2009 festival of books - official guide

W h e r e Readers a n d Writers

R e n d e z v o u s

October 2-4, 2009 De a Dwo oD, SD

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For more information visit www.sdbookfestival.com or call us at (605) 688-6113. Time and presenters listed are subject to change. Changes will be announced on www.sdbookfestival.com and will be included in the “Festival Survivor’s Guide,” a handout available at the information desk in Festival Central at the Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce.

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8 Our Rhythms: A Tribute to Poetry Sponsored by Deadwood Public Library

9 OurWorld:ATributetoNon-Fiction Sponsored by South Dakota Public Broadcasting

10 Our Youth: A Tribute to Children’s Literature Sponsored by First Interstate Bank

11 OurFantasies:ATributetoFictionandStorytelling Sponsored by Messengers of Healing Winds

12 OurCreativity:ATributetoWriter’sSupport Sponsored by South Dakota Arts Council

13 OurCulture:ATributetoHistoryandTribalWriting Sponsored by Black Hills Power

14 ScheduleofEvents

19 ExhibitorsatFestivalCentral

20 Presenters

4 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

WELCOME…

ADVERTISER LISTINGAdams Museum ......................................26

BankWest/Big Read ............................... 27

Black Hills State University ................... 23

The Book Shop ....................................... 17

Center for Western Studies .................... 16

Challenge ad sponsored by BankWest ... 18

Hachette Book Group ............................ 24

Harper Collins ....................................... 31

Mount Marty .......................................... 14

Mount Rushmore History Association ... 16

Pine Hill Press ....................................... 15

Prairie Edge Book & Music Store ..........26

Prairie Pages Bookseller ....................... 22

Random House ...................................... 21

S.D. Agricultural Heritage Museum ........4

S.D. Historical Society Press ..................2

S.D. Humanities Council .......................28

S.D. Public Broadcasting ........................5

S.D. Public Broadcasting ...................... 22

S.D. State University .............................20

Shadow Mountain ................................. 25

South Dakotans for the Arts ................... 17

State Publishing ....................................30

University of Sioux Falls .......................29

University of S.D. English Dept. ............30

The West As I Lived It ............................. 15

THE CITY OF DEADWOOD and the Deadwood His-

toric Preservation Commission are pleased to

once again welcome you to Deadwood, A Na-

tional Landmark Community, for the South Dakota

Festival of Books! We thank the South Dakota Hu-

manities Council’s Center for the Book, an affiliate

of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as a

major partner in the Festival of Books, as well as the

Deadwood Public Library, and all of the organizations

and volunteers who made this book festival possible.

We are eager to provide an occasion for readers

to meet their favorite writers and look forward to welcoming authors and book-

lovers alike to our unique town. The festival, held within downtown Deadwood,

is family-friendly, and sure to appeal to a wide range of interests and ages. We

are confident that everyone will find something to pique his or her interest; from

children’s activities, to works on history, tribal writing, non-fiction, fiction, poetry,

and storytelling!

South Dakota is a diverse state, with varied interests, and we are pleased to

bring an equally wide-range of writers together for the Seventh Annual South

Dakota Festival of Books. We look forward to having you join us for this exciting

event and hope you get a chance to explore Deadwood while you are here!

Mayor Francis Toscana


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A. ADAMS MUSEUM (54 Sherman St.) Event is held in the Pioneer Room.

B. DEADWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (716 Main St.) Use the north entrance for the auditorium & gym.

C. DEADWOOD GULCH CONVENTION CENTER (304 Cliff St.) Located on Hwy. 85 South. It will be on right side of the highway when heading south.

D. DEADWOOD PAVILION/CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (761 Main St.) Main floor is Festival Central location. Concessions are available inside.

E. DEADWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY (435 Williams St.) Walk up the hill on Shine St. and turn left or walk through the Franklin and exit out the back entrance on 2nd floor through the parking lot.

F. DEADWOOD SOCIAL CLUB (657 Main St.) Go upstairs through the restaurant entrance or the # 10 Saloon entrance for an elevator.

G. FRANKLIN HOTEL (700 Main St.) Located in the Emerald Room on the 2nd floor.

H. HOLIDAY INN CONVENTION CENTER — SPEARFISH (305 N 27th St., Spearfish) Go north out of Deadwood on Hwy. 85. Connect to Interstate 90 and travel west to Spearfish. Take exit 14 and turn right onto N. 27th St.

I. HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS — DEADWOOD (22 Lee St.) Go downstairs to the Mystic Room.

J. MARTIN & MASON HOTEL (33 Deadwood St.) Located in the 1898 Ballroom upstairs.

K. MASONIC TEMPLE (corner of Main St. & Pine St.)

L. SALOON #10 (657 Main St.)

M. SILVERADO’S CLUBHOUSE (709 Main St.) Enter from Main St. at the restaurant sign, go downstairs and to your right is the meeting room.

N. ST. AMBROSE CATHOLIC PARISH (760 Main St.) Enter through north door and into the Social Hall in the basement. Elevator access at the southwest entrance.

O. TATANKA (100 Tatanka Dr.) Drive one mile north of Deadwood on Hwy. 85, located on the right side of the highway.

FESTIVAL OF BOOKS EVENT LOCATIONS

PARKING—All street parking in Deadwood is metered including the His-tory Information Center. Miller Street parking lot and Lower Main Street parking lot are metered. Sherman Street Parking lot is free. Broadway Parking Ramp has $2 minimum and $5 maximum for 24 hours.


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FESTIVAL GUIDELINESPleaseabidebythefollowingguidelinestomakethiseventenjoyableforall.Nosolicitingordistributionofflyers,litera-ture,etc.,ofanykindatanyfestivalvenuewithoutpriorconsent.Novideotapingortaperecording.Turncellphonesandpag-ersoffduringpresentations.TheS.D.Fes-tivalofBooks,itssponsorsorvenues,arenotresponsibleforlostorstolenitems.

FESTIVAL CENTRALBesuretostopbyFestivalCentrallocatedonthemainflooroftheDeadwoodPavilion/ChamberofCommerce.Thereyouwillfindupdatestotheschedule,theEarlyBirdBookSigningandtheExhibitorsHall.OpenFridayfrom3–6p.m.andagainonSaturdayfrom9a.m.–7p.m.


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Marilyn Chin Returns!

A LIST OF ALL of Marilyn Chin’s honors and awards would leave l it tle space for anything else; a quick summation will have to do. She’s the recipient of two

grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She’s been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan, has collected a number of Pushcart Prizes, received a Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, and the Paterson Prize.

Chin has an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and is a professor of poetry at San Diego State University for the school’s M.F.A. program in creative writing. She has taught at workshops worldwide, and is known for her translation work, includ-ing Chinese poet Ai Qing and Gozu Yo-shimasu (Japan).

Chin has two books being published just in time for this year’s festival. A re-vised edition of her poetry collection The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty will be published by Milkweed. One reviewer called the original edition “unsentimen-tally courageous.” Chin’s debut novel, Re-venge of the Mooncake Vixen, is being re-leased just days before the festival. Chin’s other volumes of poetry are Dwarf Bam-boo and Rhapsody in Plain Yellow.

Chin’s poetry reflects her activist char-acter and has stated that she believes it is important “that poetry make something happen.” She often writes about assimi-lation issues; she was born in Hong Kong and came to the U.S. as a child. In one of her most-quoted poems, “How I Got That Name: An Essay on Assimilation,” she examines how Mei Ling became Marilyn because of her father’s fascination with Marilyn Monroe.

The poetry track is rife with names sure to please any poetry taste. Publishers Weekly has bestowed a coveted starred re-view upon Wayne Miller’s Book of Props, calling the poet “one to watch” and de-scribing the 2009 collection as “elegant” and noting that “transformations—from

the everyday to the wondrous and/ or haunting—are everywhere” in this book.

Three award-winning South Dakota poets, David Allan Evans, Linda Hassel-strom, and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn will of-fer a fascinating look at Dakota poetry.

The poetry track would not be complete without readings. Melissa Kwasny will read from Reading Novalis in Montana. Jim Reese, Wayne Miller and David Al-lan Evans will read at afternoon sessions.

