adventure. Pignic Pub & Patio, 235 Flint Street, 4:15-4:30 pm

8 CHAPTER 4: 4:30–5:30PM

THE ANXIOUS MIND A WOMAN’S WORK IS When your mind is racing, take a deep NEVER DONE breath and listen to these writers and Poet Vi Khi Nao shares her poets. Featuring: Stacy Gnall, Lauren work alongside historical Levin, and David Rondel. documents read by archivist 1864 Tavern, 290 California Avenue, Kimberly Roberts. 4:30-5:15 pm Washoe Public House, 275 Hill Street, 4:30-5:15 pm LAS VEGAS WRITES Las Vegas was built on countless POETRY MEETS DANCE disasters—bad turns of the cards, Use dance as a means for inspiration unfortunate rolls of the dice. Join in a in this workshop that explores discussion of Live Through This, the the way words can coexist with ninth volume in the Las Vegas Writes and impact bodily expression. series, which extends the dynamic Collateral & Co. Contemporary of unnatural disasters beyond the Dance Company will perform a gambling halls and into the streets, short excerpt from their recent homes, and eccentric spaces of Las work, “Dust Settled.” A poet and a Vegas. Featuring: co-editors Scott choreographer will lead participants Dickensheets and Geoff Schumacher, through conversation and drafting of as well as contributors C. Moon Reed, a poem. Featuring: Matthew Baker Lissa Townsend Rodgers, and Kristy and Caitlin McCarty. This workshop Totten. will culminate in a simultaneous St. James Infi rmary, 445 California dance performance and live reading. Avenue, 4:30-5:15 pm Writers and non-writers alike are welcome to participate or observe. NO PLACE LIKE HOME Nevada Museum of Art, Wayne and On the rez, in our minds, and with Miriam Prim Theater, 160 West Liberty our legacies, this panel showcases Street, 4:30-5:15 pm thoughts and writings on place and home. Featuring: Everett George, Amy Kurzweil, and Laura Newman. THE LEGEND OF 1000 Arts for All Nevada at the Lake Mansion COMBAT PAPER CRANES (pavilion), 250 Court Street, 4:30-5:15 pm Come to this workshop to learn Parking available behind building. more about military service, and help construct origami cranes using combat paper (made from military THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT uniforms). Come listen to the next young E.L. Cord Museum School, Nevada Rushdie, Morrison, or Didion. Hosted Museum of Art, 160 West Liberty by Youth Writing Program Street, 3:30-5:30 pm director, Christopher Coake. Pignic Pub & Patio, 235 Flint Street, 4:30-5:15 pm WHO ARE WE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING? TELLING RENO’S STORY Take a quick walking tour with someone who doesn’t know the way. FOR PODCASTS AND Featuring Leslie Carol Roberts, RADIO author of Here is Where I Walk: Listen to the often untold stories Episodes From a Life in the Forest. of resilience, survival, and a city in Meet at the pub to start the transition. Featuring: Alicia Barber, adventure. Nico Colombant, Bob Conrad, 1864 Tavern, 290 California Avenue, Anjeannette Damon, and Donald 5:15-5:30 pm Griffi n. Ceol Irish Pub, 538 South Virginia Street, 9 4:30-5:15 pm CHAPTER 5: 5:30–6:15PM

ARE YOU THERE TELLING STORIES FROM GOD? IT’S ME, THE IVORY TOWER BILDUNGSROMAN From the popular Thought on Tap Poetry and prose on coming-of-age team, this panel looks at how scholars and the stuff of childhood. Featuring: are revolutionizing the way they do Gayle Brandeis, George Perreault, their work through the use of video, and June Saraceno. podcasting, and digital platforms as Arts for All Nevada at the Lake Mansion well as increased engagement with (pavilion), 250 Court Street, 5:30-6:15 pm popular culture. Featuring: Katherine Parking available behind building. Fusco, Carlos Mariscal, and Bretton Rodriguez. 1864 Tavern, 290 California Avenue, THE MAN THEY 5:30-6:15 pm WANTED ME TO BE Writings on toxic masculinity. Featuring: Christopher Coake, SPOKEN VIEWS Daniel Gumbiner, and Pan COLLECTIVE SHOWCASE Pantoja. Join us for a showcase of youth and Washoe Public House, 275 Hill adult members of Reno’s spoken Street, 5:30-6:15 pm word collective Spoken Views, emceed by Iain Watson. Pignic Pub & Patio, 235 Flint Street, LOOSE TONGUES 5:30-6:15 pm “Loose tongues” are unrestrained and can be used for various purposes—linguistic, corporeal, and DON’T SKIP OUT ON THIS sensual. Join this discussion on the Join 2019 Nevada Reads author Willy multiple forms of communication Vlautin for a jam session, reading, among Jotería (Queer Brown) and conversation about his newest communities, including voicing book, Don’t Skip Out On Me. taboos and rejecting gender binaries, Ceol Irish Pub, 538 South Virginia Street, the root of Jotería communicative 5:30-6:15 pm practices. Featuring: Lydia Huerta, Macario Mendoza-Carrillo, Ignacio DANCING IN THE STREETS Montoya, and Daniel Enrique Pérez. Inspired by the poetry of Royce, 115 Ridge Street, 5:30-6:15 pm Melanie Perish, Collateral & Co. Contemporary Dance Company presents a dance that explores the Nevada landscape. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Avenue, 6:00-6:15 pm

10 ONGOING EVENTS EPILOGUE MADLIB HAIKUS SAY WHAT? POETRY. Remember MadLibs? In collaboration with Black Rock Four poets competing in three rounds. Original Press and Reno Bike Project, come pull and play a and classic poems by well-known poets. You be MadLib haiku print, and then write a little message the judge. Emceed by Elisa Garcia. Featuring: on its back. Send your note along with a Reno Claire McCully, Shaughn Richardson, Josue Bike Project courier for delivery to an unsuspecting Valadez, and Iain Watson. stranger. Let the word games begin! The Loving Cup, 188 California Avenue, 6:15-7:00 pm. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Avenue, 1:30-3:30 pm Venue is 21+.

EPILOGUE AFTER PARTY Rub shoulders with your favorite authors; get them to sign their books. Live music by Tariq, food trucks, beer, and fi rst-come-fi rst-serve free gelato I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE: by Bibo Freddo Gelato. SCAVENGER HUNT Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Beginning at the Downtown Reno Library at 11:00 am Avenue, 6:30-8:00 pm and 1:00 pm, participate in a family storytime, and then start your scavenger hunt adventure across the Literary Crawl route. Find clues at multiple venues throughout the day with a prize at the end. Scavenger hunt books can be picked up at the Downtown Reno Library (until 2:00 pm), the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, Sundance Books and Music, the Nevada Museum of Art, and Arts for All Nevada at the Lake Mansion. Downtown Reno Library, 301 South Center Street, 11:00 am and 1:00 pm

GO TO THE DOGS Be on the lookout for the BowWow Book Club, Reno/ Sparks Pet Therapy’s literacy program, all around the Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl. Volunteers and their furry friends will be at outdoor locations all day, and you can learn about pet safety and responsible dog ownership while listening, reading, and telling stories. Multiple venues throughout the day.

