2013 Festival of Books Guide

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WELCOME...

I have the privilege, as new mayor of the City of Deadwood, to welcome you to our community for the 11th annual South Dakota Festival of Books. Since the inception of this event in

2003, Deadwood has been the host city each odd-numbered year. The City of Deadwood, the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission and the Deadwood City Library are pleased to partner with the South Dakota Humanities Council for the sixth

time to present this book festival.The list of presenters is both long and

impressive. Book lovers will have an opportunity to listen to a diverse group of authors from throughout the country.

There are three major additions to our community that I hope will enhance your visit.

We hope you enjoy the Deadwood Mountain Grand, The Lodge at Deadwood and the major expansion at Cadillac Jacks.

We look forward to having you join us for this exciting event and hope you get a chance to explore Deadwood in its 52nd anniversary of being designated a National Historic Landmark.

Sincerely,

Charles TurbivilleMayor, City of Deadwood

ADVERTISING DIRECTORYAnam Cara Retreat ............................16

Black Hills State University ..................25

Center for Western Studies ................14

Deadwood Chamber of Commerce ....27

Deadwood History .............................16

Deadwood Mountain Grand ..............27

Historic Homestake Opera House .......15

Lead Deadwood Arts Center ................6

Milkweed Editions .............................31

Mount Rushmore Society ...................17

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute ........20

The Outdoor Campus – West ..............15

Prairie Pages .....................................20

PryntComm .........................................4

S.D. Community Foundation ..............19

S.D. Humanities Council .....................21

S.D. Library Association ......................26

S.D. Public Broadcasting ................. 3, 25

S.D. State Historical Society Press ..........2

S.D. State Library .................................5

S.D. State University ...........................19

Sandra Brannan .................................23

South Dakotans for the Arts ...............26

University of Nebraska Press .................6

University of South Dakota .................14

Writelife Publishing ............................30

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For more information visit www.SDBookFestival.com or call us at (605) 688-6113. Times and presenters listed are subject to change. Changes will be announced on SDBookFestival.com, twitter.com/sdbookfestival, facebook.com/sdbookfestival and included in the Festival Survivor’s Guide, a handout available at the Exhibitors’ Hall information desk in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Event Center.

4 Mayor’s Welcome 6 SD Humanities Council Welcome 7 Events Map 8 A Tribute to Poetry Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities

9 A Tribute to Non-Fiction Sponsored by South Dakota Public Broadcasting

10 A Tribute to Children’s and Young Adult Literature Sponsored by Brass Family Foundation

11 A Tribute to Fiction Sponsored by AWC Family Foundation

12 A Tribute to Writers’ Support Sponsored by South Dakota Arts Council

13 A Tribute to History and Tribal Writing Sponsored by City of Deadwood/Historic Preservation Commission

14 Presenters 26 Schedule of Events30 Exhibitors at Exhibitors’ Hall

CONTENTS

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A reader takes advantage of a scenic spot in Spearfish Canyon to enjoy a book and reflect on the SDHC’s 2013 thematic focus on water. This image (also on the front cover) was captured by 2013 festival photographer Bob Wilson.


Laugh out loud. Chuckle appreciatively. Be moved to tears. Any of these emotional reactions may ensue when fans listen to presenta-

tions from their favorite authors at the South Dakota Festival of Books. Such emotions become even more intense as fans meet and interact with these authors.

The treasured moment of connection between author and reader is special. It’s what book lovers look forward to every year, especially as the festival returns to its inaugural city of Deadwood in 2013 after a historic anniversary year for the festival and our organization.

During its 40 years of existence, SDHC has advanced its primary mission of “Exploring the Human Adventure,” which for the last 10 years has included the exciting and ever-evolving Festival of Books. We are especially proud of the power-packed lineup for our 11th annual festival.

Headlining the festival and showcasing our thematic focus on water, 2013 One Book South Dakota author Danielle Sosin will provide a keynote address and par-ticipate in our Literary Feast, discussing her novel The Long-Shining Waters. Her appearance marks the culmination of her 20-city One Book Author Tour, during which she enlightened readers across the state.

We are especially pleased to meet the South Dakota Center for the Book’s mis-sion by spotlighting books written by current or former South Dakota residents or about South Dakota subject matters in more than half of our festival programming. For example, Marcia Mitchell of Hill City will discuss her non-fiction books on government secrets, surveillance and espionage, an area of expertise that has put her in the national spotlight.

Our presenters also include regional favorites. This year, festival fans convinced us we needed to bring popular veteran Western mystery authors Craig Johnson and C.J. Box back to Deadwood. Judging by the reaction on our social media pages, they will have their hands full signing autographs!

Another famous name from past festivals, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, will enthrall crowds with his deft way with words. Festival newcomers include acclaimed children’s author Walter Dean Myers, who was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress, and two bestselling novelists — Peter Heller (The Dog Stars) and B.A. Shapiro (The Art Forger).

