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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- As an installment of the Red Dragon Reading Series
at the SUNY College at Oneonta, writer and filmmaker LeAnne Howe will
present a reading from her work on Thursday, November 13, at 7:30 p.m. in
the Center for Multicultural Experiences in Lee Hall. Admission to the event
is complimentary, and members of the community are invited to attend.
An enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, LeAnne Howe writes
fiction, poetry, screenplays, creative non-fiction, scholarship, and plays
that deal primarily with American Indian experiences. Her short fiction has
appeared in Fiction International, Callaloo, Story,
Yalobusha Review, Kenyon Review, Cimarron Review, and
elsewhere.
Her books include Miko Kings: An American Indian Baseball Story,
which was published in 2007; Evidence of Red, which won the Oklahoma
Book Award for poetry in 2006 and the Wordcraft Circle Award for 2005-2006;
and Shell Shaker, which received an American Book Award in 2002.
Howe is also a filmmaker, having served as screenwriter and on-camera
narrator for the PBS documentary Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire,
which aired nationally in 2006. She is writer/co-producer of the documentary
Playing Pastime: American Indian Fast-Pitch Softball, and Survival
with three-time Emmy award winner filmmaker James Fortier.
LeAnne Howe has been honored with the 2003 Louis D. Rubins Jr.
Writer-in-Residence fellowship at Hollins University, an Artist-in-Residence
grant for theater from the Iowa Arts Council, and the 2004 Regents
Distinguished Lectureship at the University of California, Riverside. She
was the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of
Mississippi at Oxford in 2006-07. Howe has read her fiction and lectured in
Japan, Jordan, Israel, Romania, and Spain.
More information about LeAnne Howe's appearance at SUNY Oneonta is
available from the College's
Department of English
at (607) 436-3446.
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