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Chapter 1: CRAWL OFF THE PAGE 3— 3:50 p.m. MOVING RURAL VERSES IN AND OUT OF ENGLISH: CHILDREN’S STORYTIME Experience the Reno premiere TRANSLATORS IN of four poem-films that powerfully CONVERSATION AT SUNDANCE communicate contemporary rural issues, Join two translators and a publisher of Come hear some of ideas, and insight. Produced by the literary translation as they discuss the your favorite stories read by Paula SCHEDULE Western Folklife Center in Elko, this artful vital role translation plays in cultivating Robison, and then participate in a book infusion of poetry and video will nurture conversations across borders and making activity. a deeper understanding of rural America. languages. Featuring: Achy Obejas, Sundance Books and Music 11 Introduction by Katie Aiken, Programs Genevieve Kaplan, and Ben Karl. & National Cowboy Poetry Gathering 121 California Avenue, 3 – 4:00 p.m. OF EVENTS Manager at the Western Folklife Center. 1864 Tavern 1 Arte Italia 2 290 California Avenue, 3 – 3:50 p.m. TEEN POETRY 442 Flint Street, Introduction at 3:00 pm, ongoing until 6 p.m. FICTION P.S.: CORRESPONDENCE WORKSHOP AS LITERATURE Designed especially for GO WEST? Some stories are written entirely teen writers, this workshop in letters, and some letters tell a Ruminations and readings on the indelible will help you generate ideas story better than a novel. This character of the West. Featuring: Carolyn about your work. Featuring: reading features correspondence, real Dufurrena, Terri Farley, and Sarah Hulse. Students from UNR’s MFA program. and imagined, that speaks to stories Home NV 6 Arte Italia 2 and relationships beyond the words on the page. Featuring: Joe Crowley, Mark 442 Flint Street, 3 – 3:50 p.m. 321 South Arlington Avenue, Maynard, and Kimberly Roberts (who 3 – 3:50 p.m. is sharing readings from the archives at Special Collections at the University of LOST IN THE BASQUE Nevada, Reno). COUNTRY A WILD VIDEO READING The Loving Cup 7 WITH DAVID ABEL Two emerging novelists with close AND THE BLACK ties to the northern Nevada Basque 188 California Avenue, 3 – 3:50 p.m. experience, Sean Bernard and Gabe ROCK PRESS Urza, on writing, Basque identity, and Selected Durations is a rapid-fire their family’s literary legacy. LIFE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT attempt to capture, analyze, quantify, Join three writers who take their and archive the passage of time. Pignic Pub & Patio 9 personal stories and make them larger Experience this book project by Prologue 235 Flint Street, 3 – 3:50 p.m. than life. Featuring: Katherine Fusco, artist David Abel and practice your Lesley Hazleton, and Laura Newman. Learn how to Crawl and listen to the City of Reno letterpress skills with Black Rock Press. Truckee Bagel Company 12 Lake Mansion 3 Poet Laureate Lindsay Wilson. 538 South Virginia Street, 250 Court Street, ongoing until 6 p.m. 3 – 3:50 p.m. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Avenue 2:30 – 3:00 p.m.

