Deborah A. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation of California, and is also of Chumash and Jewish ancestry. She is the author of two poetry collections—Indian Cartography, which won the Diane Decorah Award for First Book from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas, and The Zen of La Llorona, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award and a collection of forthcoming essays, The Hidden Stories of Isabel Meadows and Other California Indian Lacunae, from the University of Nebraska Press. She also co-edited the collection, Sovereign Erotics: An Anthology of Two-Spirit Literature, a Lambda Literary Award finalist and winner of the 2011 Independent Publishers Silver Medal. Her latest book, Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, was published by Heyday Books in January 2013. Miranda is an associate professor of English at Washington and Lee University.

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Eleanor Henderson, Novelist and essayist, has published widely in such journals as North American Review, Salon, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Her stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and included in The Best American Short Stories 2009. Henderson's debut novel Ten Thousand Saints, about the straight edge punk scene in the 1980s, was named one of the top ten novels in 2011 by The New York Times. Eleanor Henderson lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is an assistant professor of writing at Ithaca College.

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Eleanor Henderson, Novelist and essayist,
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Craven Lounge, Morris Conference Center

Shahriar Mandanipour, Iranian novelist is the 2006 recipient of Brown University’s International Writers Project Fellowship, is regarded as one of the most accomplished and successful writers in contemporary Iran. He is the author of five collections of short stories, including The Eighth Day of the Earth, Violet Orient, Midday Moon, Mummy and Honey and Shadows of the Cave. His most recent collection, Ultramarine Blue, gathers eleven stories that relate in various ways to the events of 9/11. Mandanipour is also the author of a two-volume novel, The Courage of Love, and of essays, translations, and children’s books. His various works explore, sometimes in symbolic or metaphorical terms, the effects of dictatorship and oppression on the Iranian people, and he has spoken out in a number of international lectures on censorship in Iran. As a result of his literary and political activities, Mr. Mandanipour has been subjected to harassment, by the Iranian government and was barred from publishing his work for many years.

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Regie Gibson is a former National Poetry Slam Champion Regie Gibson has lectured and performed widely in the U.S., Cuba, and Europe.  He has been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, various NPR programs, and in love jones, a feature film from New Line Cinema based largely on events in his life.  Critically acclaimed on both the stage and the page, Gibson has been published in Poetry Magazine, Harvard's Divinity Magazine and The Iowa Review, among others. His volume of poems, Storms Beneath the Skin, received the Golden Pen Award.  In response to Gibson’s live performance, Kurt Vonnegut proclaimed, “Regie . . . you are supersonic and in the stratosphere . . . you sing and chant for all of us.  Nobody gets left out.”

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Daniel Anderson's work has appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Harper's, The New Republic, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, The Best American Poetry and Southwest Review, among other places. He has published two books of poetry, Drunk in Sunlight (Johns Hopkins University Press) and January Rain (Story Line Press), and edited The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press). His honors include a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bogliasco Foundation. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon.

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Michael Martone is the author of more than a dozen books, and he has been especially acclaimed for his short fiction.  He has won two Fellowships from the NEA, a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and his stories have won numerous prizes.  He has taught at Syracuse University, Iowa State University, and Harvard University.  He is currently a Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama, where he has been teaching since 1996. at 7:30 pm on Thursday October 25 in the Craven Lounge, located in the Morris Conference Center on the SUNY Oneonta campus.

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Molly McGlennen was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is of Anishinaabe and European descent. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English and Native American Studies at Vassar College. She holds a PhD in Native American Studies from University of California, Davis and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Her scholarship and creative writing have been published widely. Most recently, her first collection of poetry, Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits, was published by Salt's award-winning "Earthworks Series of Native American Authors."

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