11 CONTRIBUTORS, UNABRIDGED

Nasia Anam is an assistant professor Stories in Place. Barber is the recipient Inspiration for Women Who Write, of English and global anglophone of the 2014 Silver Pen Award from the and the novels The Book of Dead literature at the University of Nevada, Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, and serves Birds, which won the Bellwether Prize Reno. Her research focuses on on the Nevada Board of Museums and for Fiction of Social Engagement, representations of the Muslim migrant in History. Self Storage, Delta Girls, and My Life postcolonial and colonial literature. She with the Lincolns, a state-wide read in received her doctorate in comparative Hannah Branch is a junior in the Wisconsin. Her novel in poems, Many literature at the University of California, international baccalaureate program at Restless Concerns, will be published Los Angeles, and has since taught at Wooster High School in Reno. She’s a this December. Her poetry, essays, and California Institute of the Arts, Williams national speech and debate competitor short fiction have been published in College, and Princeton University. Her with a passion for writing. She also The New York Times, The Washington writing and reviews have appeared in enjoys music; she plays bass in several Post, O (The Oprah Magazine), The ASAP/Journal, Interventions, Post45 jazz bands and writes her own guitar Rumpus, Salon, Longreads, and more. Contemporaries, Verge: Global Asias, and ukulele music on the side. She is She teaches at Sierra Nevada College Los Angeles Review of Books, and The thankful for Reno’s thriving literature and Antioch University Los Angeles. Aerogram. and arts community, and everyone who supports it. Branch plans to seek Brandy Burgess is an education Matthew W. Baker grew up in a major in English or political science technologist who recently received her Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but currently and pursue a career in political speech master’s degree in religious education lives in Reno and teaches middle writing. from Loyola University, New Orleans. and high school English. He received Burgess also moonlights as a local a master of fine arts degree from Michael Branch writes creative Reno poet and artist. Much of her the University of Nevada, Reno. His nonfiction and humor on the work focuses on the impact of the work has appeared, or will appear, environment and life in the American information age on intergenerational in The Summerset Review, The West. He is the University Foundation communication. When Burgess is not Matador Review, Booth Journal, Professor of English at the University of writing, running, or working, she can Sundog Lit, Yemassee Journal, and Nevada, Reno. His creative nonfiction be found canceling plans to stay home The Meadow, among others, and has includes pieces that have received in bed with Netflix or a good book. been nominated for the Best New Honorable Mention for the Pushcart Poets anthology. His debut chapbook, Prize and been recognized as Notable Cyndy Cendagorta is working on a Undoing the Hide’s Taut Musculature, Essays in The Best American Essays, collection of short stories about broken will be published in October 2019. The Best American Science and Nature things, including bodies, children, Writing, and The Best American faith, and love. She comes from a Alicia Barber, PhD, is a professional Nonrequired Reading. His work has wild Spanish Basque family, and is a historian and award-winning writer appeared in countless magazines special needs mother and disability whose work focuses on the built including Slate, Huffington Post, advocate. She runs a policy consulting environment and cultural history of and Orion. Branch is the recipient of company in Reno, where she was born Nevada and the American West. the Western Literature Association and raised and recently returned to She has produced and hosted the awards for creative writing and humor after 20 years away. Cendagorta holds regular history feature “Time & Place writing, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers a master’s degree in political science with Alicia Barber” for KUNR Public Award, and the Nevada Writers Hall from Washington State University Radio (88.7 FM) since 2017. She is the of Fame Silver Pen Award. His most and is a past Women’s Research and author of Reno’s Big Gamble: Image recent books are Raising Wild, ‘The Education Institute Fellow. Her stories and Reputation in the Biggest Little Best Read Naturalist’: Nature Writings have been published in The Spectacle, City and the co-founder and editor of of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rants from Cagibi, Salmon Creek Journal, Memoir Reno Historical, a map-based smart the Hill, and How to Cuss in Western. Magazine, and Please See Me. She lives phone app and website dedicated to Mike is currently writing a book about in Reno with her husband and three Reno’s history. She holds a doctorate jackalopes. children. in American studies from the University of Texas at Austin and directed the Gayle Brandeis is the author, most University of Nevada Oral History recently, of the memoir The Art of Program at the University of Nevada, Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Reno from 2009 until 2013, when she Suicide and the poetry collection The founded the historical consulting firm Selfless Bliss of the Body. Her other books include Fruitflesh: Seeds of 12 2019 LITERARY CRAWL OFFICIAL MAP 12pm Family Matters 7 Keynote Event: 2 Writer Kiese Laymon Great Basin Community Food Co-Op | 2:30-3:15pm Center St. Nevada Museum of Art Court St. Sierra St. Tall Tales My Nevada Drawing 3 7 Pignic Pub & Patio | 2:30-3:15pm Nevada Museum of Art S. Virginia St. 10:00 am-4:00 pm 1 Wild Cards Arts for All Nevada at the Lake Mansion GREAT BASIN I Spy With My Little Eye: (pavilion) | 2:30-3:15pm COMMUNITY Ryland St. 12 Scavenger Hunt 2 Adrian Louis Tribute FOOD CO-OP Downtown Reno Library 4 Washoe Public House | 2:30-3:15pm 11:00 am & 1:00 pm Pickard Pl. From First Draft to Last Chord ARTS FOR ALL NEVADA AT 7 E.L. Cord Museum School, Nevada 1 DOWNTOWN THE LAKE MANSION 12 RENO LIBRARY Chapter 1: 1:30-2:30pm Museum of Art | 2:30-3:15pm 5 ROYCE Family Read-Along and Craft Interactive Storytelling 12 7 E.L. 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14 Anjeanette Damon is an investigative CONTRIBUTORS CONTINUED reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal. She is the lead reporter on Season 2 Susan Chandler retired in 2013 after 20 Little City. The podcast archives different of The City, a longform investigative years of teaching in the school of social voices and testaments as our society podcast by USA Today that will debut work at the University of Nevada, Reno. quickly shifts and wealth inequalities in late October. Her work has received For the last three and a half years, she has continue to widen. multiple state and regional awards, been teaching classes in creative writing and her investigation into a string and cultural perspectives at the Northern Bob Conrad, PhD, is an entrepreneurial of deaths at the Washoe County jail Nevada Correctional Center, a medium journalist based in Reno. He manages was a finalist for the national Online security state prison. ThisisReno.com, Reno’s online news and events source, which he co-founded Journalism Award. She has a journalism degree from the University of Nevada, Christopher Coake is the author of the in 2009. He earned his doctorate in novel You Came Back and the story educational leadership in 2011 from Reno and a master’s degree in public collection We’re in Trouble, which won the University of Nevada, Reno, where administration from the Harvard the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for he researched media coverage of Kennedy School of Government. a first work of fiction. His new collection, higher education institutions during A longtime Reno resident, she is You Would Have Told Me Not To, will times of crisis and controversy. Conrad committed to shining a light on be published in 2020. In 2007, he was was selected in 2015 to participate in problems that need to be solved and named one of Granta’s Best Young an entrepreneurial journalism training connecting those who can help solve American Novelists. His short fiction has program at the City University of New them. been anthologized in collections such York’s Graduate School of Journalism. is a Utah-based as Best American Mystery Stories 2004, He also works part-time for the Larry L. Dawson, Jr. creative writer, lyricist, poet, and rapper. The Best American Noir of the Century, University of Nevada Cooperative He has written and performed rap with and Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Extension (Mineral County) supporting diligence and inventiveness since the as well as in numerous literary journals. risk management and tribal outreach age of 14. He is ingrained in the culture A native of Indiana, Coake received a programs. of hip-hop, having a deep interest in master’s degree from Miami University graffiti, street language, and street of Ohio and a master of fine arts degree Brian Crane was born in Twin Falls, entrepreneurship. After serving in the from Ohio State University. He is an Idaho, but grew up in the San Francisco United States Army from 1999 to 2016 associate professor of English at the Bay area. He graduated with a degree and retiring with a medical discharge, University of Nevada, Reno, where he in art from Brigham Young University in he got back into writing poetry, directs the master of fine arts program 1973. Crane and his wife, Diana, have including limericks, sonnets, acrostics, in creative writing. lived in Sparks for 35 years. They have seven children and 19 grandchildren. elegiac meter, and haiku. Writing was not a main focus for Dawson during Nico Colombant coordinates the Our He “retired” from his job as an art Town Reno multimedia street reporting director at a Reno advertising agency his service, however, he did receive collective as part of his job as Lecturer in 1990 to devote his full attention to awards and accolades for painting of Digital Media at the Reynolds his daily comic strip, Pickles, which and decorating shoes and articles of School of Journalism at the University features Earl and Opal Pickles, who clothing in hip-hop style for friends and of Nevada, Reno. Following a series of have been married for over 50 years. occasional customers. Dawson draws “in-their-own-words” audio postcards The comic shows the funny side of some of his creative energy from his which aired on KUNR and live journalism family and friendship and is syndicated healing, meditation, and yoga practices events funded by the Association of by The Washington Post Writers Group. and continues to enjoy painting, Independents in Radio in 2018, Our In 2001, Pickles was named Best drawing, pastel, rapping, and writing as Town Reno started its own podcast this Comic Strip of the Year by the National a retired soldier. year to give the microphone directly Cartoonists Society. In 2012 he won is the deputy editor to those affected by rising rents, the Reuben award for Cartoonist of Scott Dickensheets of Desert Companion, the magazine of gentrification, and the higher cost of the Year. Pickles appears in 1000 Nevada Public Radio. Before that, he living, as well as street poets and those newspapers around the world. top-edited Las Vegas CityLife and the helping each other out in the Biggest