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READER’S THEATRE BEYOND THE BODICE ROOTED IN PLACE: WRITING IN THE DESERT RIPPER: ROMANCE AND AND THE ENVIRONMENT Play along with us! FEMINISM Olivia Romo, of Taos, New Mexico, A WILD VIDEO READING Be a part of a Once romance writing and and Mike Branch, of Rants from the WITH DAVID ABEL performance of feminism were considered Hill, will read from their own work AND THE BLACK and discuss the value of place in Jackalope by literary contradictions. Modern ROCK PRESS Janet Stevens and Way Out in the writers Sinda Slagle, author environmental writing. Featuring: Desert by T.J. Marsh. Reader’s Theatre of contemporary western Michael Branch and Olivia Romo. Selected Durations is a rapid-fire combines reading aloud with dramatic romance, Leigh Bale, author of Ceol Irish Pub 5 attempt to capture, analyze, quantify, performance, and scripts are adapted inspirational contemporary and and archive the passage of time. from published works. People of all medieval romance, and Heather 538 South Virginia Street, Experience this book project by ages have fun interpreting their favorite Petty, author of young adult 4 – 4:50 p.m. artist David Abel and practice your books in this relaxed setting. Everyone, romantic mysteries discuss how letterpress skills with Black Rock Press. readers and not-yet-readers alike, is romance writing has evolved. welcome to participate. RENO 2017: THE IMAGE Lake Mansion 3 Salon Platinum 10 Sundance Books and Music 11 AND THE REALITY 250 Court Street, ongoing until 6 p.m 460 California Avenue, Three writers who have explored the 121 California Avenue, 4 – 4:50 p.m. 4 – 4:50 p.m. complex relationship between Reno’s past and its future confront our city’s POETRY AND PINTS image and the ways it has changed, SPOKEN VIEWS COLLECTIVE Throughout history, poetry and LEGS OF TUMBLEWEEDS, for better or for worse. Featuring: drinking have been deeply linked. SHOWCASE WINGS OF LACE: Alicia Barber, Mikalee Byerman, and Join four great poets, Genevieve Michael Higdon. Join us for a showcase of youth and AN ANTHOLOGY OF Kaplan, Ann Keniston, Gailmarie adult members of Reno’s spoken word LITERATURE BY Arte Italia 2 Pahmeier, and June Saraceno, as we collective Spoken Views, emceed by NEVADA WOMEN celebrate two of life’s great pleasures. Joe Garten. 442 Flint Street, 4 – 4:50 p.m. Witness an exploding sunrise, a 1864 Tavern 1 Pignic Pub & Patio 9 cattle-guard crossroad, and Miss 290 California Avenue, 4 – 4:50 p.m. 235 Flint Street, 4 – 4:50 p.m. Atomic at home. Explore ghosts in PUBLICATION the ecotone, sideburns as accessories, and a wind with aggressions that rival ROUNDTABLE our own. Featuring: Joan Atkinson, Join us for a discussion MOVING RURAL VERSES Gayle Brandeis, Angela Brommel, Tee of the current state of Experience the Reno premiere of Iseminger, Heather Lang, Vogue publishing and the opportunities and four poem-films that powerfully Robinson, and Angela Spires. challenges it presents for writers. communicate contemporary rural Featuring: Todd Borg, Danilo Thomas The Loving Cup issues, ideas, and insight. 7 of Baobab Press, and Karen Terrey of 188 California Avenue, 4 – 4:50 p.m. of Tangled Roots Writing. Arte Italia 2

Home NV 6 442 Flint Street, ongoing until 6 p.m. 321 South Arlington Avenue, 4 – 4:50 p.m.

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HAVE I GOT A LIVING IN THE BORDERLANDS POETRY WORKSHOP STORY FOR YOU: Join an international group of writers, Kickstart your poetry practice STORYTELLING translators, and scholars for a discussion with Reno Poet Laureate FROM GREAT of how stories cross borders and transcend Lindsay Wilson. This dynamic workshop will help you develop new writing skills. BASIN YOUNG boundaries in a time of xenophobia and fear. Featuring: Lacie Rae Cunningham, Home NV CHAUTAUQUA Daniel Enrique Pérez, and Achy Obejas. Organized 6 SCHOLARS in partnership with the Core Humanities Program at 321 South Arlington Avenue, 5 – 5:50 p.m. Listen to Harper Lee and Beatrix Potter the University of Nevada, Reno. recount their life stories, and learn what The Loving Cup 7 it takes to become a Great Basin Young THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT Chautauqua scholar. Featuring: Ruby 188 California Avenue, 5 – 5:50 p.m. Cole and Kelbey Hilliard. Listen to readings from Todd Borg, Virginia Castleman, and David Michael Slater as they share stories of life- Arte Italia 2 GHOSTS, BONES, AND DUST: WRITING or-death trouble up against powerful antagonists, real or imagined. 442 Flint Street, 5 – 5:50 p.m. ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH Lake Mansion Readings about loss, death, hope, and survival. 3 Featuring: Gayle Brandeis, Caleb S. Cage, and 250 Court Street, 5 – 5:50 p.m. WRITERS ON THE VERGE Suzanne Roberts. New work by University of Nevada, Ceol Irish Pub 5 Reno MFA graduate students MOVING RURAL VERSES A WILD VIDEO READING and faculty. Listen to five minute 538 South Virginia Street, 5 – 5:50 p.m. Experience the Reno premiere of four WITH DAVID ABEL stories and poems about moments AND THE BLACK when it seems like anything can poem-films that powerfully communicate contemporary rural issues, ideas, and insight. ROCK PRESS happen. INSIDE/INSIGHT Arte Italia 2 Selected Durations is a rapid-fire attempt Pignic Pub & Patio 9 Readings by men formerly incarcerated at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center (NNCC), to capture, analyze, quantify, and archive 235 Flint Street, 5 – 5:50 p.m. 442 Flint Street, ongoing until 6 p.m. alumna of Professor Susan Chandler’s weekly NNCC the passage of time. Experience this book creative writing class. They will be joined by Dr. project by artist David Abel and practice Cassandra Little. your letterpress skills with Black Rock Press.

