EVENT DATE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2010
TIME: 7:30 P.M.
LOCATION: LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL – PSU

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Leslie Marmon Silko is the author of numerous books including Almanac of the Dead, Garden in the Dunes, Ceremony and most recently, The Turquoise Ledge.

Silko is a Native American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer whose work is primarily concerned with the relations between different cultures and between humans and the natural world. Silko was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and grew up at Laguna Pueblo. The Pueblo has been home to members of her family for generations and is where she learned traditional stories and legends from her grandmother Lilly and her Aunt Susie.

Called the most accomplished Native American writer of her generation, an “American Indian Literary Master,” Leslie has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” the National Endowment for the Arts’ Discovery Grant, the Boston Globe prize for non-fiction, the Pushcart Prize for Poetry, and the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities’ “Living Cultural Treasure” Award. Leslie was also the youngest writer to be included in The Norton Anthology of Women’s Literature, for her short story “Lullaby.”

Molly Gloss is a native Oregonian and one of Portland’s literary icons. She is the author of such books as The Jump-Off Creek, The Dazzle of Day, Wild Life and The Hearts of Horses. Her work has been nominated for numerous awards including the PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction. In 1990 she won the Oregon Book Awards in fiction for her novel The Jump-Off Creek.

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