15 Las Vegas Weekly, served as managing instructor by day and a sushi chef at Rob Garrett is the president for the editor of Las Vegas Life, and worked in night, he put in over a decade with board of directors of the David J. a number of positions at the Las Vegas sharp knives and cold fish before he Drakulich Foundation for Freedom of Sun. Dickensheets has edited, co- traded in his knife for a camera. You Expression. Born and raised in Reno, edited, or contributed to eight volumes can find his work at www.sheaevans. he earned his bachelor’s degree in of the Las Vegas Writes series, an com. fine arts at the University of Nevada, annual anthology of Southern Nevada Reno. He owned and operated writing published in conjunction with Mignon Fogarty is a New York Times Garrett’s Custom Picture Frames until the Las Vegas Book Festival, where bestselling author best known by her September 11, 2001. Garrett is a he is also a member of the festival’s online persona, Grammar Girl. Fogarty retired disabled veteran, and served literary committee. He served as an is the creator and host of the Grammar 34 years in the Air Force and Nevada assistant editor of the coffee table book Girl podcast and the founder of Quick Air National Guard. His personal art Nevada: 150 Years in the Silver State, and Dirty Tips, which began as a therapy is working primarily in car part the official publication of the Nevada podcasting network and is now also sculpture and upcycled furniture. His sesquicentennial. He lives in Henderson, a large content website, newsletter pieces can be seen at the Reno Town Nevada. publisher, and book publisher. Fogarty Mall or Micano’s in Midtown. is the author of seven books about David Anthony Durham is the author language, including Grammar Girl’s Everett Ray George began writing in of seven novels: The Risen, The Sacred Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing. high school and was encouraged by Band, The Other Lands, Acacia (John She has been featured in the New York his English teacher. He repeated senior W. Campbell Award Winner, finalist for Times, BusinessWeek, USA Today, and year and left without graduating, the Prix Imaginales), Pride of Carthage, more, and has appeared as a guest but eventually received his diploma Walk Through Darkness, and Gabriel’s expert on the Oprah Winfrey Show and from an adult education program. In Story. His stories have appeared in the Today Show. 2015, he wrote a play and formed a four of George R.R. Martin’s Wild theater troupe. The group made their Cards novels: Fort Freak, Lowball, High Katherine Fusco writes about the way storytelling debut at Brüka Theatre. Stakes, and Texas Hold ‘Em. Other different media forms shape identity and They’ve performed yearly ever since. short fiction has been anthologized encourage us to be either cruel or kind George was an intern at the Institute in Unbound, Unfettered, It’s All Love, to one another. She teaches courses on of American Indian Arts master of fine and Gumbo: A Celebration of African film, theory, and 19th and 20th century arts program for a week. He’s also the American Writing. His novels have been American literature at the University of winner of Yale’s Third Annual Young published in French, German, Italian, Nevada, Reno. Fusco has written about Native Playwriting competition and Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, pop-culture for a number of national loser of Reno News and Review’s 95- Spanish, and Swedish. Four of his novels outlets including The Atlantic, Public word fiction contest. He mostly writes have been optioned for development Books, Avidly, and Harper’s Bazaar. at night after work. as feature films. He is currently on the She is also the author of two academic faculty of the Stonecoast master of books and winner of the Modern Stacy Gnall is the author of Heart First fine arts creative writing program of Language Association’s prestigious into the Forest. She holds a doctorate in the University of Southern Maine and William Riley Parker Prize. creative writing and literature from the the master of fine arts creative writing University of Southern California, and program at the University of Nevada, Elisa Garcia is a Mexican-American is also a graduate of the University of Reno. He has also worked as a writer/ spoken word poet from Los Angeles, Alabama’s master of fine arts program consultant on several TV shows. California. She coached the first Reno in creative writing and Sarah Lawrence team at Brave New Voices in 2016. College. She currently teaches in both Shea Evans is a former professional She competed in the National Poetry the core humanities program at the chef turned food culture photographer, Slam with the first Reno team, Spoken University of Nevada, Reno and Truckee with clients ranging from regional food Views Collective. Currently, Garcia is the Meadows Community College, and is businesses to national brands. He director of Sierra Literary Cooperative at work on her second book project. majored in Asian history and Japanese and hosts the quarterly variety show Lit Poems from this manuscript have language at the University of Vermont at Nite. She teaches poetry workshops been published in Colorado Review, before graduating and heading west. at local high schools and performs at Crazyhorse, The Massachusetts Review, In Tahoe, working as a snowboard events with Spoken Views Collective. She New American Writing, Third Coast, and resides in Reno with her kung fu fighting Another Chicago Magazine. partner Doug, and their tiny black panther Elvira.