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SURRENDER (2014) Mixed media installation with Megan Berner and Jared Stanley Surrender is a site-specific book composed of nine white flags with sewn- on text, spelling out words such as “will,” “unhurt,” “outlasting,” and “persist.” A flag is a way of making the wind KEYNOTE EVENT: AN material and legible. At the same time, EVENING WITH ADAM the flags are, in a sense, ‘surrendered’ JOHNSON to the wind—the wind is free to act on it however it may, changing the flag’s Listen to award-winning novelist Adam Annette Hornischer shape, sometimes making the words Johnson reading from his recent work. legible, sometimes making them more There will be a question and answer sculptural. See this piece at Arts for All session following the reading hosted by Nevada at the Lake Mansion. Hugh Shapiro, Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. A book signing will follow at Sundance Books SELECTED DURATIONS and Music. (2016) Nevada Museum of Art 8 Video by David Abel Wayne and Miriam Prim Theater, Selected Durations is a 160 West Liberty Street, 6 – 6:50 p.m. rapid-fire attempt to capture, This event is free, but tickets are analyze, quantify, and archive the required. Obtain tickets at the museum. passage of time. Both the kinesthetic RENGA RIDERS and material aspects of this book offer Renga is a Japanese form of added layers of meaning, allowing collaborative poem. If you have ever EPILOGUE PARTY the reader to experience the text written a haiku, you have written Rub shoulders with your along with the passage of time itself. the first part of a renga. Nevada favorite authors and get Rather than simply being read, the Humanities has partnered with the them to sign your books. book is performed, and time ticks Reno Bike Project to present RENGA Music by Reno Video Game Symphony away with the turn of each page. The RIDERS, a pedal-powered riff on the Orchestra and Grace Hayes, as well as accompanying publication was inspired Renga tradition. Here’s how it works: additional poetry readings. Food trucks, by a performance of the piece by during breaks between Crawl Off with gelato by Bibo Freddo Gelato. David Abel in a BFA Seminar taught the Page events, our volunteer riders by Inge Bruggeman in the Department will approach audience members to Sundance Books and Music 11 of Art at the University of Nevada, contribute to the renga. Participants 121 California Avenue, 5:30 – 8:00 p.m. Reno. See this video thoughout the will have two minutes to read the prior afternoon at Arts for All Nevada at the renga and write a response, using the Lake Mansion. traditional Haiku syllabic form: a three- line poem of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables. The final poems will be read at the Epilogue event.

11 12 Sean Bernard is the author of the of raising daughters up in the remote hills Virginia Castleman has been a regional Lindsay Cook graduated from the Her Phantom Stallion (HarperCollins) series novel Studies in the Hereafter and the of the western Great Basin Desert north advisor for the Society of Children’s University of Nevada, Reno in May for young readers and Seven Tears into the Crawl Off story collection Desert Sonorous, winner of Reno. His newest book is Rants from Book Writers and Illustrators, a publisher, 2014 with a Bachelor of Science Sea (Simon and Schuster) have sold over two of the 2014 Juniper Prize. A recipient of the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, screenwriter, and publicist, and currently in Elementary Education. She is a million copies in 27 countries. the Page an NEA Fellowship in Prose, he teaches in Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, teaches English composition and writing teacher at Virginia Palmer Elementary and directs the creative writing program at and Other Encounters with the Wild in the at Truckee Meadows Community College School in Sun Valley. Lindsay is the Katherine Fusco is the author of

Contributors the University of La Verne in California. High Desert. in Reno. She has written for Highlights Program Administrator of the Great two books, Silent Film and U.S. for Children, The Children’s Writer’s Guide, Basin Young Chautauqua program at Naturalist Literature: Time, Narrative and other publications. Her middle- Nevada Humanities. Megan Berner works in a multitude of Gayle Brandeis is the author of and Modernity (Routledge) and Kelly David Abel is an internationally recognized media including digital and experimental Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women grade novel, Sara Lost and Found (Simon Reichardt (University of Illinois). Currently, & Schuster), the story of two sisters poet, performer, and visual artist from techniques with instant film, digital Who Write, and the novels The Book Joe Crowley served as president of she is working on a book about stardom and Portland, Oregon. He also works as a transfers, and cyanotypes. She creates of Dead Birds, which won Barbara caught up in the foster care system, the University of Nevada, Reno for questions of identity in the 1920s and 1930s. bookstore owner, curator, and editor. His site-specific installations, artist’s books, Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize for Fiction has received favorable reviews and more than 23 years, and has written She teaches courses on film theory, and work fluidly moves between the literary and collaborative interactions, textile projects, of Social Engagement, Self Storage, was selected by Nevada Humanities to books and essays on the academic 19th and 20th century American literature at visual arts and focuses on publishing as the and narrative videos. Megan’s work has Delta Girls, and My Life with the Lincolns, represent Nevada at the “Pavilion of the presidency and related topics, the University of Nevada, Reno. Additionally, act of making things public. been shown nationally and internationally which received a Silver Nautilus Book States” at the National Book Festival in culminating with the centennial history Katherine writes popularly about and is part of multiple collections including Award and was chosen as a state-wide Washington D.C. this fall. She is currently of the National Collegiate Athletic mindfulness, productivity, creativity, work-life working on a sequel. Joan Atkinson, who also writes as Arlene the Center for Art and Environment at read in Wisconsin. Her poetry collection, Association. In retirement, he has balance, and pop-culture and has appeared Stuart, earned a B.A. in English at the the Nevada Museum of Art, University The Selfless Bliss of the Body, was turned to writing poetry. in Harpers Bazaar, The Huffington Post, University of Oregon. A former columnist of Arizona Art Museum, the University of released in June 2017 and her memoir, Susan Chandler retired in 2013 from OZY, and Salmagundi. Iowa Special Collections, and Southern The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My 20 years of full-time teaching in the for Rocky Mountain Brewing News, her Lacie Rae Cunningham is a writer, Graphics Council International Archive. Her Mother’s Suicide, will be published in School of Social Work at the University non-fiction work has also appeared in translator, and currently works as a Grace Hayes is a performing artist, regional magazines, newspapers, and work Surrender, in collaboration with Jared November 2017. Her poetry, essays and of Nevada, Reno. She is the author Postdoc at the University of Nevada, actress, singer/songwriter, pianist/ e-zines. Her short stories are included in Stanley, can be seen at Arte Italia during short fiction have been widely published with Jill Jones of Casino Women: Reno where she focuses on Chicanx ukulelist, spoken word poet, and Tahoe Blues: Short Lit on Life at the Lake the Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl. and have received many honors, Courage in Unexpected Places, which and Latinx Studies and teaches in the comedian. As a young emerging talent, and Legs of Tumbleweeds, Wings of Lace: including a Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace was awarded the 2013 American Spanish department. Her research Hayes has been featured in commercials, An Anthology of Literature by Nevada Todd Borg is the author of fifteen Owen Poetry Award and a Notable Essay in Oral History Association prize. For interests include critical theories of the theatrical plays, and concert shows Women. She’s a member of the Society of McKenna mysteries set in the Tahoe/Reno Best American Essays 2016. the last two and a half years she has nonhuman, poetry, and performance. at different venues since 2009. Hayes Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators area. Borg’s books have made numerous been teaching classes at the Northern released her first original album, and the Lone Mountain Writers. bestseller lists, won the Ben Franklin Award holds an MFA Nevada Correctional Center, a Unconventional, in 2013. Angela M. Brommel Carolyn Dufurrena is a rancher and award- for Best Mystery of the Year, and received in creative writing, and an MA in medium-security prison. rave reviews, including a starred review winning author and journalist. She writes for Leigh Bale is a Publisher’s Weekly theatre with a focus on playwriting. in Library Journal. Borg’s books feature RANGE magazine. She served as associate Lesley Hazleton, aka “The Accidental bestselling author from Nevada. She is the Her poetry has been featured in The Jamaa Cinque was born in Jamaica and Detective Owen McKenna, a former editor and contributor for Reflections Theologist,” explores the vast and winner of the prestigious Golden Heart Best American Poetry Blog, North raised in Tampa, Florida. He writes: “i Homicide Inspector from the of the West, nominated for a 2016 Will volatile arena in which religion and and a finalist for the Gayle Wilson Award of American Review, The Literary Review, am a true warrior of the concept of life, Police Department, and McKenna’s sidekick Rogers Medallion, and Brushstrokes politics intersect. Hazleton reported from Excellence and the Bookseller’s Best Award. Petite Hound Press, and anthologized a true bush-doctor willing to assist in Spot, a 170-pound Harlequin Great Dane. and Balladeers: Painters and Poets of Jerusalem for 13 years, contributing She has over twenty books in print and has in All of Us: Sweet: The First