Join the Newberry’s McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies for a day of storytelling, as a series of authors and readers share traditional, historical, and true contemporary tales for all ages. Storytellers will include LeAnne Howe, Kimberly Blaeser, Margaret Noodin, Heid Erdrich, Gordon Henry, June Thiele, and Sequoyah Guess.

LeAnne Howe (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and filmmaker. She is the Eidson Distinguished Professor of American Literature in English at the University of Georgia, Athens. Her most recent book is a daring account of Mary Todd Lincoln and the ghosts that tormented her.

Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe) is a writer, photographer, and scholar. She is a professor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and is a faculty member at the Institute of American Indian Arts low rez MFA program in Santa Fe. She is the author of three poetry collections and served as Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2015-16.

Margaret Noodin (Anishinaabe) holds an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in English and Linguistics from the University of Minnesota. An associate professor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and the Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education, she is also the author, among other works, of a collection of bilingual poems in Ojibwe and English.

Heid E. Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians) is the author of five collections of poetry and editor of two anthologies of literature by Native writers. She teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing program of Augsburg College.

Gordon Henry (White Earth Anishinaabe) is a professor in the English Department at Michigan State University, where he teaches American Indian literature, creative writing, and the creative process. Along with Ellen Cushman, he founded the Native American Youth Film Institute and Indigistory, a digital storytelling organization dedicated to collaboration with tribal communities.

June Thiele (Athabascan and Yupik) is a Native American, two-spirit actor, writer, and performance artist. Indigenous to Alaska, June attended Columbia College in Chicago. She recently participated in a fellowship program with PBS Kids, where she helped develop the first nationally distributed children’s series to feature an Alaskan Native lead character, Molly of Denali.

Sequoyah Guess (United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians) is a Cherokee storyteller, an author, and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians Tradition Keeper.

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