Gary Westgard and Daniel Burow have studied spiritual matters for years. They will discuss their experiences in a co-pre-sentation at the Deadwood Public Library.

In “Sound and Rhythm,” Ken Wald-man, “Alaska’s Fiddling Poet,” will pro-vide participants with a look at his dual passions and talents. Waldman will also perform at Festival Central during Satur-day’s lunch break.

Marilyn Chin and Quincy Troupe will present a poetry workshop on Fri-day, October 2, from 9:00 a.m. to 11 :00 a.m. The cost of the workshop is $40; call 605.688.6113 for further details.

Chin will also present during the SD State Poetry Society’s tea. The group’s annual meeting is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday.

THE INNOVATOR AT LARGE

QUINCY TROUPE COMES to the festival after re-ceiving the National Book award twice, and was Cali-fornia’s first Poet Laureate.

Troupe makes being prol i f ic look easy. His award-winning poetry has appeared in SkullsAlongthe River, Transcirculari-ties, Choruses, Avalanche, and Weather Reports . Publishers Weekly wrote Troupe “is an innovator of form and tone who shifts quickly from a lofty, elegi-ac mode into burlesque or smoky, jazzed-down pop phraseology.”

Troupe captures the legendary Miles Davis in two much-lauded works, Miles:TheAutobiography and Miles and Me. He’s also written for children, including a picture book about basketball great Magic Johnson.

Troupe and Chris Gard-ner co-wrote Gardner ’s true rags to riches tale in ThePursuitofHappyness. In the movie version, Will Smith played Gardner.

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OUR WORLDOurWorld:ATributetoNon-Fiction.

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A CTOR, WRITER AND standup comedian Da-vid Cross is probably best known for his role on the TV show Arrested Devel-opment. In it, Cross plays

Dr. Tobias Fünke, a psychiatrist who los-es his medical license after attempting CPR on a man he assumes is dying—in fact, the man is simply overweight and asleep as he sunbathes next to a pool.

Needless to say, Fünke is a hap-less character, and viewers watch him bou nce f rom one dead-end audition to the next in his goal to become a world-renown theatre actor. Cross’s performance as Fünke is legend-ary, and it helped t h e show w i n a n Emmy in 2004 and earn several other nominations.

T hose who fel l in love with David Cross as Tobias Fün-ke, however, might be surprised by the tone of his other work. Whereas Fünke is feeble and lost character, standup comedian Cross is anything but.

Commonly identif ied as “ir rever-ent,” the word “brash” comes in a close second. In fact, it is this side-splitting and wide-ranging social satire on such things as rock music, patriotism, and SUVs, that first earned Cross acclaim. And after distilling this blend of humor into two comedy CDs, one of which was nominated for a Grammy, Cross has now written a book. Join him for a raucous time Friday evening when he discusses his new memoir, “I Drink for a Reason.”

Among the other notable non-fiction presentations, Jim Reese and Pamela Todd will present a session on teaching writing in the prison system. Since 2008,

Reese has been the National Endowment for the Arts Writer-in-Residence at the Yankton Federal Prison Camp, and Todd received a grant from the Illinois Arts Council to teach journal writing in a women’s prison.

Todd’s latest book, The Blind Faith Hotel, is a young adult book that re-ceived a 2009 Green Earth Book Award from the Newton Marasco Foundation. She will join 2009 One Book South Da-kota author Dan O’Brien and Linda Has-selstrom for a session on land use and

prairie restoration. Je r r y Wi l s on’s

book, Wait ing for Coyote’s Call: My Eco-Memoir f rom the Missouri River Bluff, garnered this com ment on Libr-ary th ing.com, “If you hadn’t realized that every step you take in your life af-fects the earth, you wil l af ter reading this book. And - even better - you’ll want

to do something about it.” Greg Latza, Dan O’Brien, and Craig Childs will dis-cuss capturing the environment in pho-tos and essays; Childs will also discuss his adventures in the wild. Memoirist Ann Daum, author of The Prairie in Her Eyes, will talk about her connection with the land.

Terri Jentz, Pete Dexter, and Craig Johnson, writers with ties to the West, will present a panel discussion about vi-olence in the West.

Dr. Judith Peterson will speak on un-derstanding health through art. For a look at life’s lighter side, plan to hear author and humorist Michael Perry. His books include Truck: A Love Story, and Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Par-enting. He will appear with his band, The Long Beds.

The Multi-Faceted David Cross A LIVINGTREASURE

ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN could be featured in nearly every track. She is a found-ing editor of WicazoSaRe-view:AJournalofNativeAmericanStudies (Red PencilReview), Professor Emerita at Eastern Wash-ington University and has been writer-in-residence at various universities. Her fiction includes Aurelia: A CrowCreekTrilogy and ThePowerofHorsesandOtherStories. She’s also written poetry (IRemem-ber the Fallen Trees) and nonfiction (WhyICan’tReadWal laceStegnerand Other Essays: A Tribal Voice).

A member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Cook-Lynn mentors the Oak Lake Writers’ Society, which strengthens and preserves Lakota, Dakota, and Na-kota culture through cul-ture-based writing. She has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas and the 2009 South Dakota Living Indian Treasure Award.

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Standup comedian David Cross


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PRAIRIE TALES:SOUTH DAKOTA’S

FAIRY TALE LEGACY

THE SOUTH DAKOTA State Historical Society Press showcases the state’s chil-dren’s literature in its Prai-rie Tales Series.

Carolyn Digby Conah-an revitalized TheDiscon-tented Gopher, by L. Frank Baum, for modern readers. DanceinaBuffaloSkull is a traditional tale retold by Gertrude Simmons Bon-nin, known as Zitkala-Ša. Lakota artist S. D. Nelson’s traditional art mixed with modern styles provides visual drama. The Prairie-DogPrince, by Eva Katha-rine Gibson, is a picture book adaptation of Zau-berlinda,theWiseWitch. Carolyn Digby Conahan’s wistful illustrations pro-vide a modern character. TheRacoonandtheBeeTree,by Charles Eastman and Elaine Goodale East-man, will be published shortly before the festi-val. Rapid City artist Su-san Turnbull’s illustrations bring the 1909 story ’s charm and humor to life.

A Craftsman at Work

GARY SCHMIDT’S meticu-lous approach to writing for kids puts to shame anyone who thinks it’s easy. The Wednesday Wars, Schmidt’s 2008 Newbery Honor book,

unfolds during the 1967-68 school year in suburban Long Island (Schmidt grew up in Hicksville, Long Island). To ensure authenticity, Schmidt read the New York Times from September 1, 1967 to June 30, 1968. The tumult of the year – the assas-sinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy, the anti-war movement and the Vietnam war – provide a rich backdrop and contribute to the plot. Hol-ling Hoodhood, the book’s protagonist, follows the New York Mets and struggles with Shakespeare assignments.

Sch m id t ’s ed i tor desc r ibed T he Wednesday Wars as a comedy about se-rious things. Its tone is different than his earlier Newbery Honor and Printz Honor book, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. Set in Maine in 1912, it focuses on small-town reaction to the friendship be-tween a minister’s son and a girl descend-ed from slaves.

Schmidt writes picture books, folk tales, textbooks and adult spiritual books. He is mindful of his responsibilities. In a 2007 interview, Schmidt said his Newbery Honor awards haven’t changed his routine, but have given him, “this stronger sense that I better not mess around, that I’ve got

some responsibilities to my audience, and I need to take that responsibility very, very seriously because what I want to talk to them about are things like hope, and com-munity, and you can’t be screwing around when you’re talking to kids about hope.”

An English professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., Schmidt some-times teaches Children’s Literature with Nancy Hull, who will talk about her de-but historical novel, On Rough Seas, set in World War II England. Alec and his cous-in cling to their capsized boat in the Eng-lish Channel, but the younger boy loses his grip and disappears. Alec must deal with the consequences of taking the skiff against his father’s wishes.

Obert Skye will bring his humor, fan-tasy, and edge-of-your-seat writing. Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra will be pub-lished shortly before the festival. Elaine Alphin’s fiction is also captivating.