16 Durrell S. Grier was born in Los over three decades, he and his wife, from Southern Illinois University. Howell Angeles. He currently lives in Las Vegas, Deborah Loesch-Griffin, have lived in works from her studio, B.E.S.T. Arts 4 U, which he considers home. He loves Virginia City. Griffin also serves on the in Las Vegas. Her works are exhibited in writing. As a child growing up, he often Nevada Humanities Board of Trustees. regional and national exhibitions, and felt socially awkward, or even as a social in 2018 she received the Nevada Arts leper. He had problems communicating Siân Griffiths lives in Ogden, Utah, Council Visual Art Fellowship Award. his thoughts and ideas to others. where she teaches creative writing However, he realized that he could at Weber State University. Her work Lydia Huerta holds a joint faculty always communicate better through has appeared in The Georgia Review, position in the Gender, Race, and writing. He discovered that with words Prairie Schooner, Cincinnati Review, Identity Program and the Department of you can create a reality that is yours American Short Fiction (online), Indiana Communication Studies at the University to wield, especially with poetry. In his Review, and The Rumpus, among of Nevada, Reno. Huerta specializes in 33 years on this planet, he has learned other publications. Her debut novel 20th and 21st century cultural studies of that the literary arts expose an essential Borrowed Horses was a semi-finalist the Americas, with an emphasis on the element of creation itself that he does for the 2014 VCU Cabell First Novelist relationship between social media, film, not experience anywhere else. Award. Her second novel Scrapple and and narratives about the US/Mexico her short fiction chapbook The Heart border. Her primary research examines Donald Griffin is an alcoholic, addict, Keeps Faulty Time are forthcoming in the cultural production created in and former criminal. He lost his home 2020. Currently, she reads fiction as response to the women-killings in and his children to these issues, but a part of the editorial team at Barrelhouse Ciudad Juárez since 1993. Other housing-first model that helped him and American Short Fiction. For more research interests focus on migration, get into a safe living situation allowed information, please visit sbgriffiths.com specifically LGBTQ migrants and those him to get clean and begin to rebuild that are forced to return to Mexico; his life. Now a spoken word poet and Daniel Gumbiner is the managing Brazil and gender-focused education; community activist, Griffin volunteers editor of The Believer and the author of and more broadly on social movements, with a number of organizations, The Boatbuilder, which was longlisted border studies, cultural narratives and including Vocational Opportunities for for the National Book Award and a public policies created in the United Inclusive Career Education (VOICE) finalist for the California Book Awards. States, Mexico, and Brazil that call and Acting in Community Together in He lives in Oakland, California. attention to specific forms of gendered Northern Nevada (ACTIONN), in order and racially driven violence such as to change the narrative about people Eric Hobson writes what he calls ‘catch sexual violence, femicide, and missing/ like himself and to help expand the and release’ poetry. He writes for his murdered indigenous women. opportunities that got him clean and understanding and amusement and, off the streets. His gift, which he calls when satisfied with the result, destroys Naseem Jamnia is a freelance writer the poet’s curse, bridges gaps and the poem. Hobson has enjoyed poetry and editor, educator and activist for takes readers to a different level of all of his life and written for most of his marginalized individuals, and former reality, separating them from the mind, adult years. Recently, he reached a point scientist. They’re the coauthor of body, and soul. His writing, which where he felt the need to ‘go public’ with Positive Interactions with At-Risk includes pieces like Reno Matrix and his writings. He has been published in O Children, the 2018 Bitch Media Fellow Who Does the City Belong To?, defies Dark Thirty, an online literary journal for in Technology, and a 2019 Lambda easy interpretation and questions veterans and their families, and has won Literary Retreat Fellow. Their work has mainstream conceptions of normalcy. awards on the local level and nationally. appeared in The Rumpus, Bitch Media, Griffin challenges his audience in He is a retired high school- and college- The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, every sense of the word, and uses level teacher. Hobson is a disabled and other sites, and they’re the his work to give voice to Reno’s most Vietnam veteran who lives in Reno with managing editor for Sidequest.Zone, marginalized communities. his wife of 51 years. an indie gaming criticism website. A Chicago native, Jamnia is now a Shaun T. Griffin co-founded and Bobbie Ann Howell is a program master of fine arts in fiction student at directed Community Chest, a rural social manager for Nevada Humanities based the University of Nevada, Reno, where justice agency for 27 years. His most out of the Nevada Humanities Program they live with their spouse, dog, and recent book, Because the Light Will Not Gallery in Las Vegas where she works two cats. For more information visit Forgive Me—Essays from a Poet, was statewide on programs and projects www.naseemwrites.com. released by the University of Nevada with her Nevada Humanities colleagues. Press in 2019. Anthem for a Burnished Howell is from Nevada and grew up in Julie King served in the Army from Land, a memoir, was released in 2016. Lee Canyon and Las Vegas. She earned 1974-1978. She is a Vietnam Era non- He edited From Sorrow’s Well—The a bachelor of fine arts degree from combat veteran who used her GI bill Poetry of Hayden Carruth, in 2013. This Abilene Christian University in Abilene, to attend the University of Nevada, Is What the Desert Surrenders, New and Texas, and received a master of fine Reno, where she earned both her Selected Poems, came out in 2012. For arts degree in sculpture and drawing bachelor’s and master’s degrees in

17 English. King taught English classes Ohioana Book Award. Her novella, receives support from the National at Western Nevada College, Fallon Passing Strange, won the World Fantasy Endowment for the Arts. Lang-Cassera Campus, from 1989-2011. She is and British Fantasy awards in 2018. Her serves as world literature editor for The also a former Nevada Humanities’ short fiction has been translated into a Literary Review, faculty advisor for 300 Humanities On The Road speaker and dozen languages and been nominated Days of Sun, and editor-in-chief for participated in the Nevada Women’s for or won multiple Hugo, Nebula, Tolsun Books. At Nevada State College, Legacy: 150 Years of Excellence project Locus, Mythopoeic, and World Fantasy Lang-Cassera teaches creative writing, and publication published in 2014. In awards. Klages lives in San Francisco, world literature, and more. Find her at 2014, she participated in the Northern in a small house full of strange and www.heatherlang.cassera.net Nevada Veterans Writing Project. wondrous things. Much of her writing from that project Kiese Laymon is a black southern explores her own and other women’s Amy Kurzweil is a cartoonist for The writer from Jackson, Mississippi. In his military experiences and how those New Yorker and the author of Flying sharply observant, often hilarious work, experiences shaped them. Currently, she Couch: A Graphic Memoir (a New York Laymon does battle with the personal is working with the David J. Drakulich Times Editor’s Choice and Kirkus Best and the political: race and family, Art Foundation on the Dialogue of Memoir of 2016). Her writing, comics, body and shame, poverty and place. War project to examine women’s and cartoons have also appeared in His bestselling memoir, Heavy: An war experiences through literature, The Believer, Longreads, Literary Hub, American Memoir, won the Carnegie discussion, and other humanities The Toast, Shenandoah, Hobart, and Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction resources. many other places. Her work has been and the Christopher Isherwood Prize nominated for a Reuben Award, and for Autobiographical Prose, and was Maggie Shen King is the author of An she’s received fellowships and honors shortlisted for the 2018 Kirkus Prize Excess Male, one of The Washington from The Norman Mailer Center, for Nonfiction. Heavy was named a Post’s 5 Best Science Fiction and MacDowell, and Djerassi. Kurzweil best book of 2018 by the New York Fantasy Novels of 2017, and a James teaches widely, and she is currently in Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Tiptree, Jr. and Lambda Literary Award residence as a Shearing Fellow with the Buzzfeed, The Washington Post, Finalist. She was Goodreads September Black Mountain Institute. Entertainment Weekly, and more. It 2017 Debut Author of the Month. Her is a 2019 Nevada Reads book. He is short stories have appeared in the Heather Lang-Cassera is Clark County, also the author of How to Slowly Kill New York Times, Ecotone, ZYZZYVA, Nevada’s current Poet Laureate. She Yourself and Others in America, and Asimov’s Science Fiction, and more. Her holds a master of fine arts degree Long Division. He is the Ottilie Schillig manuscript Fortune’s Fools won second in poetry with a certificate in literary Professor of English and creative prize in Amazon’s 2012 Breakthrough translation. In 2017, she was named Las writing at the University of Mississippi, Novel Award. King grew up in Taiwan Vegas’ Best Local Writer or Poet by the and has taught at Vassar College and and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area readers of KNPR’s Desert Companion. the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His next with her family. Her poems have been published by The novel, And So On, will be published in Normal School, North American Review, 2020. Ellen Klages is the author of three Pleiades, and South Dakota Review, acclaimed historical novels: The Green among other literary journals, and they Lauren Levin is a poet and mixed- Glass Sea, which won the Scott O’Dell have been on exhibit at the Nevada genre writer, author of The Braid and Award and the New Mexico Book Humanities Program Gallery and the Justice Piece // Transmission. With Award; White Sands, Red Menace, Left of Center Art Gallery. Lang-Cassera Emji Spero, Levin was a developmental which won the California and New edited Legs of Tumbleweeds, Wings editor for We Both Laughed in Pleasure: Mexico book awards; and Out of Left of Lace, an anthology of literature by The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, Field, which won the 2019 Children’s Nevada women, a project supported, in edited by Ellis Martin and Zachary History Book Prize and the 2019 part, by the Nevada Arts Council, which Ozma, and with Eric Sneathen, they are editing Camille Roy’s selected prose.