Five Years, the healing and to be part of i am. JAH Borg has just been chosen as Toastmaster the American West, which received the to , The New York sold over a million copies worldwide. Legs of Tumbleweeds, Wings of Lace: is the author, i am the narrator.” for the Left Coast Crime Mystery convention Wrangler Award for Best Poetry Book Review of Books, Harper’s, The Nation, An Anthology of Literature by Nevada of 2014 from the National Cowboy and and others. She is currently a fellow at the taking place in Reno, March 22-25, 2018. Women, and Clark: Poetry from Clark Alicia Barber, PhD, is a professional Christopher Coake is the author of the Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma Black Mountain Institute at the University of His newest title is Tahoe Payback. County Nevada. Her poem, Home historian and writer specializing in the novel You Came Back (2012) and the City. Carolyn regularly performs at Elko’s Nevada, Las Vegas. A repeat TED speaker, Means Nevada, placed 1st in the 2017 American West, cities, and the built story collection We’re in Trouble (2005), National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. Hazleton’s talks have been viewed over is a humor essayist, Helen Stewart Poetry Award. Angela environment. She is the author of Reno’s Mikalee Byerman which won the PEN/Robert Bingham She is the editor of a local bimonthly three million times. travel writer, speaker and editor. In addition is the Director of Arts & Culture and Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Fellowship for a first work of fiction. In magazine, Community Living, serving to her book 100 Things to Do in Reno Advancement, and a part-time faculty Biggest Little City and the co-founder and 2007 he was named one of Granta’s Best Northern Nevada rural communities. Before You Die (Reedy Press, 2017), she member in humanities at Nevada State Michael Higdon is the city life reporter editor of Reno Historical (renohistorical. Young American Novelists. His short also is documenting her post-divorce(s) College, as well as the Editor-in-Chief at at the Reno Gazette-Journal, where org), a smart phone app and website fiction has been anthologized in Best reinvention on her blog. The blog has been The Citron Review. Becky Ellis served Washoe County he reports on urban life and downtown dedicated to Reno’s history. Recipient of American Mystery Stories 2004 and featured on the Huffington Post and TIME students as an elementary school librarian Reno gentrification. He studies and shares the 2014 Nevada Silver Pen Award from The Best American Noir of the Century, Magazine’s websites, and her writing also for 11 years. Now retired, she volunteers information about trends in lifestyle, the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, she is Caleb S. Cage is the co-author of the Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, and has appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal, in support of literacy throughout the contemporary issues, poverty, and currently the host of the history segment book The Gods of Diyala: Transfer of published in journals such as Granta, The Southwest Spirit Magazine, Alaska Airlines community and is a member of the economic trends, while translating city Time & Place for KUNR-Reno Public Radio Command in Iraq (Texas A&M, 2008), Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Magazine, and numerous other regional Northern Nevada Reading Week government and business news about a and serves on the Nevada State Board of about his time as a platoon leader, and Five Points, and The Journal. A native and client publications. Conference Committee. redeveloping Reno. Museums and History. the author of Desert Mementos: Stories of Indiana, Coake received an MA from of Iraq and Nevada (University of Nevada University of Ohio and an MFA from is a best-selling author of books is in the 7th grade at Michael Branch is Professor of Literature Press). His essays and fiction have Ohio State University. He is an Associate Terri Farley Kelbey Hilliard Casey Bell is a writer and musician and Environment at the University of appeared in War, Literature, and the Arts, Professor of English at the University of about the contemporary and historic West. Billinghurst Middle School. She has from Philadelphia. She earned her BA Nevada, Reno. He has published eight Red Rock Review, High Country News, Nevada, Reno, where he directs the MFA Wild at Heart: Mustangs and the Young participated in the Nevada Humanities in journalism and has worked in literary books and more than 200 essays and Small Wars Journal, and various other program in creative writing. People Fighting to Save Them (Houghton- Great Basin Young Chautauqua program and academic publishing for nearly a reviews exploring the complex, often publications and anthologies. He is a Mifflin-Harcourt) is a Junior Library Guild for the past three years. Her previous decade. She is currently earning her MFA comical relationship between human graduate of the United States Military selection and winner of the Sterling North characters were Helen Stewart, Ruth in creative writing from The University of Ruby Cole is a freshman at Reno High School. beings and the natural landscape. His book Academy, West Point, a veteran of the Heritage Award for Excellence in Children’s Wakefield, and Beatrix Potter. Nevada, Reno, where she specializes in She is an actor with Theater Works of Northern Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home Iraq War, and a native and resident of Literature; it has also been honored by short fiction. Nevada and just completed her first year as a in the Wilderness (2016), tells the story Reno, Nevada. Western Writers of America, National Great Basin Young Chautauqua scholar, where Science Teachers Association and American she portrayed author Harper Lee. Association for the Advancement of Science. 