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Indigenous Stories & Literary Stewardship: Evolving & Protecting Our Narratives
Saturday, February 10, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
How can Indigenous writers resist the “western gaze” and honor the multiplicity of their identities while respecting their communities and cultures? In this panel, published poets and fiction writers discuss craft choices, ethical questions, and publishing and editing concerns that affect the Indigenous writer and their work. The panelists will explore the Indigenous literary canon, focusing on Western literary exploitation and objectification of Indigenous storytelling, and discuss its future.
Participants
Marisa Tirado is the author of Selena Didn't Notice Spanish Either from Texas Review Press (2022). Her work can be found in Virginia Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches writing at UC-Boulder.
Stacie Denetsosie is a Diné (Navajo Nation) fiction writer; she is Bitterwater clan and is born for the Mexican clan. She is from Kayenta, Arizona. Stacie recently graduated with her MFA in fiction from IAIA in May 2021. Her work has appeared in Yellow Medicine Review and elsewhere.
Kateri Menominee is Anishinaabe from the Bay Mills Tribe of Chippewa Indians. She is a poet and graduate from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She received the Truman Capote Scholarship in 2012 and was one of the first recipients of the N. Scott Momaday Award in 2012.
Erin Marie Lynch is the author of Removal Acts, published from Graywolf Press in 2023. Her writing appears in New England Review, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of support from the NEA, MacDowell, and Hugo House.
m.s. RedCherries is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. A 2023 Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po) Fellow, her debut collection is forthcoming from Penguin Books in 2024.
