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Index: Linda Hogan, Susan Lang, Demetria Martinez, Gerald McDermott, Alberto Rios, Sharman Apt Russell, James Sallis, Arthur Sze, Ofelia Zepeda

Linda Hogan

Linda HoganLinda Hogan's essays have appeared with the Nature Conservancy and Sierra Club and her fiction and poetry have garnered many honors, including the American Book Award, Colorado Book Award, and nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent books are the poetry collection, Rounding the Human Corners and the novel People of the Whale. Inducted into the Chickasaw National Hall of Fame for her "prominent role in the development of contemporary Native American Poetry and prose," she is also the recipient of the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award. A renowned poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, teacher, and activist, she has spent most of her life in Oklahoma and Colorado where she has taught at the University of Colorado and has served as a volunteer and consultant for wildlife rehabilitation and endangered species programs.

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Susan Lang

Susan Langhas written a trilogy of acclaimed southwestern historical novels, Small Rocks Rising, Juniper Blue, and the recently published Moon Lily. She has taught creative writing at Yavapai College for the past twenty years, and founded and served as director of the Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing annual writing conference from 1995 to 2007. Susan also curates the long-running Southwest Writers Series.

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Demetria Martinez

Demetria Martinezis an author, activist, lecturer, and columnist. Her Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana won the 2006 International Latino Book Award in the category of best biography. Her other books include the widely translated novel, Mother Tongue, winner of a Western States Book Award for Fiction, and two books of poetry, Breathing Between the Lines, and The Devil's Workshop. She writes a column for the National Catholic Reporter, an independent progressive newsweekly and is active with Enlace Communitario, an immigrant's rights group that serves Spanish-speaking victims of domestic violence.

NEW! A Writing Workshop with Demetria Martinez: Nov. 8th 1-4 p.m.
The Hassayampa Institute is offering local writers an opportunity to work with acclaimed writer and poet Demetria Martinez. Martinez will lead a workshop entitled "Geographies of Home: Mapping our Stories in Poetry and Prose" on Saturday, November 8 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. in the Yavapai College main library, room 225 (upstairs). The mixed-genre workshop will feature writing exercises and craft discussion, and is open to writers of all levels. The workshop fee is $45; space is limited to 15 writers so please reserve your space ASAP. To reserve a spot, pleae send a check (non-refundable) made out to Conflux Press, to:
Conflux Press
P.O. Box 12218
Prescott, AZ 86304
Additional workshop details will be provided to registered participants. For further information, please contact Jim Natal, director, The Literary Southwest at james.natal@yc.edu or 928-778-1083.

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Gerald McDermott

Gerald McDermottis a writer, illustrator, and interpreter of mythic tales from many cultures. A friend and protege of the acknowledged master of world myth, Joseph Campbell, McDermott was the first Fellow of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. His recent books include the new Pig Boy; Creation; Musicians of the Sun; Coyote; and Zomo the Rabbit. His first book, Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti, was named a Caldecott Honor Book. His subsequent books include Arrow to the Sun: A Tale from the Pueblo, which won the coveted Caldecott Medal, and Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest, another Caldecott Honor Book. A retrospective of his art is currently touring museums and libraries. Please visit his website: http://geraldmcdermott.com/

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Alberto Rios

Alberto Riosis the recipient of the Arizona Governor's Arts Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, the Walt Whitman Award, the Western States Book Award for Fiction, six Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and fiction, and has work included in more than 150 national and international literary anthologies. His poetry books include, most recently, The Theater of Night and The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body, which was nominated for a National Book Award. His books of fiction include three collections of short stories, among them The Curtain of Trees and The Iguana Killer, along with Capirotada: A Nogales Memoir. He is the Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University. Please visit his website at ASU: http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/

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Sharman Apt Russell

Sharman Apt Russellis the author of Hunger: An Unnatural History, An Obsession With Butterflies, Anatomy of a Rose, When the Land Was Young, Kill the Cowboy,; and Songs of the Fluteplayer, winner of the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award. Her latest book, Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist, is a memoir of her life in southwestern New Mexico. Russell's work has also been featured in American Nature Writers, Writing Nature, and other anthologies. She teaches writing at Western New Mexico University and at Antioch University in Los Angeles, California.

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James Sallis

James Sallisis the author of more than two dozen volumes of fiction, poetry, translation, essays, and criticism, including the six volume Lew Griffin series, Salt River, Cypress Grove, and Cripple Creek. His neo-noir novel Drive won the Deutsche Krimipreis 2008, Germany's oldest and most respected prize for crime novels, in the "international"category and is being made into a movie. His biography of the great crime writer Chester Himes is an acknowledged classic. Sallis, also an accomplished musician and widely-respected book reviewer, lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Arthur Sze

Arthur Szeis the author of eight books of poetry, including Quipu (Copper Canyon Press, 2005), The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998 (1998), and Archipelago (1995). He is also a celebrated translator and released The Silk Dragon: Translations from Chinese in 2001. He is the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writer's Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships, a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship, three grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, and a Western States Book Award for Translation.

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Ofelia Zepeda

Ofelia Zepedawas born and raised in Stanfield, Arizona, which is near the Tohono O'odham and Pima reservations. Zepeda received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. A 1999 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, she is a Regents Professor of linguistics and a former director of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Arizona. She has published three poetry collections, including the new Where Clouds Are Formed. Zepeda is considered the foremost authority in Tohono O'odham language and literature and compiled its first language textbook, A Tohono O'odham Grammar. She also directs the American Indian Language Development Institute, an annual summer institute for American Indian teachers. Click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxFj1eKFgaI to view a Youtube video of Ofelia Zepeda and hear her read some of her work.

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