13 14 Sarah Hulse is the author of the novel Black Yale Review, Gettysburg Review, Literary founded the “Heroin Committee,” a group Reno Video Game Symphony (RVGS) is a Hugh Shapiro is Associate Professor of editor for the literary journals Pitkin River, a PEN/Hemingway Finalist and an Imagination, and Crazyhorse. She has that produces and runs public service non-profit organization dedicated to both Asian History at the University of Nevada. Review and Quay. She is a recipient of a American Library Association Notable recently completed a new collection, announcements to educate parents about the musical education and education about He edited Medicine Across Cultures: History Sierra Arts Endowment Grant, the John Book. Her short fiction has appeared entitled An Assemblage, Exploring the drugs their kids are most likely to be exposed video games in the Reno, Nevada area. As an and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Woods Scholarship to Prague Summer in Willow Springs, Witness, and Relation Between Psychoanalysis, the to. She pens Through the Scary - Addiction organization they strive to form a strong and Cultures, and his recent work appears in Program, the Steve Turner Scholarship to Salamander. She received her MFA Psychosomatic, and Originality. She is a Recovery Success Stories on “Yahoo Voices.” inclusive community of musicians. volumes published by Harvard University Surprise Valley Writer’s Conference, and a from the University of Oregon and was a scholar of contemporary American poetry Parallel to Paradise: Addiction and Other Press, Brill, Rowman & Littlefield, and Kluwer. scholarship to the Vermont Studio Center. James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the and Professor of English at the University Love Stories (LeRue Press) is Newman’s first Kimberly Roberts studied literature He has enjoyed visiting appointments Her poems have appeared in Rhino, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is of Nevada, Reno. book of short stories. and history at Colorado State University at Princeton University, at universities in Edge, Meadow, WordRiot, Puerto Del Sol, an assistant professor of English at the and history of photography, science, and , Kyoto, and Taipei, and the Institute Wicked Alice, Canary, and Gray Sparrow University of Nevada, Reno. Heather Lang was voted 2017 Best Achy Obejas is the author of the critically environment at the University of Nevada, for Advanced Study, Princeton. Hugh Journal, among others. Local Writer or Poet by the readers of acclaimed novels Ruins, Days of Awe, and Reno. She has worked at museums, libraries, received the Li-Qing Prize for the History Tee Iseminger is a writer and literary Nevada Public Radio’s publication Desert three other books of fiction. She edited and and archives across the country and is of Chinese Science and won his university’s Danilo John Thomas is the author of community advocate in Reno, Nevada. She Companion. Her writing process and translated (into English) the anthology Havana currently the photograph curator in Special highest teaching award. the chapbook The Hand Implements is an alumni of the Squaw Valley Writer’s poems have been exhibited at the Nevada Noir, and has since translated Junot Díaz, Rita Collections at the University of Nevada, Reno. (forthcoming 2018). Born and raised in Workshops, the Fishtrap Gathering of Writers, Humanities Program Gallery and Left of Indiana, Wendy Guerra, and many others. In Sinda Slagle is a best-selling author of Montana, he served as the fiction editor and the Fine Arts Work Center’s digital Center Art Gallery, both in Las Vegas. Her 2014, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship Suzanne Roberts is the author of the nineteen romantic novels set in the Wild for Black Warrior Review (America’s oldest workshops, and she was the recipient of the poetry is featured in Hoot, The Normal for her writing and translation. She currently award-winning memoir Almost Somewhere, West. Her western romances, emotional student-run literary journal), while earning Sierra Arts Literary Award in 2013. She studied School, Pleaides, Whiskey Island, and others. serves as the Director of the MFA in translation as well as four books of poetry. She and compelling stories, have sold his MFA from the University of Alabama. He at the Reynolds School of Journalism and Heather curated Legs of Tumbleweeds, program at Mills College in Oakland, California. teaches in the low residency MFA program internationally