As always, the lineup features veterans of the national cultural and literary scene. The group includes NPR contributor Bob Garfield, host of On the Media, who will offer his perspective on the rapidly-changing worlds of media and mar-keting. Well-known book critics Michael Dirda (Pulitzer Prize winner) of the Washington Post, as well as Craig Wilson and Bob Minzesheimer of USA Today, will offer their insights into the publishing industry.

So please, “Keep Calm and Head for the Hills!” Meet us in Deadwood. Bring your friends. Join me in thanking the staff, board and volunteers who bring this event to life! Look us up at www.sdbookfestival.com, facebook.com/sdbookfes-tival and twitter.com/sdbookfestival. Email us at [email protected] or call 605-688-6113 for more information.

While you’re at it, mark your calendar for our next two festivals — in Sioux Falls September 26-28, 2014 and in Deadwood September 25-27, 2015. You won’t want to miss a single moment!

Sherry DeBoer

Executive Director for the

South Dakota Humanities Council

JOIN US!

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FESTIVAL OF BOOKS EVENT LOCATIONS

FESTIVAL GUIDELINESPlease abide by the following guidelines to make this event enjoyable for all: no soliciting or distributing flyers, literature, etc., of any kind at any festival venue without prior consent. No videotaping or tape recording. Turn cell phones and pagers off during presentations. The Festival of Books, its sponsors and venues are not responsible for lost or stolen items.

DEADWOODA. DAYS OF ’76 MUSEUM (48 Crescent Dr.)

B. DEADWOOD MOUNTAIN GRAND (1906 Deadwood Mountain Dr.) At the junction of Pine Street and 14A (Pioneer Way). • Event Center • Prospector Room • Hotel Conference Room

C. DEADWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY (435 Wil-liams St.) Walk up the hill on Shine St. and turn left or walk through the Franklin and exit out the back entrance on 2nd floor through the parking lot. • Downstairs • Main Floor

D. FRANKLIN HOTEL (700 Main St.) • Emerald Room – 2nd floor

E. HOMESTAKE ADAMS RESEARCH & CULTURAL

CENTER (HARCC) (150 Sherman St.)

F. LEAD-DEADWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (716 Main St.) Use north entrance for audi-torium & gym. • Auditorium • Gym

G. MARTIN & MASON HOTEL (33 Deadwood St.) • 1898 Ballroom

H. MASONIC TEMPLE (715 Main St.) At the corner of Main St. & Pine St. • Main Floor • Second Floor • Third Floor

I. ST. AMBROSE CATHOLIC PARISH (760 Main St.)

LEADJ. HISTORIC HOMESTAKE OPERA HOUSE (313

West Main St., Lead) Take Hwy. 14A south to Lead.

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Sherry DeBoer

Executive Director for the

South Dakota Humanities Council

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POETRY

Mutual Admiration Society

Naomi Shihab Nye and Ted Kooser are known for their honest and accessible po-ems. Much of Kooser’s understated verse was written while he worked

as a life insurance executive in Lin-coln, Neb. “Because I was work-ing among people who didn’t read po-etry, my work tried to reach that group,” Kooser says. “A part of what I t ry to do with my poems is to show my readers that what they see as dull and ordinary can be quite magical.”

Kooser has reached a broad audience as a result. He’s since re-tired from the insur-ance business and now writes from an acreage near the tiny village of Gar-land, Neb. His poems suggest the quintessential Midwest-ern life, and he continues writing to create something that will endure. “I’ve al-ways thought it unfair that we have to die,” Kooser says. “I suppose I write poems to try to have something that will survive me.”

Nye’s interest in poetry began at age 3 while lis-tening to her mother read verse. She felt happiness and satisfac-tion she rarely had experienced with conversational language. “By the time I was 6, I wanted to start writing my own poems,” Nye says. “It felt like an automatic response, once one had language skills. I loved that singing sound inside the brain.”

Nye’s mother was an American of German and Swiss descent and her father a Palestinian refugee. She spent her adolescence in Jerusalem and San Antonio, Texas, an upbring-ing reflected in her writing. “We are all influenced by the worlds we grow up in and care about,” she says, “and

elements of that care and knowledge of those details fills our narratives.”

Nye and Kooser have developed a mut ua l ad-miration. Nye so appreci-ated Kooser’s writing she wrote a poem titled “Ted Kooser is my President” while he served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006. “I was as upset about President George W. Bush and his doings as Natalie Maines [of the

Dixie Chicks] and many oth-e r A mer ica n s were,” Nye says.

“I needed anoth-er president in my hear t.” The poem describes a peaceful man who “could proba-bly sneak into your country while you weren’t look ing and say something really good about it.”

Kooser reciprocates this admira-tion. “[Nye] is a woman of great char-acter,” he says. “That’s gotten to be a word we don’t much use, but it fits how I feel about her. Her poetry ex-tends that, of course. She’s a genuine-ly good person in every way.”