18 Their gender identity is some mix of Joanne Mallari is a Filipino-American, Anthony Martinez is a senior studying belated queer, Jewish great-aunt, and Reno-based poet. She earned a master political science and international affairs aspirational Frank O’Hara. They are still of fine arts degree in creative writing and Spanish language and society. figuring it out. They live in Richmond, from the University of Nevada, Reno. Martinez is currently the president of the California, are from New Orleans, She currently works at Upward Bound, student government at the University of Louisianna, and are committed to queer a federally funded college preparatory Nevada, Reno. Some of the initiatives art, intersectional feminism, being a program that serves first-generation and he has achieved include creating the parent, and grappling with anxiety. low-income students. Mallari’s poetry Department of Diversity and Inclusion, has appeared in journals including working to create an LGBTQIA+ Noël Lipana is the vice president Crab Orchard Review, Palimpsest, inclusive floor in the Residence Halls, for the board of directors of the The Meadow, The MacGuffin, and and his research for queer and trans David J. Drakulich Art Foundation. Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, which people of color organizations through Dr. Lipana also designs moral injury nominated her work for a Pushcart the McNair Scholars Program. In his healing at Quiet Terrain, LLC, which Prize. She is a contributing writer for early career, Martinez was the appointed uses performing arts to educate bookinwithsunny.com, and she is at student member to the Nevada State communities about moral injury and work on her first collection of poems, Board of Education, his position in trauma. He earned his doctorate in Daughter Tongue. Mallari is the 2019 the Nevada Association of Student social work at the Suzanne Dworak- Nevada Humanities Poet-in-Residence. Councils. Martinez’s main priorities are Peck School of Social Work at the synthesizing and actualizing the ideas University of Southern California where Carlos Mariscal is a philosopher of his peers, supporting their success he did work-study at their Center for of science focusing on the origins on campus, and helping to equip every Innovation and Research on Veterans of life, universal biology, and the student with the skills for success after and Military Families. Lipana is a philosophy of astrobiology. He has a their time at the university. service-connected disabled-veteran bachelor’s degree from New Mexico and has served in joint assignments at State University, a doctorate from Mark Maynard is an English and the strategic, operational, and tactical Duke University, and was a Herzberg creative writing professor at Truckee levels. His twenty years in the Air Force postdoctoral fellow in Dalhousie Meadows Community College. His and California National Guard include University from 2014 to 2016. He linked short story collection Grind a tasking as a counter-improvised has been an assistant professor in was chosen as the 2017-2018 Nevada explosive device operator. The units the Philosophy Department at the Reads book. He is a recipient of a to which he was attached conducted University of Nevada, Reno ever 2019 Nevada Arts Council Fellowship full spectrum counter insurgency since, with appointments in the for Literary Arts, and his work has operations in Southern Afghanistan in ecology, evolution, and conservation appeared in Lunch Ticket, The 2007 and 2008. He has also participated biology program, and the integrative Nottingham Review, Tahoe Blues, and in multiple civil support missions in neuroscience program. His work has The Films of Clint Eastwood: Critical California and Louisiana. been published in both scientific Perspectives from the University of journals and philosophy journals and he New Mexico Press. His story “Last Call Sandra Macias began her career as an has an edited anthology forthcoming at the Smokestack Club” appears in English teacher in the Washoe County from Oxford University Press. His public the anthology This Side of the Divide: School District. She taught junior high outreach includes speaking to the Contemporary Stories of the American students for five years before taking a Northern Nevada Science Alliance, West. Maynard was the recipient of job at Hug High School, becoming a Caveat, and Science Distilled, as well as the 2015 Nevada Writers Hall of Fame member of the first faculty of the brand- being a co-founder of Thought on Tap. Silver Pen Award. He lives in Reno, new school. She taught English and Nevada, with his wife, Molly, and their journalism classes and was the advisor five children. of Soar, the student newspaper, though she had never taken a journalism class Caitlin McCarty is a writer, dancer, in college. Macias later landed a cub dance teacher, and choreographer. reporter job with the Reno Gazette- McCarty is passionate about the Journal. She has written for edible intersection of literacy and dance Reno-Tahoe as a freelancer since its and employs poetry and prose in her inception 10 years ago. She is proud choreographic work and teaching to be one of the magazine’s founding strategies. She began her dance training contributors. in classical ballet at The Conservatory of Movement and graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in English writing and a minor in dance, where