and include the Rancher is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Creative in the University of Nevada, Reno’s creative Wings of Lace: An Anthology of Literature at Sierra Nevada College. series, The Westerners series and These Writing at Florida State University and the writing program. Her work has appeared in The by Nevada Women. She serves as World Gailmarie Pahmeier teaches creative Nevada Boys series. She also writes Managing Editor of Baobab Press, the Meadow, Sixfold, and the anthology Legs of Literature Editor for The Literary Review and writing and contemporary literature courses Vogue Robinson​ is the current Clark County mysteries as SJ Slagle and has published publishing arm of Sundance Books and Tumbleweeds, Wings of Lace. as co-editor of Petite Hound Press. Lang was at the University of Nevada, Reno, where Poet Laureate. Her collection of poetry, five novels including the Sherlock and Music in Reno, Nevada. named 2017 Adjunct of the Year at Nevada she has been honored with the University Vogue 3:16, was released in 2014, and she has Me series. Her latest, Spies, is a Adam Johnson is the author of several State College where she teaches Asian Distinguished Teacher Award. She is also competed in the National Poetry Slam four story of historical fiction set in WWII. Gabriel Urza graduated from the University books, including Fortune Smiles, which literature, professional writing, and more. on the faculty of the low-residency MFA times. She is a co-host of Las Vegas’ Battle of Nevada, Reno and worked for several won the 2015 National Book Award, and Program at Sierra Nevada College. Her work Born Slam & Words in Motion. When she’s not David Michael Slater is the author of over years as a public defender in Reno before the novel The Orphan Master’s Son, which Cassandra Little has been writing poetry has been widely published in literary journals writing and performing, she’s spending time 20 works of fiction for children, teens, and pursuing his MFA in creative writing at the was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize. and essays since grade school. She studied and anthologies. She is the author of the with her nieces or organizing as the executive adults. His work for children includes the Ohio State University. His work has appeared His fiction has appeared in Esquire, GQ, criminal justice at California State Fullerton poetry collections The House on Breakaheart director of Poetry Promise, Inc. picture books Cheese Louise!, The Bored in The New York Times, Salon, Politico, Playboy, Harper’s Magazine, Granta, Tin and California Baptist University. She earned Road and The Rural Lives of Nice Girls and Book, and The Boy & the Book; the early The Guardian, and elsewhere. His first House, and The Best American Short Stories. a master’s degree in social work and her three chapbooks. She is a former National Paula Robison has taught art at many chapter book series, Mysterious Monsters; and novel, All That Followed, was a New York His work has been translated into more than doctorate in counseling from the University Literary Panelist for the YoungArts Foundation, schools in the Reno area, as an artist-in- the teen series, Forbidden Books. David’s Times Editor’s Choice and was named a Best thirty languages. He currently serves as a Nevada, Reno. For over 28 years she worked and her literary awards include a Witter Bynner residence with Sierra Arts Foundation’s Arts work for adults includes the forthcoming non- Crime Fiction Debut of the Year by Booklist. professor of English at Stanford University. professionally in child welfare. In 2013, the Poetry Fellowship, three Artists Fellowships in Education, an art teacher with Arts For fiction title, We’re Doing It Wrong: 25 Ideas He was recently a Miriam Shearing Fellow trajectory of her life changed drastically from the Nevada Arts Council, and the All Nevada, and for adults with the David J. in Education — And How to Fix Them and at the Black Mountain Institute, and Genevieve Kaplan is the author of In the when she was indicted and incarcerated for Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Drakulich Foundation. She currently teaches the novel, Fun & Games, which the New York currently teaches creative writing in the MFA Ice House (Red Hen Press), winner of the 33 months for health care fraud and money In 2015, she was appointed Reno’s first Poet through the Art Masterpieces program at Journal of Books called “hilarious.” program at Portland State University. 