S226. CANCELLED: Singing Still: A Tribute to LeAnne Howe
Status: Not Accepted
Saturday, March 7, 2020
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Participants
Travis Hedge Coke is a writer, editor, and teacher, working with Along the Chaparral to story interred veterans at the Riverside National Cemetery. He is the former writer of the Hugo-nominated Pop Medicine column and current author of the weekly, Patricia Highsmash, from Comic Watch.
Oscar Hokeah is a regionalist Native American writer of literary fiction, interested in capturing intertribal, multicultural, and transnational aspects within a contemporary Native landscape. He is half Native American (Kiowa/Cherokee) and half Hispanic.
Ryan Neighbors is a lecturer at Texas A&M University in McAllen where he teaches writing, literature, and film courses. His prose and poetry have appeared in a variety of journals, including Tampa Review, Stoneboat Literary Journal, The Barely South Review, and elsewhere.
Deborah Taffa teaches creative nonfiction at Washington University in St Louis. Her work has appeared in Salon, A Public Space, The Best American series, and elsewhere. She'll read her desert poetry onstage at the Lincoln Center with R. Carlos Nakai in 2020. A memoir about life on the res is forthcoming.