Award-winning illustrators Don Mon-tileaux, S.D. Nelson, Carolyn Digby Co-nahan, and Susan Turnbull will present. Montileaux and Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve will discuss “Lakota Stories for Children.”

Jessica Anderson, a writing instructor for the Institute of Children’s Literature, writes for magazines, anthologies, and has three books to her credit. Jill Esbaum, Linda Skeers and South Dakota writing duo Mark Meierhenry and David Volk will share their children’s books.

Gary Schmidt in his office.

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A SOUTH DAKOTAHOMECOMING

“VEERING FROM the sub-lime to the sublimely ri-diculous” is how Amazon.com described GoingtoSeetheElephant, Rodes Fishburne’s best-selling fiction debut. Main char-acter Slater Brown moves to San Francisco to be the

“best writer ever,” but to make a living he takes a job at the MorningTrum-pet, a 140-year-old news-paper that has been in decline for 139 years. Ad-ventures ensue, including bus rides that give Slater scoops that resurrect the Trumpet, romance with a world-class chess player, and run-ins with a das-tardly mayor and a mad scientist whose experi-ments threaten the city.

F ishburne, a gradu -ate of Pierre Riggs High School, has written for magazines and newspa-pers. Three of his plays have been produced in New York. He also spent five seasons as a fly-fish-ing guide in Alaska.

Writing the West

IS IT ACCURATE to state that this year’s fiction offerings all share one strong quality (in addition to all being darn good page turners)? At first glance, the fiction track ap-pears to epitomize variety. The

lineup presents a wide variety of authors, topics, genres, and settings. But beneath the diversity lies a commonality: a sense of place so strong that it’s almost as if each unique setting is another character.

Even when the landscape is similar, each writer puts his or her own twist on the setting to ferret out the nuances that will best contribute to a story’s need. In the opening pages of The Work of Wolves, Earl Walks Alone takes his mother’s car for a drive one Friday night after studying calculus: “The moment he left the circle of trees, he felt the wind strike the car, angling across the highway into Twisted Tree. Earl held the steering wheel against it, keeping the car straight. A great blob of white came rolling out of the sky and flattened against the windshield with a sucking sound. Earl jumped, then saw it was only a plastic grocery bag … a prairie jellyfish.”

Kent Meyers’ newly released novel, Twisted Tree, returns to a familiar land-scape, but readers will encounter an en-tirely new story line. Young Haley Jo Zim-merman is gone; her story is told through those she left behind.

In the morning, Meyers will team up with two other masters at evoking a sense of place: Lori Armstrong and Wyoming bestselling author Craig Johnson. Togeth-er, the three will provide festival visitors with excellent opportunities to learn more about what goes into crafting a successful mystery and suspense novel. Earlier that morning, Armstrong and MaryJanice Da-vidson will hold an enlightening session on breaking genre constraints for female characters.

“Sagebrush, Skylines, and the Land-

scape” will be addressed by experts: fic-tion writers Kent Meyers, and Ron Carl-son. Poet and novelist Melissa Kwasny will join them. Her latest collection, Reading Novalis in Montana, has been described as “the marriage of science and poetry in the uncompromising landscape of Big Sky Country.”

Pete Dexter’s latest novel, Spooner, is being released just before the festival. Spooner is born in Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1956, “across the street from and ap-proximately in the crosshairs of a cluster of Confederate artillery pieces guarding

the dog-spotted front lawn of the Greene Street Sons of the Confederacy Retire-ment Home.” Dexter will entertain his au-dience with selected readings.

Susan Power grew up in Chicago, but her writing in The Grass Dancer and Roofwalker transports readers to her an-cestral home in North Dakota. From her mother, Power grew up hearing stories of her tribe, the Standing Rock Sioux, as well as ancestral tales from her father’s side – New Hampshire during the Civil War. Si-mon Van Booy’s collection of short stories, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories, was published in May 2009. Publishers Weekly said, “Each of these stories has moments of sheer loveliness.”

This year’s fiction offerings are sure to provide many moments of sheer loveliness to festival-goers.

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FEW WRITERS’ work has re-ceived Stephen King’s stamp of approval, but King endorsed Ron Carlson’s 2007 book, Ron Carlson Writes a Story : “Do yourself a favor and read Ron

Carlson.” Booklist agreed, calling Carl-son “a master of the short story.” Festival attendees will discover why Carlson has received such high praise when he shares his insights in the Writer’s Support track.

Carlson knows how to help writers. He’s the director of the M.F.A. in fiction at the University of California, Irvine. He’s penned five novels, four collections of short stories and received the O. Henry prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship and a National Soci-ety of Arts and Letters Literature Award. His 2007 novel, Five Skies, was Rhode Is-land’s 2009 One Book Selection. Publish-ers Weekly called Five Skies “stunning” and “a tour de force of grief, atonement and the cost of loyalty.” Washington Post writer Michael Dirda says that Carlson “can turn even a shopping list into a poem.”

Carlson describes Ron Carlson Writes a Story as “the story of a story.” Readers accompany Carlson from inspiration to finished product as he writes a short story,

“The Governor’s Ball.” The Bloomsbury Review says, “His clear focus on the prob-lem at hand and his often simple but effec-tive solutions are inspirational.”

Carlson’s latest book, The Signal: A Novel, is a tale of love and peril involv-ing Mack and Vonnie, a husband and wife taking one last backpacking trip before they part for good. Unbeknownst to Von-nie, Mack has another reason for the trip: he is looking for something that has fallen from the sky.

Other publishing professionals bring-ing advice and encouragement include children’s authors Jill Esbaum, Elaine Alphin, Gary Schmidt, Obert Skye, and illustrator/writer Carolyn Conahan. The breadth of their knowledge spans from laugh-out-loud picture books to young adult books both serious and comic. Eliz-abeth Cook-Lynn and Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve will provide insight on tribal authorship. John Miller and Kevin Adams will discuss peer review and an editor’s role in writing history. Craig Johnson and Lori Armstrong will offer clues to craft-ing successful mystery and suspense fic-tion. Publisher Joe Mierau from Pine Hill Press and poet Gary Westgaard will dis-cuss the pros and cons of self-publishing.

The Art of Short Stories

Pete Dexter and T. D. Griffith will team up for a workshop on writing about Deadwood and the West. The workshop will be on Thursday, October 1, from 2:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Spearfish Holiday Inn Convention Center. The cost for the workshop will be $40.00.

DAKOTA PHOTOGRAPHY

ONE OF THE best days of Greg Latza’s life was re-signing from the ArgusLeader. “It was thrilling,” he says. “I felt like a huge weight was lifted from my camera bag.” The next day, Latza launched his freelancing career.

In 1999, Latza and his wife self-published BackontheFarm:CelebratingSouthDakotaFarmandRanch Families, a pictori-al study of South Dakota’s agriculture. Four thou-sand copies arrived on their doorstep in October. The book nearly sold out by Christmas.

Latza’s latest book is SiouxFalls:APhotograph-i c Journal . Others in -clude SouthDakotaSpir-it, HometownS.D.:LifeinOurSmallTowns, BlueStars (a look at 44 World War II veterans) and The Missouri (with essays by Kevin Woster).

Latza and Dr. Judith Peterson will share their photography expertise. Peterson has written for television, magazines, and books.

Ron Carlson returns to

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SITTING BULL, Crazy Horse and Red Cloud remain well-known more than 125 years af-ter battles with the U.S. govern-ment made them famous. Gall was a widely-known contem-

porary, “one of the best known American Indian leaders in the country” at the time of his death in 1894, according to author and retired history p rofe s so r Rob e r t Larson. Today his name is familiar to high-plains Indian s ch ol a r s , bu t u n -known to the general public. Gall: Lakota Warrior Chief helps reclaim the leader’s place in history.

G a l l h a d o t h e r names, but the one that stuck came af-ter he ate the gall bladder of a bison. Gall liked the name The-Man-That-Goes-in-the-Middle. U.S. soldiers called him

“Fighting Cock of the Sioux.” He was the first major Hunkpapa chief

to ratify the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. Gall, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, tried to prevent the government’s annexation of the Black Hills. Gall acted as Sitting Bull’s right hand man in battle.