POETRY IN MOTION

Words on a page have long been the finished product for poets, but Todd Boss is pushing the limits of his craft. The St. Paul, Minn., bard co-founded Motionpoems, which pairs video and animation with poetry to create a short film. It began in 2008, when animator Angella Kassube transformed one of Boss’ poems. “I was hooked by the process, and by the way in which suddenly I learned to see my poem as a beginning, not an end,” Boss says. “And I realized the potential of reaching broader audiences with my work.”

Working with selected publishers, the two have matched poets with video artists to create 40 films, carefully choosing works from upcoming publica-tions. They hope the end result detracts from the original poem. “For this infraction, we beg the au-dience’s forgiveness, and remind them that enhanc-ing the poem isn’t the goal of a motionpoem,” Boss says. “Our goal is to broaden the audience for poetry by adapting them for film. If in the process we do some damage, at least there are people newly aware that there is, indeed, a china shop on their street.”

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MOCKINGBIRD A “RARE CLASSIC”

NON-FICTION

Hardly a high school stu-dent receives a diploma to-day without reading Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Somehow, Mary McDonagh Murphy never laid hands on the book until her freshman year of college, when she found it on her parents’ bookshelf. “Still in my nightgown, I sat in a high-backed chair and remem-ber looking up, hours later, to see that the room was darkening,” Murphy says. “I turned on the light and read straight to the end of the novel.”

During later readings, Murphy began to see how the novel fit into society. That was the basis for her documentary Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird, and her book, Scout, Atticus and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mocking-bird, in which celebrities discuss how the novel af-fected them.

“I interviewed 26 people, and there were very few duplications,” Murphy says. “I think that says ev-erything about how rich the novel is. It rewards you every time. It’s worth re-reading. It’s that rare classic from adolescence that you can get more and more out of as you go through life.”

The Humane Future of Advertising

To keep a slender figure, no one can deny … Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet,” reads a 1950s-era adver-tisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes. Good luck get-

ting away with a claim like that in the 21st century, when consumers can learn everything about a product with a few computer keystrokes.

We’ve entered the “Relationship Era,” according to advertising critic Bob Garfield. His new book, Can’t Buy Me Like, co-authored with Doug Levy, seeks to explain this new fron-tier in advertising and marketing and show how successful companies can no longer win consumers with catchy slogans and flattering claims. Rather, businesses must establish strong and lasting connections with customers that express genuine care.

That can be easy in our whiz-bang technological world of Facebook and Twitter, where communication is in-stant. But, as the title of Garfield and Levy’s book suggests, social media can hinder as easily as enhance. The authors point out that General Motors abandoned its $10 million annual ad-vertising budget in favor of Facebook ads, while other companies struggle because they saturate consumers’ news feeds with updates that instant-ly sour relationships.

Still, Garfield and Levy see posi-

tivity in the evolution. “Technology hasn’t sent us all plunging into The Matrix or some other nightmarish techno-dystopia,” they write. “On the contrary, in a happy paradox, we’re being transported back to a more hu-mane future. The digital revolution that has been so disruptive to business as usual has not merely multiplied the channels of communication between a consumer and consumer brands; it has launched us all into an era in which human needs, human values and human connections will define success or failure for those brands.”

Authenticity is the name of the game in the Relationship Era, accord-ing to Garfield and Levy. “Commerce can no longer be about manipulating people into purchases,” they write.

“Relationship Era marketers do not see purchasers as conquests to seduce, or even persuade. They see them as friends — members of a community dedicated not only to the same stuff but to the same ideals.”

Gar f ield is co-host of Nat ion-al Public Radio’s On the Media and was an advertising analyst for ABC News. His previous books include his advertising manifesto And Now a Few Words From Me (2003) and The Chaos Scenario (2009), in which he chronicled the digital revolution and its effects.

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CHILDREN’S/Y.A.NOTIONS FROM A NAP

Poverty of Language

Wherever he goes, Walter Dean Myers makes one unequivocal argument:

“Reading is not optional.” It’s a belief he developed through experience.

The high school dropout grew up in a foster home in Harlem. “I’m a poster child for going wrong,” Myers says, “but when I dropped out I could read anything. I was an excellent reader as a kid.” A high school teacher liked his writ-ing and encouraged him to continue. “That was a sustaining piece of advice because it was praise at a t ime that I needed it,” My-ers says. “It was some-thing to hang on to.” He’s s i nce w r i t t en more than 80 novels, as well as non-fiction and picture books for children and young adults.

