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Fall 2007 Southwest Writers Schedule
Stella Pope Duarte
Tuesday, September 25th - Inspired to become a writer through a prophetic dream of her father in 1995, Stella Pope Duarte's writing has been described as lyrical and vivid, reminiscent at once of Laura Esquivel and Alice Hoffman.
She has published a book of short stories, Fragile Night, and a novel, Let Their Spirits Dance.
An excerpt from her forthcoming book, If I Die in Juarez, won the Barbara Deming Award. Duarte has received two Creative Writing Fellowships from Arizona Commission on the Arts, was a finalist for the Pen West Fiction Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Currently, she teaches at ASU and Phoenix College.
Events Schedule
- Informal Dialogue: 2:00pm
Green Room in the Yavapai College Performance Hall - Reading: 7:00 pm
Prescott College Crossroads Center - Prescott.
Sherwin Bitsui
Tuesday, October 16th - Sherwin Bitsui is originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. He is the recipient of the 2000-2001 Individual Poet Grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation, the 1999 Truman Capote Creative Writing fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Literary residency, and more recently, a 2006 Whiting Writers’ Award.
Shapeshift is his first book.
Events Schedule
- Informal Dialogue: 2:00pm
Green Room in the Yavapai College Performance Hall - Reading: 7:00 pm
Prescott College Crossroads Center - Prescott.
Margo Tamez
Tuesday, November 6th - Margo Tamez, Nde' (Jumano Apache and Lipan Apache) is the author of Alleys & Allies, Naked Wanting, and Raven Eye, which was recently nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
She is widely known for her grass-roots work among traditional indigenous communities working against the combined threats of forced assimilation, militarized occupation and genocide.
Her writing explores experiences of bi-national indigenous groups, such as the Nde' (Apache) of West Texas-Chihuahua and South Texas-Tamaulipas, and the T'ohono O'odham of Arizona-Sonora whose aboriginal lands encompass significant spaces of the Mexico-U.S. International Boundary.
Tamez's poetry exposes the craft and intentionality hidden behind the conventional and romantic stereotypes of indigenous women, and the purposeful way those stereotypes blot out the real lives and diverse, resistant identities of contemporary Nde' (Apache). Her poetry and prose also examine the effects of colonization on her own Nde' (Apache) people living under threats of militarized borders and "low-conflict" occupation zones.
Events Schedule
- Informal Dialogue: 2:00pm
Green Room in the Yavapai College Performance Hall - Reading: 7:00 pm
Prescott College Crossroads Center - Prescott.
Doug Thompson
Tuesday, November 27th - For more than thirty years, Doug Thompson has traveled the world as a whale naturalist, guide and activist. In his book, Whales, Touching the Mystery, Thompson shares the unprecedented interaction between humans and Gray Whales in Baja California’s San Ignacio Lagoon.
His work includes thrilling stories of whales he has met, explores the hidden lives of whales, and chronicles the efforts of human champions who helped end whale hunting by promoting whale watching.
Jane Goodall writes that Thompson's "inspiring story illustrates how conservation of wild life, the economic well-being of the local people, and the often life-changing experience of those involved are, together, weaving a message of hope for the future of whales–and for us all."
Thompson has developed hundreds of hours of natural history programming and serves as Expeditions Director for Summer Tree Institute, a non-profit corporation which conducts on-going natural history experiences, lectures on wild life, and marine expeditions throughout the world.
Events Schedule
- Informal Dialogue: 2:00pm
Green Room in the Yavapai College Performance Hall - Reading: 7:00 pm
Prescott College Crossroads Center - Prescott.
To find out more about the Southwest Writers Series, contact Nancy Nelson @ (928) 717-7602 or by email.