Larson examines Gall’s independent streak and contrasting aspects of his char-acter. He had a fiery temper. At times he adopted controversial positions, such as in later years when he traded with white traders or rival tribes.

On June 24, 1876, two of Gall’s wives and three of his children were killed when Major Marcus Reno attacked an Indian encampment. Learning of these deaths spurred Gall in a quest for revenge. Al-though Gall’s whereabouts during parts of

the Battle of Little Big Horn are disputed, he seized his opportunity to avenge the deaths of his family members during the horseback charge across Custer Hill.

The Indian victory at Little Big Horn was followed by months of fighting as the government relentlessly pursued the Indi-

ans. The next spring Sitting Bull and Gall headed for exile in Canada.

When Sitting Bull, Gal l and thei r fol-lowers returned to the U.S. years later, the two parted ways in their approaches to dealing with the gove r n ment . Ga l l chose to work with Indian agent James McLaughlin. Larson delves into Gall’s last yea rs on Stand ing Rock Reservation to

provide a full picture of the Lakota chief. In addition to his presentation on Gall,

Larson will join Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and James Donovan for a session entitled, “Re-visiting Wounded Knee.”

Scholar John Miller delves into the complicated, collaborative relationship between mother and daughter in Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Au-thorship, Place, Time, and Culture. Miller addresses questions surrounding the pair in essays entitled Authorship: Who Wrote the Books? and “They Should Know When They’re Licked”: American Indians in Wilder’s Fiction.

Other presenters in the History and Tribal Writing Track include Kevin Ad-ams, whose specialties include the Amer-ican West; James Donovan, an expert on George Armstrong Custer; and Sean Flynn, DSU Professor and author of three books about the military.

FIRST SCHOLARLY LOOK AT Hunkpapa Sioux Leader Gall

DAKOTA CONNECTIONS

THE 44TH ANNUAL con-ference of the Western Literature Association will be in Spearfish Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. The conference’s close proximity and an overlap of interests pres-ents excellent opportuni-ties for sharing resources. Kent Meyers, Pete Dexter, Linda Hasselstrom, Eliza-beth Cook Lynn and Dan O’Brien are among those scheduled to appear at both events. This year’s theme is High Plains Drift-ing. For more information, see http://www.usu.edu/westlit/conference2009.htm.

A number of South Da-kota historians have re-cently published books about famous South Da-kotans . They inc lude WildBillHickok&Calam-ityJane:DeadwoodLeg-ends, by James McLaird; SethBullock:BlackHillsLawman, by David Wolff; and OutlawTalesofSouthDakota, by T. D. Griffith. The three authors will join forces in a Saturday morning session.


SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SILENT AUCTION

BOOK CRAZEAs a special offer to Festival goers, there will be a silent auction and a chance to pur-chase raffle tickets for dozens of books. All books are new releases, and several are au-tographed copies. The auction and raffle ticket sales will begin when the Festival opens with the Welcome Reception on Oct. 2nd at 3 p.m. Bidding and ticket sales will close on Sunday, Oct. 4th. You don’t need to be pres-ent to win. Winners will be noti-fied by email or phone.

In addition, a number of books will be included in a free raffle that will be at the Humanities Council information booth in Festival Central.

THURSDAY, October 1st2:15 – 4 :15 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS

– Holiday Inn Convention Center (Spearfish), Writer’s Support Work-shop, “Writing About Deadwood and the West,” National Book Award winner Pete Dexter and acclaimed lo-cal author T. D. Griffith will co-con-duct a workshop about writing down the West’s greatest stories. Co-spon-sored by the Western Literature As-sociation. TICKET REQUIRED

7:00 – 9 :00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Homestake Opera House (Lead), “TRASH: Truly Rational And Sane Humans,” Enjoy a side-splitting per-formance by a local group of ladies who believes that laughter is the best medicine and sing songs about subjects such as hemorrhoids, PMS and menopause. Find more informa-tion about this performance at www.trashlive.org. TICKET REQUIRED To order tickets, call 800-456-0766 (ask for Sami) or email [email protected]

FRIDAY, October 2nd10 : 0 0 AM – 4 : 0 0 PM ~ SPECIAL

EVENTS – Deadwood Public Library, SD State Poetry Society Meeting

9:00 – 11:00 AM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Public Library Down-stairs, Writer’s Support Workshop,

“Fun with Quincy and Marilyn!,” award winning poets Marilyn Chin and Quincy Troupe will co-conduct an unforgettable poetry workshop. Co-sponsored by the SD State Poetry Society. TICKET REQUIRED

11: 00 AM – 12 : 00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Pavil ion /Chamber of Commerce, “Food for Thought,” Live broadcast of South Dakota Public Radio’s literary arts ra-dio show

12:00 – 1:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Social Club, “The Da-kota Diet,” Join Dr. Kevin Weiland as he discusses his book The Dakota Diet, which has helped readers enjoy a uniquely healthy diet rich in ome-ga-3 fatty acids and nutrients found on the plains of the Dakotas. TICKET REQUIRED

3:00 – 3:45 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Public Library, “Wild Woman Poetry and Revenge Tales!” Marilyn Chin reads at the South Da-kota State Poetry Society Tea

3:00 – 6:00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce, Festival Central open

3:00 – 4:00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce, “Life on the Farm & Ranch: Selected Readings,” Join SDSU professor emeritus John E. Mill-er, the editor of Life on the Farm & Ranch, as he and several contributors read stories from the book. Life on the Farm & Ranch is the newest book in the South Dakota Stories series and will be published in 2009 by the South Dakota Humanities Council

4:00 – 5:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce, “Early Bird Book Sign-ings at Festival Central”

6:00 – 8:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Martin & Mason Hotel, 1898 Ball-room, “Literary Feast: Rapture & Ruin,” with Charles Bowden, Ron Carlson, Ann Daum, Pete Dexter, Linda Hasselstrom, Dan O’Brien, and Susan Power. Hosted by Rick Bass. TICKET REQUIRED

7:00 – 8:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “I Drink

TICKETS REQUIREDThepublicisinvitedtopurchaseticketsforthreespecialeventsattheFestivalofBooks.Purchaseyourticketsinad-vancefromtheSouthDakotaHumani-tiesCouncil.Call(605)688-6113.

Friday:LunchwithKevinWei-land$15.00Friday:LiteraryFeast$35.00Saturday:MichaelPerryandtheLongBeds$15.00

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS for a Reason,” Join stand-up come-dian, actor, writer and subculture su-perhero David Cross as he discusses his new book I Drink for a Reason

8:00 – 10:00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Saloon #10, “Rock Garden Tour” Keep it rural with Flowerman and Oil Can by joining them for a live taping of Rock Garden Tour, South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s gardening and rock and roll radio show

9:00 – 11:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Masonic Temple Upstairs, “Imprint,” Join Michael and Carolyn Linn for a screening and of the feature film Im-print, a Native American thriller star-ring Tonantzin Carmelo and directed by Michael Linn. Michael and Caro-lyn Linn will take questions about the film after the screening

9:00 – 11:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Open Mic Readings”

SATURDAY, October 3rd9:00 – 7:00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS

– Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce, Festival Central open

9:00 – 4:00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Elementary School Gym, “Dinostories,” Hosted by HOP – Hands-On Partnership for Science, Literature and Art in South Dakota

9:00 – 9:45 AM ~ FICTION – Silverado Clubhouse, “Nice Girls, Bad Girls—Breaking Genre Constraints,” Lori Armstrong & MaryJanice Davidson

9:00 – 9:45 AM ~ FICTION – Franklin Hotel Emerald Room, “Love Begins in Winter,” Simon Van Booy

9:00 – 9:45 AM ~ NON-FICTION – Ma-sonic Temple Main Floor, “Wilder-ness Legislation in the Yaak,” Rick Bass

9 :00 – 9 :45 AM ~ POETRY – Dead-wood Library Upstairs, “The Book of Props: Selected Readings,” Wayne Miller