Myers was chosen as the 2012-2013 Library of Congress National Am-bassador for Young People’s Litera-ture, and he’s touring the country pro-moting literacy. The experience is not what he expected. “I thought it was go-ing to be me riding a big white horse and people lining up behind me say-ing, ‘Yeah, yeah. Read more books,’” Myers says. Instead, he faces the chal-lenge of explaining various forms of illiteracy. “People think it’s kids who don’t want to read books, but they can,” Myers says. In fact, a growing number of youth cannot read at grade level, and they fall further and further behind.

And the reasons are complex. Myers says the demographics of our coun-try’s schools are changing. Minorities now nearly equal the number of white

students. “So many of the kids coming into schools are Latino, and many of the kids have very impoverished back-grounds. You would expect a transi-tion, and that’s what’s happening now,” Myers says. “But the problem now — as opposed to 1910 or 1915 when all the immigrants were coming in and

we were bu i ld ing our educational sys-tem — is that we’re consolidating some schools, cutting back on libraries, and not making the adjust-ments needed.”

He also sees unem-ployment’s effects on literacy, and notes that most language that flows into a fam-

ily comes through t he work place . “You have the lan-guage of your co-workers. People are talking about what happened on t he i r jobs ,” Myers says. Em-ployment a lso allows families wider interests

and hobbies. “If you raise a child in this language-rich environ-ment, when they get to school they’re ready,” Myers explains. “But when people are not employed, you create pockets of language poverty. Some kids are entering schools at 5 years old and they are a year and a half behind the other kids because they don’t hear language at home.”

He hopes people will become cog-nizant of the problem. “We’re not talking about reading as much as we should be talking about reading.”

A short snooze on an air-plane inspired Margaret Peterson Haddix’s young adult series, The Missing. “I woke up totally disori-ented,” says Haddix. She wondered what it would be like if youth had a similar experience. “What if the grown-ups around them didn’t know who the kids were either?”

Found, the first book in the series, begins when a plane filled with 36 babies lands on a Midwest runway with no adults on board. “The rest was me trying to figure out ‘who are these babies and why would this happen?’” Haddix says. The tiny travelers are children of famous historical figures, each kidnapped from their appropriate time period. The series continues as young time travelers Kath-erine and Jonah restore the missing children to their rightful eras. The latest book in the series, Risked, was released in September.

Haddix feels she has “the best job in the world,” often hearing from teach-ers or librarians who have turned reluctant readers into eager ones through her books. “I just think that is so wonderful to hear because the better a child can read, the better chance they will have of succeed-ing in this world.”

Malin Fezehai

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FICTIONLAKE SUPERIOR’S MAGNETISM

Danielle Sosin published her first novel, The Long-Shining Waters, in 2011, and accolades have poured in ever since. The Twin Cities publication City Pages selected it as one of the top 15 books of all time set in Min-nesota, and it won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. But for Sosin, its se-lection as this year’s One Book South Dakota was truly moving.

“To have the work deemed worthy of dis-cussion across the entire state is humbling,” Sosin says. “In addition, the fact that Lake Superior, the center of the nov-el, lies distant from the borders of South Dakota signals to me that the uni-versal themes of the book — human survival, con-nectedness, non-linear time, abounding mystery — are strong. And that is deeply satisfying.”

The novel tells the sto-ries of three women living in three different centu-ries, but its main char-acter is Lake Superior. Sosin presents the lake as a living being that is less an iconic backdrop than a source of hardship and inspiration.

Peter Hel ler at tended Da r t mout h Col lege , t hen went on to t he Iowa Wr iters’ Work-shop, where he received an MFA in fiction and

poetry. He has written extensively on outdoor subjects for a variety of publications and non-fiction books, but in 2012 he re-turned to his liter-ary roots with his f i rst novel, The Dog Stars.

“I always felt I was writing with one hand tied be-h i nd my ba ck ,” says Heller of his journalism career.

“When I wrote The Dog Stars it was like coming home. It was the most thrilling thing I’ve ever done, wr it-ing with all cylinders. And once you start making it all up, there’s no go-ing back!”

The Dog Stars’ protagonist, Hig, inhabits a world that is slowly, per-haps irretrievably, dying. “The f lu killed almost everybody, then the blood disease killed even more,” he reports, and with each passing year there is less wildlife.

The real world is similarly in peril. “We are crushing the earth under the resource demands and the eff luent of our population,” Heller says. “I do think our world will look a lot differ-ent in 50 years. There will be great social disruptions, food and water shortages, much less biodiversity. It’s very tragic. No sugar coating it.

“We are in the middle of the Sixth Great Mass Extinction, this one caused by us,” Heller continues.

“You don’t need to know the statis-tics — half our coral reefs are dead or dying, one-third of all plants and one-quarter of all mammals are on the verge of extinction, etc. — to feel the accelerating losses, the sense of change, of devastation occurring at a faster and faster rate. We are presid-ing at one of the most dramatic mo-

ments in the his-tory of the Earth.”