19 she received the College of Liberal Ignacio Montoya is an assistant Laura Newman is a 2019 finalist in Arts Dean’s Award for Performance professor at the University of Nevada, LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short and Artistry upon the conferral of Reno. He earned his doctorate in Fiction. She is a many-time winner of her undergraduate degree. After linguistics at the City University of New the Reno News & Review short fiction graduation, McCarty moved to New York. For his dissertation, he offered contest, including a first-place win York City where she worked as an a novel analysis of word structure in in 2019. Her second book of short associate for Gallim Dance overseeing Hebrew, Navajo, and Spanish using a stories, The Franklin Avenue Rookery the company’s education program, theoretical approach that challenged for Wayward Babies, will soon be touring, and development. She is a basic assumptions of the dominant available. Newman’s first book, Parallel freelance writer and contributor to framework of the field. Montoya’s to Paradise, won the Poynter’s Global Dance Magazine’s online publication. current research interests include a Ebooks gold award for short stories. focus on indigenous languages of North One of the stories was accepted for the Claire McCully has worked as a America. Since arriving in Reno in 2017, Huffington Post’s 50 Fiction Series. The seasonal firefighter, in public libraries, he has been studying Northern Paiute Reno Gazette-Journal included Parallel and is currently a professor of English at and has been working with members to Paradise on their “Bucket List” of Western Nevada College. Much of her of the Native American community to top books by Nevada authors or about time and energy is devoted to raising preserve and fortify the local Indigenous Nevada. A bit of her work has been her two sons. After trying to live as a languages: Northern Paiute, Washo, boycotted by the Catholic League. man for the first 40 years of her life, she and Shoshone. Prior to embarking on finally decided to become her authentic his doctoral program, Ignacio was an Niela Orr is a deputy editor of The self and transition to her true gender. As elementary and middle school teacher, Believer, a columnist at The Baffler, a result, she has become an advocate working in a variety of classroom and contributing editor of The Organist of transgender rights. She has recently settings in Los Angeles and New York podcast. A 2019 Eleanor Kagi Foundation given a TED Talk on her transition from City. He remains strongly committed Writer-in-Residence at the Black Mountain male to female, competed in Reno’s to education at all levels as a means of Institute, her writing has appeared in The Literary Death Match, and her poetry empowering marginalized communities. New York Times Book Review, BuzzFeed, has most recently appeared in Trampset, Elle, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, and The Kokanee, and The Normal School. Ahmed Naji is a writer from Egypt McSweeney’s Quarterly. who is currently living in Las Vegas, Macario Mendoza-Carrillo studies where he is a fellow at Black Mountain Gailmarie Pahmeier teaches creative art and linguistics at the University of Institute. His work explores many writing and contemporary literature Nevada, Reno. In the past, Mendoza- different themes, including sci-fi, Islamic courses at the University of Nevada, Carrillo was involved in leadership roles methodology, sex, friendship, prison Reno, where she has been honored that help empower other students at literature, music, magic, and masculinity. with the University Distinguished Truckee Meadows Community College. His novel Using life was shortlisted at Teacher Award. She is also on the Today, he is actively conducting research Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards faculty of the low-residency master and working on revitalization efforts on 2018 among the Best Tales of a of fine arts program at Sierra Nevada the indigenous languages of the area. Fantastic Future. It was also the reason College. Her work has been widely He works side by side with members of he was sentenced to two years in prison published in literary journals and the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Pyramid in Egypt for obscenity and disturbing anthologies. She is the author of Lake Tribe, and his mentor Dr. Ignacio public morals. Naji spent one year in the poetry collections The House on Montoya to promote and encourage prison and was honored with the PEN/ Breakaheart Road and The Rural Lives the use of the Northern Paiute language Barbey Freedom to Write Award in the of Nice Girls and three chapbooks. (Numu) in the public. In a most recent United States in 2016. She is a former National Literary project, he began to make children’s Panelist for the YoungArts Foundation, books by working with the elder Ralph Vi Khi Nao is the author of three poetry and her literary awards include a Burns. He also manages the facebook collections; Sheep Machine, Umbilical Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship, three page ‘Poonetas’, where he and his team Hospital, and The Old Philosopher artists fellowships from the Nevada work together to teach others about the (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014); Arts Council (including the prestigious Numu culture and his Mexican heritage. the short stories collection A Brief Major Project Fellowship), and the Mendoza-Carrillo has found a passion Alphabet of Torture (which won FC2’s Governor’s Award for Excellence in for the language and culture that he Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize the Arts. In 2015, she was appointed hopes he can pass it down to his Numu in 2016); and a novel, Fish in Exile. Her Reno’s first Poet Laureate, in 2016, she family. He says, “By learning our past we work includes poetry, fiction, film, and was inducted into the Nevada Writers can understand who we are and where cross-genre collaboration. Her stories, Hall of Fame, and in 2017, she was we came from.” poems, and drawings have appeared awarded the Outstanding Teaching of in NOON, Ploughshares, Black Warrior the Humanities Award from Nevada Review, and BOMB, among others. Nao Humanities. holds a master of fine arts degree in fiction from Brown University. 20 Pan Pantoja is a poet with Spoken and journals in the US, Canada, Ireland, history at Colorado State University and Views Collective and a cited author with England, and India, and have been has a master’s degree in the history of LaRue Press. He is the executive artist nominated for both the Pushcart and photography, landscape, and science at the Potentialist Workshop in Reno. Best of the Net awards. Perreault has from the University of Nevada, Reno, Pantoja is the 2019 City of Reno’s Poet published four full-length collections where she is the photograph curator in Laureate. He is an independent fi lm and of poetry, including All the Verbs for Special Collections. stage producer and director and is in a Knowing from Black Rock Press at traveling band called Weapons of Mass the University of Nevada, Reno. His Leslie Carol Roberts is professor and Creation. Pantoja loves teaching and most recent book, Bodark County, is chair of master of fi ne arts writing at is proud to be a Nevada Arts Council a collection of poems in the voices of California College of the Arts (CCA) Artists in Schools + Communities Roster various characters living on the Llano in San Francisco. She is also faculty for arts education. He is an artist in Estacado in West Texas. with the Architectural Ecologies Lab at residence at Squaw Valley Academy. CCA, where she founded the ecopoesis Cindi Moon Reed is a sixth-generation movement with Adam Marcus and Daniel Enrique Pérez is the Associate Texan writer with coastal aspirations. Chris Falliers, which explores embodied Dean of Diversity and Inclusion for the She never meant to make a life in messaging around climate change. College of Liberal Arts, and an associate Las Vegas. Weeks turned into years Leslie is the author of Here Is Where professor of Chicanx and Latinx when she discovered a kindred spirit I Walk: Episodes from a Life in the literature at the University of Nevada, in this upstart town. From trolling red Forest and The Entire Earth and Sky: Reno. His research and writing centers carpets for celebrity gossip to writing Views on Antarctica, and a chapter in on the intersections of gender, ethnicity, in-depth feature stories, short plays, the forthcoming book, Performing Ice. and sexuality, especially concerning and slightly self-indulgent personal A Fulbright Fellow, she is an affi liated queer Chicanx and Latinx identities. He essays, Reed has explored the kitschy researcher with the Humanities and is a scholar and creative writer who often yet endearing pioneer spirit of the Silver Social Sciences Group/Scientifi c incorporates poetry into his scholarly State. Formerly the founding arts and Committee on Antarctic Research. Her work, and vice versa. In addition to entertainment editor of Vegas Seven essays and journalism on food, design, his book, Rethinking Chicana/o and magazine and an assistant director at Antarctic tourism, travel, and the Latina/o Popular Culture, he has Black Mountain Institute, Reed is now sciences have been widely published in published several articles, essays, and a staff writer for the Las Vegas Weekly. the United States and abroad. poems in his fi eld. He is also the editor She was thrilled to take part in the 9th- of a collection of plays entitled Latina/o annual Las Vegas Writes anthology. Lissa Townsend Rodgers was born in Heritage on Stage: Dramatizing Reed she hopes to fi nally write a book the same region of New York state Heroes and Legends. of her own one day or, barring that, that gave us Eleanor Roosevelt and strike it rich writing for television. Ed Wood. She spent most of her life Felicia Perez is a public speaker, in New York City, where she edited educator, and author, and currently Shaughn Richardson is an educator and wrote for a number of magazines works as the Innovation Director with and artist who has lived in Northern and websites. She then moved to Las the Center for Story-based Strategy. Nevada since he was a teen. He Vegas, where she edited and wrote for Her previous organizing and member attended the University of Nevada, a number of magazines and websites, support experience includes work for Reno, earning both a bachelor’s degree winning three Nevada Press Association the American Civil Liberties Union in psychology and a master’s degree in awards. She is currently working on (ACLU) of Southern California, the education. He currently teaches social a non-fi ction book about gangster California “No On Prop 21” campaign, studies at Washoe Inspire Academy, women to come out with Huntington Californians for Justice, University of serves on the board of directors at the Press in 2020. California Santa Barbara External Vice Holland Project, is a member of the President of Statewide Affairs, and Chair Spoken Views Poetry Collective, and Bretton Rodriguez is a specialist in of the National Queer Students of Color serves on the Reno Arts and Culture the literature, history, and culture of Caucus/board member of the United Commission. In his free time, he is medieval and early modern Iberia. States Student Association (USSA). Perez an emcee in the band 7-Out, and His research focuses on the use and holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology produces a podcast centered around manipulation of the past in medieval from the University of California, Santa artists and other community leaders in histories, as well as epics, romances, Barbara and a master’s degree in Reno. He is also a supporting member and history plays. Rodriguez uses curriculum and instruction. of Reno’s only community radio station, the skills of both literary criticism and KWNK, where he produces a weekly historical inquiry to examine how George Perreault has worked as a hip-hop radio show. these narratives served as political visiting writer in Montana, New Mexico, propaganda in support of specifi c rulers, and Utah, but has called Reno home Kimberly Roberts grew up all over dynasties, communities, and ideas. for over 20 years. His poetry and essays the American West, but mainly in He is a teaching assistant professor have appeared in dozens of anthologies Colorado. She studied literature and of core humanities at the University