9 : 00 – 9 : 45 AM ~ CHILDREN’S/

YOUTH – Deadwood Elementary School Auditorium, “The Mystery of the Maize,” Mark Meierhenry and David Volk

9:00 – 9:45 AM ~ HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Gall and the Yellowstone Campaigns,” Robert W. Larson

9:00 – 9:45 AM ~ WRITER’S SUPPORT – St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, “Print and Photography: Working with Publishers,” Greg Latza and Judith Peterson

10:00 – 10:45 AM ~ FICTION – Mason-ic Temple Main Floor, “Twisted Tree: Selected Readings,” Kent Meyers

10:00 – 10:45 AM ~ NON-FICTION – Silverado Clubhouse, “Adventures in the Wild,” Craig Childs

10:00 – 10:45 AM ~ POETRY – Dead-wood Library Upstairs, “Dakota Po-etry,” David Allan Evans, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, and Linda Hasselstrom

10 : 00 – 10 :45 AM ~ CHILDREN’S/YOUTH – Deadwood Elementary School Auditorium, “Amazing AHA! Moments,” Linda Skeers

10 : 00 – 10 :45 AM ~ CHILDREN’S/YOUTH – Deadwood Elementa-ry School Gym, “Prairie Tales Story Time,” Carolyn Digby Conahan, S.D. Nelson, and Susan Turnbull

10:00 – 10:45 AM ~ HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Class and Race in the Frontier Army,” Kevin Adams

10:00 – 10 :45 AM ~ WRITER’S SUP-PORT – St. Ambrose Catholic Par-ish, “From Idea to Bookshelf,” Elaine Marie Alphin, Jill Esbaum, and Gary Schmidt

11:00 – 12:15 AM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Crime Wave: Brown Bag Luncheon,” Lori Armstrong, Craig Johnson, and Kent Meyers

11:00 – 11:45 AM ~ NON-FICTION – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Un-


SCHEDULE OF EVENTS CONTINUEDderstanding Health Through Art,” Judith Peterson

11:00 – 11:45 AM ~ NON-FICTION – Franklin Hotel Emerald Room, “Wait-ing for Coyote’s Call,” Jerry Wilson

11:00 – 11:45 AM ~ POETRY – Dead-wood Library Upstairs, “Reading No-valis in Montana: Selected Readings,” Melissa Kwasny

11:00 – 11:45 AM ~ POETRY – Dead-wood Library Downstairs, “Spiritu-al Writing,” Daniel Burow and Gary Westgard

11: 00 – 11:45 AM ~ CHILDREN’S/YOUTH – Deadwood Elementary School Auditorium, “Lakota Stories for Children,” Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve and Don Montileaux

11:00 – 11:45 AM ~ HISTORY/TRIB-AL WRITERS – St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, “Law and Order: Seth Bullock, Wild Bill Hickok, and the Outlaws of Deadwood,” T.D. Griffith, Jim McLaird, and David Wolff

11:00 – 11:45 AM ~ WRITER’S SUP-PORT – Silverado Clubhouse, “Ron Carlson Writes a Story,” Ron Carlson

12:30 – 2:00 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Pavilion/Chamber of Commerce, “Book Signings at Festi-val Central”

1:00 – 2:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Elementary School Room 256, “South Dakota Literacy Council Meeting” Free and open to the public

2:00 – 2:45 PM ~ FICTION – Silverado Clubhouse, “What Novelists Learn from the Dakotas,” Rodes Fishburne

2:00 – 2:45 PM ~ NON-FICTION – Ma-sonic Temple Main Floor, “Land Use and Prairie Restoration,” Linda Has-selstrom, Dan O’Brien, Pamela Todd, and Jerry Wilson

2 :00 – 2 :45 PM ~ POETRY – Dead-wood Library Upstairs, “Poetry and Music by Alaska’s Fiddling Poet,” Ken Waldman

2 : 0 0 – 2 : 45 PM ~ CHILDREN’S/

YOUTH – Deadwood Elementa-ry School Auditorium, “Writing for Young Readers,” Gary Schmidt

2:00 – 2:45 PM ~ HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS – Adams Museum Pio-neer Room, “Frontier Women: Laura Ingalls Wilder & Rose Wilder Lane,” John E. Miller

2:00 – 2:45 PM ~ WRITER’S SUPPORT – Franklin Hotel Emerald Room, “Self Publishing 101,” Gary Westgard and Joe Mierau

2:00 – 2:45 PM ~ FICTION – Masonic Temple Upstairs, “Are There Really Vampires in Minnesota,” MaryJanice Davidson

3:00 – 3:45 PM ~ FICTION – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Spooner: Select-ed Readings,” Pete Dexter

3:00 – 3:45 PM ~ NON-FICTION – St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, “Teaching Writing in the Prison System,” Jim Re-ese and Pamela Todd

3 : 00 – 3 :45 PM ~ NON-FICTION – Deadwood Library Downstairs, “Se-lected Readings,” Ann Daum

3:00 – 3 :45 PM ~ POETRY – Dead-wood Library Upstairs, “Favorite Verses,” Wayne Miller, Jim Reese, and Simon Van Booy

3 : 0 0 – 3 : 45 PM ~ CHILDREN’S/YOUTH – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Book in a Box: Using Old Stuff to Tell New Stories,” Nancy Hull

3:00 – 3:45 PM ~ HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS – Franklin Hotel Emerald Room, “The Enduring Significance of the Wounded Knee Creek Mas-sacre,” Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, James Donovan, and Robert W. Larson

3:00 – 3:45 PM ~ WRITER’S SUPPORT – Deadwood Elementary School Au-ditorium, “The Writing Life,” Elaine Alphin, Obert Skye, and Carolyn Dig-by Conahan

4:00 – 4:45 PM ~ FICTION – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Our Lady of the New World: The Novel as Spiritual Journey,” Susan Power

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Timeandpresenterslistedaresubjecttochange.Pleasecheck“TheFes-tivalSurvivor’sGuide”intheinformationboothlocatedinFestivalCen-tralorvisitwww.sdbookfestival.comforanychanges.

4:00 – 4:45 PM ~ NON-FICTION – Ad-ams Museum Pioneer Room, “Cap-turing the Environment in Photos and Essays,” Craig Childs, Greg Latza, and Dan O’Brien

4 :00 – 4 :45 PM ~ POETRY – Dead-wood Library Downstairs, “Readings from South Dakota’s Poet Laureate,” David Allan Evans

4 : 0 0 – 4 : 45 PM ~ CHILDREN’S/YOUTH – Deadwood Elementary School Auditorium, “Leven Thumps: The Wrath of Ezra,” Obert Skye

4:00 – 4:45 PM ~ HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS – Deadwood Library Up-stairs, “A Terrible Glory: Custer & The Battle of Little Bighorn,” James Donovan

4:00 – 4:45 PM ~ WRITER’S SUPPORT – St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, “Peer Review and the Role of an Editor in Writing About History,” Kevin Ad-ams, John Miller, and David Wolff

5:00 – 5:45 PM ~ FICTION – St. Am-brose Catholic Parish, “Sagebrush, Skylines, and the Landscape,” Ron Carlson, Melissa Kwasny, and Kent Meyers

5: 00 – 5 :45 PM ~ NON-FICTION – Deadwood Elementary School Au-ditorium, “Violence in the West,” Craig Johnson, Pete Dexter, and Terri Jentz

5:00 – 5 :45 PM ~ POETRY – Dead-wood Library Upstairs, “Selected Readings,” Quincy Troupe

5 : 0 0 – 5 : 45 PM ~ CHILDREN’S/YOUTH – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Creative Memories” Jessica Lee Anderson

5 : 00 – 5 : 45 PM ~ HISTORY/TRIB-AL WRITERS – Deadwood Library Downstairs, “Mission to Germany: William ‘Bud’ Gassen and the 457th Bomb Group,” Sean Flynn

5:00 – 5:45 PM ~ WRITER’S SUPPORT – Masonic Temple Main Floor, “Pursu-ing Authentic Tales of South Dakota,” Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, and Jim McLaird

7:30 – 10 :00 ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Deadwood Gulch Convention Center,

“Michael Perry and the Long Beds,” Author, humorist, and singer/song-writer Michael Perry and his band the Long Beds will keep you laugh-ing with this unique blend of comedy and music. TICKET REQUIRED

10 : 00 PM – 12 : 00 AM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Adams Museum Pioneer Room, “Ghost Stories,” Join the Black Hills Storytellers for a night of ghastly tales and spooky stories about apparitions, the living dead, and more. Performance intended for adults and teenagers. Space is limited. Call the Adams Museum at (605)578-1928 to RSVP

SUNDAY, October 4th9:00 AM - 2:30 PM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS

– Holiday Inn Mystic Room, “Dakota Writing Project 2009 Writing Mara-thon,” Discover a goldmine of words inside you at the Dakota Writing Proj-ect 2009 Writing Marathon! Write in a supportive atmosphere while exploring scenic Deadwood. TICK-ET REQUIRED: $15. Contact Nancy Kampfe at [email protected] to RSVP or for more information.