In the novel , Hig has endured for n ine yea r s thanks in part to a pact he’s made with another sur-v ivor, Bingley. They live inside a perimeter cen-tered on an aban-doned p r iva t e airport, and each d ay H ig t a kes

to the air in a 1956 Cessna to pat rol for scavengers, but he never ventures past the point of no return — until a faint, scratchy vo i c e o n h i s

plane’s radio rekindles the hope that a better life may still be possible.

Outside the world of the book, Heller also has hope for a better life.

“I think we are in very tough times, and I also think it’s a great opportu-nity to exercise our greatest human-ity. Not to retreat into selfish fear and defensiveness, but to take responsi-bility and find our joy in great com-passion,” says Heller. “If we can open our hearts, now is the time to do it.”

A World in Peril

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WRITING WITH EASE

Writers’ Support

“There’s a certain natural-ness you need for a good story — nothing forced, nothing pretentious,” says former USA Today writer Craig Wilson. “A good story a lot of times almost writes itself.”

And Wilson should know. His weekly column “The Final Word” ran from 1996 to 2013, extol-ling the simple humor in everyday life. He’s writ-ten feature stories and book reviews as well, and sees importance in using “good, tight sentences” and not a lot of big words.

“You have to get in and get out quickly to keep your readers interested,” Wilson says. “Having worked in the book sec-tion of USA Today, you look at a book and think, ‘That’s really good but nobody’s going to wade through that anymore.’ That’s kind of part of the trend.”

Wilson took a buyout last spring after 30 years at the national daily paper. He plans to write a book about his career, though he’s enjoyed a leisurely re-tirement thus far. “I quite understand the ladies who lunch now, because it gives a focus to your day,” Wilson jokes. “You actual-ly have to get up and wash your hair, get dressed and go out into the world.”

Laughter makes serious top-ics accessible. In Susan Dworkin’s plays, her char-acters’ personal lives inter-sect with politics, creating humorous as well as dra-

matic results. A low-level govern-ment clerk in her latest play, The Farm Bill, undergoes a political awaken-ing that results in a one-woman uprising, briefly bringing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s bureau-cracy to a standstill.

It’s a setting Dwor-kin has experienced f irsthand. The New York suburbanite and political junkie knew nothing about farm-ing when she started working at the De-partment of Agri-culture after col-lege. The ag world was revolutioniz-ing as industr ial outfits supplanted small farms and USDA researchers unlocked Mother Nature’s secrets. “I found myself fascinated by how the farmers were coping and thunder-struck by what the techies at Beltsville were working on. Tomatoes raised to fit into specific boxes and shipping schedules. Bugs poisoned with their own pheromones,” says Dworkin. “It was all amazing to me.”

After leaving the USDA, Dworkin covered aid programs in the Middle East, interviewed celebrities as a con-tributing editor at Ms. magazine and wrote a number of non-fiction books.

But she remained fascinated with ag-riculture, viewing it as a barometer of economic and spiritual health. “Long after I lef t the depar tment, I kept traipsing around the world, reporting on hydroelectric dams and irrigation projects, experimental plantations and the dislocation of farm families every-

where,” Dworkin says. Her 2009 non-fiction book The Vi-king in the Wheat Field told the story of Danish scientist Bent Skovmand’s q u e s t t o e n s u r e the futu re of the world’s food supply by preserving plant genetic resources in seed banks.

Dworkin’s inter-est in politics sur-passes her interest

in agriculture. “Many of my plays concern the political awakening of characters who thought they only had private lives.” She’s found spe-cial rewards in politically-charged playwriting. “I believe the theatre is a logical place for politics,” Dworkin says. “Few things are more fun than satirizing the powers that be, no mat-ter how furious they may become. As for the fallout — the impact the play may have on our general civic conver-sation — that’s what the political writ-er lives for.”

It’s rewarding for the audience as well. The shared experience of theater helps viewers make sense of political ideas. “Sometimes sitting alone with your TV or your podcast just won’t cut it,” Dworkin says. “Sometimes people just need to sit together, laugh together, to be a community in the dark, in order to really consider an issue.”

Fun, Fury and Fallout

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Brian Fagan was finishing the manuscript for his new book, The Attacking Ocean, when Superstorm Sandy slugged the East Coast. It was as if Mother Nature

was proving his argument that the combination of rising sea levels and growing coastal metropolises will someday result in global disaster.

Fagan, a professor emeritus of an-thropology at the University of Cali-fornia in Santa Barbara, has written extensively on archaeology and clima-tology. He has been especially prolific in penning books which explore the South Dakota Humanities Council’s 2013 thematic focus on water, includ-ing The Great Warming, Beyond the Blue Horizon and Elixir.