21 of Nevada, Reno. Prior to coming to G. J. Sanford is a queer trans poet and June Sylvester Saraceno is the author Nevada, Rodriguez worked as a visiting writer from Nevada’s high desert. Her of the novel Feral, North Carolina, 1965, assistant professor of humanities at work has appeared, or is forthcoming, forthcoming in September 2019, and Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, and he in River Styx, Potomac Review, Lady/ The Girl From Yesterday, forthcoming earned a doctorate in literature from the Liberty/Lit, The Meadow, Rust + Moth, in January 2020. She has two previous University of Notre Dame. and others. In 2019, her poem “A Fire collections of poetry in print: of Dirt and in Douglas” was selected by judge Kim Tar and Altars of Ordinary Light, as well David Rondel is an associate professor Addonizio as a fi nalist in december as a chapbook of prose poems, Mean of philosophy at the University magazine’s Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Girl Trips. She serves as humanities of Nevada, Reno. He teaches an Prize and appeared in the magazine’s and English department chair at Sierra assortment of undergraduate and May issue. She received a master of Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, where she graduate courses in his areas of fi ne arts degree from the University of teaches in the undergraduate and master specialization (social, political, and legal Nevada, Reno in 2019, and currently of fi ne arts in creative writing programs. philosophy and American pragmatism), resides in a tiny apartment with her tiny She is the director of the literary speaker and has published widely in these feline muse, Finn. series Writers in the Woods, and areas. In addition to many journal founding editor of the Sierra Nevada articles and book chapters, he is the Ismael Santillanes, author of Indelicate Review. She earned a master of fi ne arts author of Pragmatist Egalitarianism, and Angels, lives in the Coachella Valley in degree in poetry from Bowling Green the editor or co-editor of two books, California, where he spent his formative State University. For more information Pragmatism and Justice and Pessimism years and learned to look upon land visit www.junesaraceno.com. of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will: seemingly lifeless with wonderment. In The Political Philosophy of Kai Nielsen. Mecca Hills, he saw life as a matter of Miranda Schmidt’s work has appeared Another edited volume, The Cambridge slight degrees: seed caught in the bark in TriQuarterly, Orion, Catapult, Electric Companion to Rorty, is currently under of a mesquite, a drop of sweat upon the Literature, The Collagist, and other contract with Cambridge University seed, a prayer to La Virgencita for life journals. She has taught creative writing Press. He is currently working on a book to unravel. This is the xeric mind of the at the Loft, the University of Washington, exploring the connections between desert, where little is needed to fulfi ll and Portland Community College, philosophy and anxiety. life’s and poetry’s breath and brevity. and will be teaching with Literary Arts It was in a Nevada prison, desert of Portland and Writers in the Schools this forsaken love, where he learned to look year. Schmidt has edited for the Seattle upon the blank page as he would the Review, Phantom Drift, Sun Star Review, desert — to write always from the heart. Lambda Literary’s Emerge Anthology, and other publications. They are currently Jessica Santina earned her bachelor’s at work on a novel about haunting and a degree in English from Emory series of ecological lyric essays. Schmidt University in Atlanta and her master’s grew up in the Midwest and now lives in degree in English from the University Portland, Oregon. of Nevada, Reno. She has been the managing editor of edible Reno- Geoff Schumacher is the senior director Tahoe magazine since 2012 and of content for the Mob Museum in Las is the former editor of three other Vegas, and is responsible for its exhibits, regional publications. Since opening artifacts, and public programs. He earned her freelance writing and editing his bachelor’s degree in journalism from business in 2003, she has edited the University of Nevada, Reno, and his numerous fi ction and nonfi ction master’s degree in history from Arizona books and dissertations. Her writing State University. He had a 25 year career credits include ghostwritten books, in journalism, with stops at the Las Vegas articles in numerous local and regional Sun, Las Vegas CityLife, Las Vegas publications, and professional Mercury, Las Vegas Review-Journal, and copywriting for print and electronic Ames (Iowa) Tribune. He is the author media. She is a managing editor for of Sun, Sin & Suburbia: A History of Lucky Bat Books, a locally owned Modern Las Vegas and served as editor publishing company, and a longtime of Nevada: 150 Years in the Silver State, contributor to the Reno Moms the offi cial book commemorating the Blog. Additionally, she is an adjunct state’s sesquicentennial. He is associate writing instructor at the University of editor of the Nevada Historical Society Nevada, Reno and Truckee Meadows Quarterly and has edited, co-edited Community College. Santina lives in or contributed to seven editions of the Sparks with her husband and daughter annual Las Vegas Writes anthology for and is an avid cook and wine lover. Nevada Humanities. 22 Sunny Solomon holds a master’s degree of their records. Tariq’s latest album Carrie Vaughn’s latest novels include in English and creative writing from is Telegrams, a follow up to the 2013 the post-apocalyptic murder mystery, San Francisco State University. She Moonwalker EP. On Telegrams, the Bannerless, winner of the Philip K. Dick is a book reviewer for The Concord- songs are like short stories—three-and- Award, and its sequel, The Wild Dead. Clayton Pioneer and her poetry and a-half minute snippets of fictional lives. She wrote a New York Times bestselling other writing has been published in series of novels about a werewolf literary journals; one chapbook, In the Danilo John Thomas is the author of named Kitty, along with several other Company of Hope; and the collection, the chapbooks The Hand Implements contemporary fantasy and young adult Six Poets Sixty-six Poems. Her writing and Murk. His fiction won the 2017- novels, and upwards of 80 short stories, has also appeared online in Tikkun 18 Ryan R Gibbs Flash Fiction Award two of which have been finalists for and The Green Man Review. Until from New Delta Review and other work the Hugo Award. She’s a contributor to retirement, she was the manager of currently appears or is forthcoming in the Wild Cards series of shared world Bonanza Books and Clayton Books the Matchbook Vol. 5 from Small Fires superhero books edited by George R.R. in Clayton, California. She owns and Press, Tampa Review, Fugue, and High Martin, and a graduate of the Odyssey manages Bookin’ with Sunny, an online Desert Journal. He earned a doctorate Fantasy Writing Workshop. A self- book review site. Solomon currently in creative writing from Florida State described Air Force brat, she survived lives next to the Truckee river in Reno. University and a master of fine arts her nomadic childhood and managed degree from the University of Alabama to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. Jared Stanley is the author of three where he was fiction editor for Black Visit her at www.carrievaughn.com. collections of poetry: EARS, The Weeds, Warrior Review. He currently acts as and Book Made of Forest. He has managing editor at Baobab Press in Willy Vlautin was born and raised in also authored numerous artists books, Reno, Nevada. Reno, Nevada. He started playing guitar chapbooks, and ephemera, including and writing songs as a teenager and Ignore the Cries of Empty Stones and Kristy Totten is an Emmy-winning quickly became immersed in music. He Your Flesh Will Break Out in Scavengers journalist and producer at Nevada founded the band Richmond Fontaine in and Shall. His poems and prose have Public Radio, with bylines at NPR, 1994. The band has ten studio albums been published in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Artsy, and Vice. When and a handful of live recordings and Poem-a-Day, Triple Canopy, Harvard she’s not working on the public affairs EPs. Driven by Vlautin’s dark, story-like Review, and Make Magazine, among show “State of Nevada” covering songwriting, the band has achieved others. In 2018, Stanley was awarded cannabis, homelessness, and the latest critical acclaim, The Independent calling the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada scuffle at city hall, she co-produces Vlautin, “The Dylan of the Dislocated.” Writers Hall of Fame. He lives in Reno and Spicy Eyes, a sound-rich podcast that It was a Paul Kelly song, based on teaches in the master of fine arts creative explores Las Vegas through the lens Raymond Carver’s Too Much Water So writing program at the University of of food and culture. Totten owns too Close to Home that inspired him to start Nevada, Reno. many plants, not enough dogs and is a writing stories. Vlautin has published five big fan of pho. novels: The Motel Life (2007–New York Tariq is a Juno-nominated songwriter Times Editor’s choice and notable book, and recording artist with a music career Josue Valadez is an educator, creator, and a major motion picture), Northline that spans over two decades. Born in and doer of dope stuff. In his eight (2008), Lean on Pete (2010-Winner of rural Quebec to parents from Pakistan years working for Washoe County the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, and and Fiji, Tariq grew up on a healthy School District, he has taught a variety a major motion picture), and The Free diet of Bollywood soundtracks. In high of subjects and grades, commencing (2014). His fifth novel, Don’t Skip Out school, he got his hands on a guitar and his teaching career in kindergarten. As on Me (2018 Shortlisted for the Pen- started writing songs which sounded of lately, he has been teaching English, Faulkner Award, ALA Notable Book of more like Cat Stevens and Neil Young art, music, and interventions at the the Year, A Southwest Book of the Year than Mohammed Rafi. By the end of the middle school level here in Reno. His and a 2019 Nevada Reads book) has just nineties, Tariq had released two full- main goal in life is empowering youth come out in paperback. Vlautin currently length albums: Splat and The Basement and he’s making his best attempt at resides in Scappoose, Oregon. Songs. The Basement Songs, which being the person he wishes he had came out on EMI Music Canada, earned growing up. He also runs his own after Michelle Aucoin Wait is a master of him national radio play as well as a Juno school programs here in the city with an fine arts in poetry candidate at the nomination for “Best New Solo Artist.” emphasis in music, hip-hop, art, theater, University of Nevada, Reno. Her work Tariq went on to release two albums and collective consciousness. He is part has appeared or is forthcoming in and an EP independently and through of the Spoken Views Collective and the Tiferet, Maudlin House, Lady/Liberty/ small imprints. In 2009, he joined the founder of Peavine Prophets, a musician Lit, LandLocked, The Meadow, and ranks of the Vancouver based band, collective. It is his belief that through others. The female speakers in her Brasstronaut. They have been putting honest expression, creation, community, poems use explicit language to critique out music and touring extensively in and love we can make this world a patriarchal structures, and often, these both Canada and in Europe in support better place. female speakers are oppressed women