2009 To the Lighthouse poetry prize from laundering. During her incarceration, her love Laureate, and in 2016 she was inducted into Brown Elementary School. A Room of Her Own Foundation, and three for writing poetry and writing is what kept her the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Angela Spires is a teacher, writer, and mother Lindsay Wilson is an English professor at chapbooks: In an Aviary (Grey Book Press), whole, sane, and alive. Olivia Romo is a recognized spoken word artist who lives in Reno. She works for the Davidson Truckee Meadows Community College, and Travelogue (Dancing Girl); and Settings Daniel Enrique Pérez is the director of Core and in 2011 became the New Mexico State Academy and for the local universities. She he has edited the literary journal, The Meadow, for These Scenes (Convulsive Editions). Mark Maynard teaches at Truckee Humanities and an associate professor of Slam Poetry Champion. She was nominated has published flash fiction in multiple journals since 2006. He has published five chapbooks, She lives in southern California where Meadows Community College. His work Chicanx and Latinx literature at the University as a “Remarkable Woman of Taos” and “A including Burningword Literary Journal, Brilliant and his first collection is No Elegies. His she edits the Toad Press International has appeared in the Reno News and of Nevada, Reno. His research and writing Woman to Watch” for the 2013 community- Flash Fiction, Microfiction Monday Magazine, poetry has appeared in The Bellevue Literary chapbook series, publishing contemporary Review and the essay collection Tahoe centers on the intersections of gender, wide celebration honoring outstanding Crack the Spine, The Stray Branch, and others. Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Portland translations of poetry and prose. Blues, as well as in numerous literary ethnicity, and sexuality, especially concerning Taoseñas. Olivia has been published in multiple She writes across multiple genres and enjoys Review, Verse Daily, and The Missouri Review magazines. In 2015, Maynard received queer Chicanx and Latinx identities. He anthologies and environmental magazines working with youth and the community on Online. He is currently serving as the poet Ben Karl is a professional French to English and the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame is a scholar and creative writer who often such as Malpais Review, Greenhorn’s New writing projects and programs. Her daughter laureate of Reno, Nevada. Mandarin Chinese to English translator. Drawn Silver Pen Award. The Nevada State incorporates poetry into his scholarly work, and Farmers Almanac, and scholarly journals from is her greatest passion and inspires her in her to the ability to facilitate communication across Library selected his collection of short vice versa. In addition to his book, Rethinking the University of New Mexico. She lives in Taos, teaching, writing, and other endeavors. John Wiseman has been writing seriously linguistic and cultural barriers, he studied stories, Grind, as the 2016-17 Nevada Chicana/o and Latina/o Popular Culture, he New Mexico and is currently the 2017 Nevada since he was in college where he won some French literature and translation at McGill Reads Book, and in July 2017, he and his has published several articles, essays ,and Humanities poet-in-residence. Jared Stanley is a poet, writer and artist. He national awards. His work has been published University in , Canada. He translates dog puppets were crowned champions poems in his field. He is also the editor of a is the author of three books of poetry, Ears, in literary journals. He is in the process of marketing, financial, and corporate documents of the internationally renowned reading collection of plays entitled Latina/o Heritage June Sylvester Saraceno is the author of two The Weeds, and Book Made of Forest. He finishing a screen play adapted from a novel for clients all over the world. series Literary Death Match, in its Reno on Stage: Dramatizing Heroes and Legends. poetry collections, Of Dirt and Tar, and Altars frequently collaborates with visual artists; he wrote a few years ago. He writes poetry debut. of Ordinary Light, as well as a chapbook recent collaborations include The Plain Sense in both Spanish and English and has a Ann Keniston is the author of the poetry Heather Petty has been obsessed with of prose poems, Mean Girl Trips. Her work of Things (with Sarah Lillegard), Surrender compilation of short stories. collection The Caution of Human Gestures Laura Newman is a several-time winner mysteries since she was twelve, which is when has appeared in various journals including (with Megan Berner), and The Newlands (Wordtech 2005) and a chapbook, of the Reno News & Review Short Fiction she decided that stories about murders in Blue Lyra Review, Southwestern American Memorial Award (A Curse). November Wasps: Elegies (Finishing Line Contest. Newman is an American Marketing London drawing rooms and English seaside Literature, and Tar River Poetry. She is English 2013) and coeditor of The New American Association and Addy Award winner, as villages were far superior to all other stories. program chair at Sierra Nevada College, Lake Karen Terrey is a writer, editor, and Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century well as the 2012 recipient of the American She is the author of the Lock & Mori series, Tahoe, as well as MFA faculty, and founding owner of Tangled Roots Writing. She Anthology (McFarland 2012). Her poems Advertising Federation’s Community a Sherlock Holmes origin story told from the editor of the Sierra Nevada Review. has taught at Lake Tahoe Community have appeared or are forthcoming in Contribution of the Year award. Newman perspective of a 16-year-old female, Moriarty. 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