The Attacking Ocean examines the interactions between humans and the seas over 9,000 years. For much of that time, oceanic fluctuations had little ef-fect on humanity. But the earth’s pop-ulation grew fivefold from the time of Christ to the Industrial Revolution, and the planet has steadily warmed since 1860. “I ended up with some scary scenarios, not so much from ris-ing seas as from the vicious sea surges that come ashore in the wake of hur-ricanes, cyclones and other extreme

weather events,” Fagan says. “Future scenarios for places like Bangladesh are frightening, and a world that might involve millions of environmental ref-ugees is something all of us, even as far away as South Dakota, will have to take seriously.”

About 200 million people live in places less than 15 feet above sea level. There are protective measures, but Fa-gan wonders if they are enough — or even feasible. “One solution is to wall off the ocean, which is what the Neth-erlands have done for centuries, so far with success,” he says. “Few other countries can afford this. To wall off New York would be incredibly expen-sive, if it could be done. It would take a huge catastrophe for this to happen.”

Other remedies include restoring coastal wetlands, restricting coast-al development and slowing global warming. “We need global policies for dealing with the environmental refugee problem,” Fagan says. “The numbers of environmental refugees in Bangladesh could easily top 10 million. How do you resettle tropi-cal subsistence farmers in places like South Dakota? This may seem like a far-fetched question, but it is not. It’s going to be a serious issue for our great-grandchildren.”

Man vs. Sea

SACRED TRADITIONS

HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING

Few have compassion for a woman accused of murder-ing her children, as in the classic Greek myth of Me-dea, but Linda Hogan’s re-cent poem and performance piece, Indios, sympathetical-ly updates the ancient trag-edy. The Chickasaw poet, novelist and essayist explores the impact of the Americas’ colonization through the life story of one unjustly accused Native American woman.

Revealing history, cul-ture and ecology from the traditional Native American perspective is a hallmark of Hogan’s work. “Tradition comes largely from the world around us,” Hogan says. “It is not only what’s passed on, but it is even in the languag-es, the relationship with the land.”

That love of the land of-ten steers Hogan toward ecological issues. Her novel Power explored the endan-gered Florida Everglades. Solar Storms and an essay in the book Dwellings focus on our relationship with water. “Water is the most impor-tant issue many of us are fac-ing right now. Here we have water with fecal matter in it. And our aquifers, the amaz-ing underground oceans, are shrinking. The water must go somewhere and it be-comes great storms,” Hogan says. “It is sacred to all peo-ple. And now corporations are wishing to own it.”


PRESENTERSLORI G. ARMSTRONG Lori G. Armstrong left the firearms in-dustry in 2000 to pursue her dream of

writing crime fiction. The first book in her Ju-lie Collins series, Blood Ties, was nominated for a 2005 Shamus Award for Best F irst Novel. Hallowed Ground re-

ceived a 2006 Shamus Award nomina-tion and a Daphne du Maurier nomina-tion, and won the 2007 WILLA Literary Award. Shallow Grave was nominated for a 2008 High Plains Book Award and was a finalist for the 2008 WILLA Liter-ary Award. The first book in her Mercy Gunderson series, No Mercy, won the 2011 Shamus Award for Best Hardcover Novel and was a finalist for the WILLA Literary Award. Her latest novel, Merci-less, appeared in January 2013. Arm-strong lives in western South Dakota.

TODD BOSSTodd Boss’s award-winning poetry col-lections are Pitch (2012) and Yellow-rocket (2008), both finalists for the Minnesota Book Award. His 35-part

“Fragments for the 35W Bridge” was part of a collaboration with Swed-ish artist Maja Spasova called “Project 35W,” an art installation on the Mis-sissippi River. Panic, Boss’s retelling of Knut Hamsun’s 1894 novella Pan, will premiere as a one-man opera in 2013, arranged by Boston Conservatory’s Andy Vores. Boss is a founding co-direc-tor of Motionpoems, a producer of po-etry films now collaborating with Cop-per Canyon, Milkweed, Graywolf and other publishers. Boss lives in suburban Saint Paul with his wife and children.

JOSEPH BOTTUM Joseph Bottum is an essayist and poet living in the Black Hills. His work has ap-peared in the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, while his books include his South Dakota memoir, The Christmas Plains, and his poetry collection, The Second Spring. The former literary editor of the Weekly

Standard and former editor-in-chief of the journal First Things, Bottum holds a Ph.D. in medieval philosophy and lec-tures on literary, philosophical and reli-gious topics. He has done commentary for television networks from EWTN and C-SPAN to the BBC, including NBC’s Meet the Press and the PBS NewsHour.