9:00 – 11:00 AM ~ SPECIAL EVENTS – Tatanka: Story of the Bison, “Per-spectives on Cultural Legacies,” Join Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Virginia Driv-ing Hawk Sneve, Don Montileaux, S.D. Nelson, Susan Power, and Susan Turnbull for a discussion of American Indian stories and storytelling. TICK-ET REQUIRED: Bring one non-per-ishable food item for admission to this event. All items will be donated to the Lord’s Cupboard in Lead, SD

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r e n d e z v o u s

EXHIBITORS’ HALL

AUTHORSJane Green, Clark

Linda Johnson,Sioux Falls

Marty Jolley,Black Hawk

Alice Kegley,

Barbara Roseland,Seneca

Phyllis Schmidt,Lemmon

Bill Walken,Belle Fourche

BOOKSELLERSBorder’s Books & Cafe, Rapid City,www.borders.com

Prairie Edge Trading Co. & Galleries, Rapid City, www.prairieedge.com

Scholastic Book Fair, Hosted by Paha Sapa Reading Council

MUSEUMSAdams Museum & House, Deadwood, www.adamsmuseumandhouse.org

S.D. Ag Heritage Museum,Brookings, www.agmuseum.com

ORGANIZATIONSCenter for Western Studies,Sioux Falls, www.augie.edu/cws/

Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission, Deadwood, www.cityofdeadwood.com

Historic Deadwood Lead Arts Council,Lead, www.deadwoodleadartscouncil.com

Literacy Council of the Black Hills, Rapid City, www.readsd.org

S.D. Literacy Council, Volga,www.readsd.org

S.D. Public Broadcasting, Vermillion, www.sdpb.org

S.D. Tourism Dept., Pierre,www.travelsd.com

PRESSESS.D. State Historical Society Press,Pierre, www.sdshspress.com

Pine Hill Press, Sioux Falls,www.pinehillpress.com

TheExhibitorsHallislocatedintheDeadwoodPavilion/ChamberofCommerce.OpenFridayfrom3–6p.m.andagainonSaturdayfrom9a.m.–7p.m.


PRESENTERSKEVIN ADAMS

Kevin Adams is As-sistant Professor of History at Kent State Univers i ty in Kent, Ohio. He is an his-torian of the United States with a special interest in war & society, Gilded Age America, and the History of the American West. His most recent book, Class and Race in the Frontier Army, was published by the University Oklahoma Press in 2009.

ELAINE MARIE ALPHINwww.elainemariealphin.com

Elaine Marie Alphin has authored more than 20 books for young read-ers and teenagers, including the Edgar Award winning mystery, Counterfeit Son, and has lived in San Francisco, New York City, Houston, TX, up-state New York, Southern Indiana, midstate Wyoming, midstate South Dakota, Bozeman, MT, and York, England.

JESSICA LEE ANDERSONwww.jessicaleeanderson.com

Jessica Lee Ander-son’s passion is writ-ing literature for chil-dren. She released her first novel, Trudy in 2005. She later re-leased Border Cross-ing in fall 2009. She has written fiction and non-fiction for Highlights for Children, Highlights High Five, Stories for Children Maga-zine, Wee Ones Magazine, and Holi-day Crafts 4 Kids. She is currently an instructor at the Institute of Children’s Literature.

LORI ARMSTRONGwww.loriarmstrong.com

Lori Armstrong left the firearms in-dustry in 2000 to pursue her dream of writing crime fiction. A nominee for the Shamus Award, Daphne du Mau-rier Award, and the 2008 High Plains Book award, she won the Willa Cather

Literary Award in 2007. The first book in Mercy Gunderson series, No Mercy, will be released in hardcover in Janu-ary 2010 from Touch Fireside, an im-print of Simon and Schuster. RICK BASS

Dubbed “Nature Writer” by book-stores and critics, Rick Bass’s works are concerned with the nature of the human heart and the heart of nature. The son of a geologist, Bass took an early interest in the natural world. He earned a B.S. at Utah State University in 1979 and worked as a petroleum geologist for several years. Bass has lived around the South and South-west, including stints in Mississippi from 1979 to 1987 as a petroleum ge-ologist in charge of prospect ing for new wells, an experience that formed the basis for his book Oil Notes (1989). He currently lives and works in the Yaak Valley in Montana.

CHARLES BOWDENCharles Bowden is the author of

eleven books including A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Dog; Down By the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family; Juárez: The Labo-ratory of our Future; Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America; Desier-to: Memories of the Future; Red Line; Blue Desert; and (with Michael Bin-stein) Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions. He is a contribut-ing editor of Esquire, and also writes for other magazines such as Harper’s and The New York Times Book Review. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

DANIEL BUROWwww.danielburow.com

Dr. Daniel Burow is a psychologist specializing in geriatrics, existential is-sues and psychological trauma. “Reb-els, Poets, and Mystics” records Dr. Burow’s relationship with Fr. Frahm, a

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PRESENTERSpoet and teacher in the Christian mys-tical tradition, and the basics of his teachings. RON CARLSON

Ron Carlson is a professor of English and the director of UC Irvine’s MFA fic-tion writing program. Carlson’s short stories have been published in Esquire, Harper’s, The New Yorker and Gentle-men’s Quarterly. He is the author of nine fiction books and his latest work, Ron Carlson Writes a Story, guides readers step-by-step through the pro-cess of writing a work of fiction.

CRAIG CHILDSwww.houseofrain.com

Craig Childs is writer who focuses o n n a t u r a l s c i -ences, archaeol-ogy, and mind-blowing journeys into the wi lder-ness. He has pub-lished more than a dozen critically acclaimed books on nature, science, and adventure. He is a commentator for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Journal, Outside and Orion. His subjects range from pre-Columbian archaeology to US border issues to the last free-flow-ing rivers of Tibet.

MARILYN CHINMarilyn Chin was born in Hong

Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her books have become Asian Amer-ican classics and are taught in class-rooms internationally. Chin has won numerous awards for her poetry, in-cluding ones from the Radcliffe Insti-tute at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foun-dation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received a Steg-ner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, four Pushcart Prizes, the Paterson Prize, and a Fulbright Fellow-ship to Taiwan. She co-directs the MFA

program at San Diego State University.

DAVID CROSSWith a wide range of comedic tal-

ents, David Cross first hit the scene as a stand-up comedian, and later moved to TV, where his work as a wr i ter earned him an Emmy award and seve ra l nom i -nations. He has also been nominated for a Grammy award for one of his two come-dy CD’s. Cross has appeared in such films as Men in Black, Kung Fu Panda, and Curious George. On the televi-sion side, Cross appeared in the Emmy Award winning comedy, Arrested De-velopment, as Tobias Fünke.

CAROLYN DIGBY CONAHANwww.carolyndigbyconahan.com

Carolyn Digby Conahan has written and illustrated numerous children’s books. She has illustrated two sto-rybooks for the South Dakota State Historical Society Press: The Discon-tented Gopher and The Prairie-Dog Prince. She also illustrated Bubble Homes & Fish Farts, a nonfiction pic-ture book written by Fiona Bayrock, which will be released in February 2009. Carolyn wrote and illustrated The Wish Farm, a picture book to be published by Chronicle in spring 2010.