23 pulled from history and refi gured as Cornell Wilkins earned a bachelor’s powerful. Wait’s mixing of the political degree in sociology at the University with religion and mythology, the sacred of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a poet with the profane, as well as her use of and works as a substance abuse case female pleasure and desire as a lens manager. He has lived in Las Vegas for to understand the political through, the last fi ve years. allows her work to critique patriarchal structures that for centuries have Lindsay Wilson is an English professor at posited women as less than men. She is Truckee Meadows Community College, a transplant from the Deep South and where he edits the school’s literary now resides beside a mountain with her journal, The Meadow. He has received a family and her four Yorkies. Silver Pen from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame as well as a Special Mention in Ashley Warren is an ENnie-nominated the Pushcart Prize XLII. His fi rst collection author and narrative designer. She holds of poetry was No Elegies, and his poems a master’s degree in literacy studies have appeared in The Missouri Review from the University of Nevada, Reno, Online Poem of the Week, Verse Daily, and has been active in Nevada’s literary the minnesota review, The Carolina community for more than a decade. Quarterly, and The Bellevue Literary Warren writes fantasy and science Review, among others. He is the former fi ction and is an adventure designer in Poet Laureate of Reno, Nevada. the tabletop roleplaying industry, most notably writing interactive stories for Erica Wirthlin works as an instructor at Dungeons & Dragons. Warren is the Lake Tahoe Community College and producer of the Uncaged anthology, a educational advisor with the Davidson collection of feminist myth- and folklore- Institute. Some of her most rewarding retellings for Dungeons & Dragons, work comes from her time as a volunteer and the director of the RPG Writer teacher at Northern Nevada Correctional Workshop, which brings new writers Center where she teaches cultural into the gaming industry. Her website is perspectives and creative writing. She www.ashleywarrenwrites.com. holds a master’s degree in cultural anthropology and a master’s certifi cate Iain Watson was born in Reno, Nevada, in gender, race, and identity. Her areas of and is a fi fth generation Nevadan. He concentration include mass incarceration, holds a Spanish degree from University labor, and identity. of Nevada, Reno, and a master’s degree in education from Sierra Nevada College. Watson is entering his seventh year of teaching and currently teaches third grade at Rita Cannan Elementary School. Watson is the founder and director of the Spoken Views Collective. Aside from writing and performing spoken word poetry, he has written and produced hip-hop music for over 20 years. Iain has brought the longest running poetry open mic to Northern Nevada and has helped organize many poetry and music events as well as help start a youth a chapter of spoken word artists who have competed twice at a national level. Watson has also been involved in local theater, acting in 6:01 AM and Mattress of the Heart. He is currently working on a few poetry and self- produced hip-hop projects.

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