C.J. BOXC.J. Box is the author of 17 novels, including the Joe Pickett series. In 2013, he released Breaking Point (a Joe Pickett novel) and The Highway (a stand-alone featuring Cody Hoyt). Among Box’s honors are the Ed-gar Allen Poe Award for Best Novel, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award and the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers’ Association Award for fic-tion. Three of his novels — Open Sea-son, Blue Heaven and Nowhere to Run — have been optioned for film. Before becoming a writer, Box worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, reporter, editor and co-owner of an in-ternational tourism marketing firm. Box and his wife, Laurie, live in Wyoming and have three daughters. SANDRA BRANNANSandra Brannan has created a mystery series around Liv Bergen, a woman who embodies the spirit of South Dako-ta. The first three install-ments are In the Belly of Jonah (2010), Lot’s Return To Sodom (2011) and Widow’s Might (2012). Her books have landed on the Denver Post bestseller list and reached the top 10 for e-book mysteries and top five for women’s mysteries. In September she will launch the fourth in her series, Noah’s Rainy Day. Brannan lives in Rapid City.

NATALEE CAPLENatalee Caple is the author of four books and the co-editor of an anthol-ogy of contemporary fiction, The Note-

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MARY CASANOVA Mary Casanova is the author of 30 books for young readers, including pic-ture books The Day Dirk Yeller Came to Town and Utterly Otterly Night, her most recent YA novel Frozen and books for American Girl. Once a re-luctant reader, Casanova is passionate about writing “stories that matter and books that kids can’t put down.” Her books frequently land on state reading lists and have earned awards such as the ALA Notable Book, Parent’s Choice Gold Award and two Minnesota Book Awards. She lives in northern Minneso-ta with her husband, Charlie.

ANN CHARLES Ann Charles writes humorous myster-ies splashed with suspense, paranor-mal and romance. Her book Nearly Departed in Deadwood won the 2010 Daphne du Mau-rier Excellence in Mys-tery/Suspense Award and the 2011 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award for Best Novel with Strong Ro-mantic Elements. She has four Dead-wood Mystery Series books available; the fifth is due soon. A member of Sis-ters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, Charles has a B.A. in English with an emphasis on creative writing from the University of Washington. ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Elizabeth Cook-Lynn studied at South Dakota State University, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in English and

journalism in 1952. She studied at New Mexico State University and Black Hills State College and obtained her master’s degree from the University of South Dakota in education, psychology and counseling in 1971. She was in a doc-toral program at the University of Ne-braska in 1977-78 and was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at Stanford University in 1976. Cook-Lynn taught high school in New Mexico and South Dakota and was a visiting professor at the University of Califor-nia at Davis. She spent most of her ac-ademic career at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, where she was professor of English and Native Ameri-can Studies.

MICHAEL DAHLIEMichael Dahlie’s first novel, A Gentle-man’s Guide to Graceful Living, won the PEN/Hemingway award in 2009, and he received a Whit-ing Award in 2010. His fiction has appeared in journals and maga-zines, while his nov-els for young readers have appeared on sev-eral year-end lists, including The Wash-ington Post’s Top Ten Books For Young Readers 2003. His second novel, The Best of Youth, is out this year. Dahlie is the Booth Tarkington Writer-in-Resi-dence at Butler University in Indianapo-lis, where he lives with his wife, novelist Allison Lynn, and their son, Evan.

PETE DEXTERPete Dexter began his working life with a U.S. Post office in New Orleans. He wasn’t very good at mail and quit, then caught on as a newspaper reporter in Florida, which he was not very good at, got married, and was not very good at that. In Philadelphia he became a news-paper columnist, which he was pretty good at, and got divorced, which you would have to say he was good at be-cause it only cost him $300. Dexter re-married, won the National Book Award and built a house in the desert so re-mote that there is no postal service. He’s out there six months a year, peck-ing away at the typewriter, living proof of the adage “what goes around comes


around”—that is, you quit the post of-fice, pal, and the post office quits you.

MICHAEL DIRDA Michael Dirda, a week-ly book columnist for The Washington Post, is the author of the memoir An Open Book and of four collections of essays: Readings, Bound to Please, Book by Book, and Classics for Pleasure. His latest book, On Conan Doyle, won the 2012 Edgar Award for the best bio-graphical/critical work of the year from the Mystery Writers of America. Dirda is a frequent contributor to several lit-erary journals and periodicals, as well as an occasional lecturer and college teacher. He received the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism.

SUSAN DWORKINSusan Dworkin’s newly published play The Farm Bill chronicles the political re-bellion of a low-level clerk at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Her most recent book is The Viking in the Wheat Field. Other titles include The Nazi Of-ficer’s Wife, an international bestseller; Making Tootsie, a classic film study with Dustin Hoffman; and the novelization of the Madonna movie Desperately Seeking Susan. Dworkin has written numerous plays, including The Baking Song, The Miami Dig, The Old Mezzo and All Day Suckers. For 10 years, she was a contributing editor at Ms. maga-zine. She lives in Massachusetts.

HEID ERDRICHA member of the Tur-tle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, Heid Erdrich grew up in North Da-kota. She earned de-grees from Dartmouth College and The Johns Hopkins Univer-sity Writing Seminars. Erdrich has four times been nominated for the Minneso-ta Book Award, which she won in 2009 for National Monuments. She has writ-ten four poetry collections and will re-lease her first cookbook, Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes from the Upper Midwest, this year. Er-

drich is an independent scholar and vis-iting writer.