ELIZABETH COOK-LYNNElizabeth Cook-Lynn is a retired Pro-

fessor Emerita in Indian Studies and Humanit ies f rom Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington, where she co-founded the journal Wicazo Sa Review , a Nat ive American Studies Journal with Bea Medicine, Roger Buffalohead and Wil-liam Willard. She has been a visiting professor in Indian Studies at UC Davis and Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. She has published 11 books

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PRESENTERSand is at work on two manuscripts.

ANN DAUMFeelance writer Daum is a resident

of Okaton, SD and authored The Prai-rie in Her Eyes, a series of essays about ranching in the modern West. She re-ceived a Bush Artist Fellowship in 1999.

PETE DEXTERPete Dexter is the author of the

National Book Award winner Par-is Trout and of God’s Pocket, Dead-wood, Brotherly Love, and The Pa-perboy. He was born in Michigan and raised in Georgia, Illinois, and eastern South Dakota. He lives in Puget Sound, Washington.

JAMES DONOVANJames Donovan is the New York

Times Bestselling author of the clas-sic illustrated account of Custer’s Last Stand, Custer and the Little Bighorn,

and most recently A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Big Horn—the Last Great Battle of the American West. He lives in Dallas.

VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK SNEVE

Virg in ia Dr iv ing H a w k S n e v e w a s born and raised on the Rosebud Reser-vation in South Dako-ta and is an enrolled member of the Rose-bud Sioux tribe. For 25 years she was an educator in BIA, Public schools, and colleges in South Dakota. Since 1972, she has published over 20 books, numerous short stories, articles, and poems.

JILL ESBAUMwww.jillesbaum.com

Jill Esbaum is the author of Stink

Soup, Ste-e-e-e-eamboat A-Comin’!, Estelle Takes a Bath, To the Big Top, Stanza, and two new nonfiction pic-ture books from National Geographic Kids, APPLES for Everyone and Seed, Sprout, PUMPKIN, Pie. Jill is an instruc-tor for The Institute of Children’s Lit-erature and is the Quad Cities Network Chair for the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators.

DAVID ALLAN EVANSDavid Allan Evans started college on

a football scholarship and by the time he graduated, he was writing poems and short stories. Evans was profes-sor of English and writer in residence at SDSU for many years and recently retired. He is the author of nine books and chapbooks of poems and several

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PRESENTERSbooks of prose. His poems, short sto-ries, and nonfiction have been pub-lished in many magazines and journals and in over 75 anthologies.

RODES FISHBURNEwww.rodesfishburne.com

For over ten years, Rodes Fishburne has been published in magazines and newspapers, including The New York-er, The New York Times, San Francis-co Chronicle Magazine, and Forbes ASAP, where he was the editor of the acclaimed “Big Issue,” an annual mag-azine of literary essays from leading writers and thinkers including: Tom Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, Muhammad Ali, and the Dalai Lama. The “Big Is-sue,” was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2000.

SEAN J. FLYNNSean J. Flynn is Associate Professor

of History at Dakota Wesleyan Uni-

vers i ty and the author of three books. His most recent, Mission to Germany: William

“Bud” Gassen and the 457th Bomb Group, released

in 2009, tells the story of a South Da-kota native who flew 28 combat mis-sions in a B-17 during World War II. Dr. Flynn continues to conduct research on American military history.

T. D. GriffithT. D. Griffith has written or co-au-

thored more than 50 books, including America’s Shrine of Democracy with a foreword by President Ronald Reagan, South Dakota, a comprehensive guide to the state, A Winning Tradition: The Greeno Story with a foreword by NBC’s Tom Brokaw, and Outlaw Tales of South Dakota. He has been a con-

tributing writer to Random House and Globe Pequot for two decades.

LINDA HASSELSTROMwww.windbreakhouse.com

Linda Hasselstrom is an award-win-ning poet and writer of the High Plains whose work is rooted in the landscape of western South Dakota. Linda con-ducts writing retreats on her Hermosa-area family ranch, where she is work-ing with the Great Plains Native Plant Society and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory to improve grassland and r ipar ian hab i ta t for p lants and wildlife.

NANCY HULLwww.nancyhull.net

Nancy Hull teach-es writing and chil-dren’s l i te rature at Calvin College in Grand Rapids,

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PRESENTERSMichigan. When she’s not teaching, she is often at the library or on some research trip—with her husband or one of her sons—to discover lively de-tails for her next novel.

TERRI JENTZTerri Jentz grew up on the Dako-

ta prairies before moving east to the Chicago suburbs, then further east to attend Yale University. She is current-ly a screenwriter in Los Angeles and works with Equality Now. In 1977, she was a victim of an attack and wrote about her experience in her first book, Strange Piece of Paradise: A Return to the American West to Investigate My Attempted Murder — And Solve the Mystery of Myself. Jentz was an Edgar, NBCC and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in 2006.

CRAIG JOHNSONwww.craigallenjohnson.com

Craig Johnson is the author of the Book Sense and Killer picks Death Without C o m p a n y a n d The Co ld D i sh , both featuring Walt Longmire. The Cold Dish was also chosen as a DILYS finalist, and Death Without Company received the Wyoming Historical Soci-ety Award for fiction as well as being a finalist for The Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award. Another Man’s Moccasins, the fourth in the series won the Spur Award for the Western Writers of America Novel of the Year.

MELISSA KWASNYMelissa Kwasny is the author of

three books of poetry, The Archi-val Birds, Thistle, which won the Ida-ho Prize for 2005, and most recently, Reading Novalis in Montana. Widely published in journals, including Wil-low Springs, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Bell-ingham Review, Crab Orchard Review, and River Styx.

ROBERT W. LARSONRobert W. Larson is retired as a

Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley and the author of numerous articles and books. His latest book, Gall: Lakota War Chief, won the Spur award, the Robert M. Butley, and the Western-ers International Co-Founders “Best Book” Award. The Denver Posse of Westerners honored him in 2006 with its Fred A. Rosenstock Award for Life-time Achievement in Western History.

GREG LATZAwww.peoplescapes.com

Greg Latza is a freelance photogra-pher based in Sioux Falls. The majority of his work centers around agriculture and people associated with farming and the prairie. He has been published in magazines ranging from Newsweek and Rolling Stone to Successful Farm-ing and South Dakota Magazine. He and his wife Jodi Holley Latza, a free-lance graphic designer, have pub-lished seven photography books about South Dakota, their favorite muse.

MICHAEL AND CAROLYN LINNwww.linnproductions.com

Michael and L inn Product ions teamed up with Native American film-maker Chris Eyre to create Imprint, a contemporary supernatural thriller us-ing an almost exclusively Native Ameri-can cast. Michael co-wrote, directed, shot, and edited the movie. Carolyn is the executive producer of the project, and also produced, overseeing casting, budget, locations, scheduling, and wardrobe. The Linn family owns Linn Productions in Rapid City.

JIM MCLAIRDJim McLaird is a history professor

emeritus at Dakota Wesleyan Uni-versity who is a leading authority on Deadwood’s infamous Calamity Jane. In 2005, Calamity Jane: The Life and The Legend was released. His new book is Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends which was

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released in August 2008. He is the au-thor of numerous articles on western history and mythmaking, focusing on the Black Hills.

MARK MEIERHENRYMark Meierhenry, a Sioux Falls at-

torney, recently co-wrote the children’s book The Mystery of the Round Rocks, published by the South Dakota State Historical Society Press. Meierhenry was elected South Dakota Attorney General, serving from 1979-1986.

KENT MEYERSKent Meyers is the author of several

novels, with Twisted Tree, his most re-cent novel, hitting shelves in fall 2009. He lives in Spearfish, South Dakota, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Black Hills State Univer-sity. His work has been anthologized in The Best of the West series, and in Best American Mystery Stories. He has

won fiction awards from Crazyhorse, The Southern Humanities Review, The Black Warrior Review, and The Minne-sota Monthly.

JOE MIERAUFor the past 20 years, Joe Mierau

has managed Pine Hill Press, a small book printing company in Sioux Falls that he owns together with his wife Mary Ann. Joe and Mary Ann are the parents of five grown children and the grandparents of three pre-school grandchildren.

JOHN E. MILLERJohn E. Miller is

the author of Lau-ra Ingalls Wilder’s Little Town: Where History and Litera-ture Meet and Be-coming Laura In-galls Wilder: The

Woman behind the Legend. His most recent book is Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture. He is a retired Pro-fessor Emeritus of History at South Dakota State University and lives in Brookings.

WAYNE MILLERwww.onlythesenses.com

Wayne Miller is the author of two poetry collections, The Book of Props and Only the Sens-es Sleep, which re-ceived the 2007 W i l l i am Rockh-ill Nelson Award. The th ree - t ime recipient of the Lucil le Medwick Memorial Award (2004, 2005, and 2007), the George Bogin Memorial Award, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and the Bess Hokin Prize,

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PRESENTERSMiller currently lives in Kansas City and teaches at the University of Cen-tral Missouri.

DON MONTILEAUXwww.montileaux.com

Don Monti leaux is a world-re-nowned artist and illustrator and is an enrolled member of the Oglala La-kota Tribe. He has received nearly 20 awards and commissions and attend-ed over 25 major art shows through-out his artistic career. His art is illus-trated on the cover of six books, work is included in numerous private collec-tions as well as public, and has been featured artist in art galleries in New Mexico, Minnesota, Arizona, Colora-do, as well as South Dakota.

S.D. NELSONwww.sdnelson.net

S. D. Nelson is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the Da-kotas. He has written and illustrated numerous award-winning children’s books. Nelson’s artwork also appears on book jackets, greeting cards, and CD covers, and his paintings are held in both private and public collections.

DAN O’BRIENDan O’Brien, a writer and buffalo

rancher, is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction about the West. He has worked as an endan-gered-species biologist and an Eng-lish teacher. His 2001 memoir, Buffalo for the Broken Heart, was selected as the 2009 One Book South Dakota. He lives on his ranch near Hermosa, South Dakota.

MICHAEL PERRY AND THE LONG BEDSwww.sneezingcow.com

Michael Perry is a humorist and au-thor of several bestselling memoirs and essay collections. Perry has writ-ten for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Backpacker, Orion and Salon.com, and is a contributing editor to Men’s Health. The Long Beds

are a rotating cast of characters who basically consent to s tare at the backside of Mi-chael Perry so he can pretend he’s a musician, which he’s not. He likes to wr i te songs and sing them, and knows maybe five chords, but he plays his guitar with all the nuance of a man cutting brush. The Long Beds, on the other hand, are real pros. And charitable.

DR. JUDITH PETERSONIn addition to being a practicing

physician, Dr. Judith Peterson is a local photographer who specializes in bo-tanical, land-scape, sports, medica l and f ine art pho-tography. Her recently pub-l i shed book , The Picture of Health: A View from the Prairie features her photography and essays by Dr. Rick Holm.

SUSAN POWERSusan Power is the author of the na-

tional bestseller The Grass Dancer. She also released Roofwalker in 2004. She is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and has earned an undergraduate and J.D. from Harvard. Power’s fiction has appeared in Atlan-tic Monthly and Paris Review.

JIM REESEJim Reese is an Assistant Professor

of English; Director of the Great Plains Writers’ Tour at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota; and Editor-in-Chief of PADDLEFISH. His most re-cent collection of poetry is These Tres-passes, which includes Pushcart Prize nominated poems. Reese is also the 2008 and 2009 National Endowment for the Art’s Writer-in-Residence at the Yankton Federal Prison Camp.

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PRESENTERSGARY SCHMIDT

Gary D. Schmidt is the author of more than fifteen books for chil-dren and young adults, including The Wednesday Wars, a 2008 Newbery Honor Award winner, and Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, which won a Newbery Honor award and a Mi-chael L. Printz Honor award in 2005. His newest novel, Trouble, came out in spring 2008. He is a professor in the English department at Calvin College and lives on a farm in Alto, Michigan, with his wife and six children.

LINDA SKEERSwww.linda-skeers.com

Linda Skeers is the author of The Impossible Patrio-tism Project and Tu-tus Aren’t My Style and the collective biography History

Makers: TOY MAKERS. Linda is an in-structor for the Institute of Children’s Literature.

OBERT SKYEwww.leventhumps.com

Obert Skye doesn’t like to give a lot of details in his biography. For exam-ple, he likes to say that he was “born a number of years ago in a town about the size of the one you are living in.” More than wanting to remain anony-mous, Skye just wants us to leave the rest of the story to our imagination, something he excels at. He is the au-thor of the bestselling Leven Thumps series. The fifth installment, titled Lev-en Thumps and the Ruins of Alder, will be released in October 2009.

PAMELA TODDwww.pamelatodd.com

Pamela Todd is the author of The Blind Faith Hotel and Pig and the

Shrink. She is an avid prairie gardener, a core teaching artist for the Ragda-le Foundation, and a popular speaker at schools, conferences, and events. She’s been awarded grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

QUINCY TROUPEQuincy Troupe is an award-winning

author, poet, and screenwriter. Among his honors and awards are fellowships from the National Foundation for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. He has taught at the University of California--San Di-ego, and Columbia University. He was the first official poet laureate of the state of California. Troupe

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PRESENTERSlives with his wife, Margaret, and son Porter, in La Jolla, CA.

SUSAN TURNBULLSusan Turnbull is an award-winning

illustrator and artist from Rapid City, South Dakota. She has illustrated nu-merous books, and her art has been shown in galleries across the country from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

SIMON VAN BOOYwww.simonvanbooy.com

Simon Van Booy was born in Lon-don and grew up in rural Wales and Oxford. In 2002 he was awarded an MFA and won the H.R. Hays Poetry Prize. His journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the New York Times and the New York Post. Van Booy is the author of The Se-cret Lives of People in Love, now trans-lated into several languages. He lives in New York City.

DAVID VOLKDavid Volk recently co-wrote the

children’s book The Mystery of the Round Rocks, published by the South

D a k o t a S t a t e H i s tor i ca l Soc i -ety Press. Volk is a five-time state t r e a s u r e r a n d se rved as cab i -net secretary of Governor William

Janklow. He holds a bachelor’s de-gree in education from Northern State University.

KEN WALDMANwww.kenwaldman.com

Ken Waldman has toured through-out North America as Alaska’s Fiddling Poet since 1995. He is the author of six poetry collections and has released nine CDs. Are You Famous?, his first book of prose, is part memoir, part travel notes, and part artist how-to. A Blue Highways for our time.

DR. KEVIN WEILANDwww.dakotadiet.com

Dr. Kevin Weiland is a practicing physician, board certified in the spe-

c i a l t y o f in te r na l medicine. He devel-oped The Dakota Diet as a way to real-istically address nutri-tion and health with his patients. Dr. Wei-land has been recog-nized with numerous

awards for his community service as well as his ongoing work with school nutrition and childhood obesity.

GARY WESTGARDGary Westgard served as a Lutheran

pastor for congregations in Nebraska and South Dakota for 35 years (1969-2004). In January of 2005, Gary began writing poetry and in 2007 he contact-ed Joe Mierau, owner of Pine Hill Press in Sioux Falls, who helped him through the process of self publishing. Gary’s book, The Journey and the Grace was published in June of 2007.

JERRY WILSONJ e r r y W i l s o n

is a retired Eng-lish professor and freelance journal-ist. He grew up on a farm in Oklaho-ma, where he de-veloped his appre-ciation for nature and the wild, before moving to South Dakota and putting it all into practice. Wilson is the author of Waiting for Coyote’s Call: An Eco-Memoir from the Missouri River Bluff. He lives near Vermillion, South Dakota.

DAVID A. WOLFFDavid A. Wolff is associate professor

of history at Black Hills State Univer-sity in Spearfish, South Dakota. He is an award-winning author focusing on Black Hills, South Dakota, mining, and western history.

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