DAVID ALLAN EVANSSouth Dakota’s Poet Laureate since 2002, David Allan Evans was born and raised in Sioux City, Iowa. He has a B.A. from Morningside College, an M.A. from the University of Iowa and an M.F.A. from the University of Arkan-sas. He has received writing grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bush Artist Foundation, and has twice been a Fulbright Scholar to China. He is the author of eight collec-tions of poems, most recently The Car-nival, The Life (2013), and several books of prose. His poems, short stories and essays have been published in numer-ous magazines, journals and antholo-gies, including Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, Southern Review, Esquire and Reader’s Digest.

BRIAN FAGANBrian Fagan is an archaeologist, histo-rian and author. Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he spent his ear-ly career in Africa, where he worked in what is now the National Museum of Zambia. He came to the United States in 1966 and to the University of Cali-fornia, Santa Barbara in 1967, where he taught anthropology until 2003. His publications include seven college texts, two books for the National Geographic Society and four books on ancient cli-mate. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he has been interviewed for numer-ous public and Discovery/TLC television programs and has served as a technical consultant for the Time-Life series on Lost Civilizations.

ROB FLEDER Rob Fleder was executive editor of Sports Illustrated and the editor of Sports Illustrated Books during his 20 years at Time Inc. Among the New York Times bestsellers he edited for SI Books were The Football Book, The Baseball Book, SI 50: The Anniversary Book and Hate Mail From Cheerlead-ers (by Rick Reilly). He most recently edited Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World’s

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Most Loved (and Hat-ed) Team, a collection of original essays about the New York Yankees, and Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence and

Forbidden Desires, A Surprising Num-ber of Which Are Not About Marriage (by Pete Dexter).

RHIANNON FRATER Rhiannon Frater is the author of the As the World Dies trilogy (The First Days, Fighting to Survive, Siege) which fol-

lows two women flee-ing into the Texas Hill Country to survive the zombie apoca lypse . She won the Dead Let-ter Award for The First Days and Fighting to

Survive. Frater’s other books include vampire novels Pretty When She Dies and The Tale of the Vampire Bride and young-adult zombie novel The Living Dead Boy and the Zombie Hunters. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband.

BOB GARFIELDBob Garfield is a columnist, critic, essay-ist, pundit, lecturer and broadcast per-sonality. Garfield co-hosts NPR’s weekly Peabody Award-winning program “On the Media.” He also writes columns for MediaPost and The Guardian. For a dozen years, Garfield was a commenta-tor/correspondent for NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Dubbed “the Charles Kuralt of Bizarro World,” he specialized in quirky Americana. Garfield was also a columnist for Advertising Age and advertising analyst for ABC News. He’s been a regular on Financial News Net-work, CNBC’s “Power Lunch” and PBS’s

“Adam Smith’s Money Game.”

MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up in Ohio and graduated from Miami Uni-versity of Ohio. She worked as a report-er in Indianapolis and community col-lege instructor in Illinois before her first book was published in 1995. She has written over 30 books for children and teens, most recently Risked (the sixth book in the Missing series) and a stand-

alone, Game Chang-er. Her books have re-ceived New York Times bestseller status and more than a dozen state reader’s choice awards. Haddix and her husband, Doug, live in Columbus, Ohio. KAREN HALL Karen Hall, environmental engineer and writer, lives with her husband Jeff Nelsen near Rapid City. Her first Han-nah Morrison mystery, Unreasonable Risk, a thriller about sabotage in an oil refinery, was published in 2006, and the second, Through Dark Spaces, set in South Dakota’s gold mining indus-try, followed in 2012. Hall is finishing a novel about infertility and working on the third Hannah Morrison mystery. She is also past president of the Black Hills Writers Group.

BILL HEAVEY Bill Heavey is an editor-at-large for Field & Stream and writes the back page col-umn, “A Sportsman’s Life.” His books


include If You Didn’t Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat? and It’s Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It: Misadventures of a Suburban Hunter-Gatherer, which chron-icles his attempts at closing the distance between himself and his food. His work has appeared in Men’s Journal, Outside, The Washington Post and the Los An-geles Times.

PAUL L. HEDREN Paul L. Hedren of Omaha is a retired National Park Service superintendent. A lifelong student of the 19th century Army and the Indian wars of the North-ern Plains, Hedren has written and pub-lished extensively. He is the author of 10 books. First Scalp for Custer in 1980

was his first, and Ho! For the Black Hills: Captain Jack Crawford Reports the Black Hi l l s Gold Rush and Great Sioux War is his latest. His re-cent book After Custer:

Loss and Transformation in Sioux Coun-try received the 2012 Wrangler Non-fiction Book Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

PETER HELLER Peter Heller holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in both fiction and poetry. An award-winning adven-ture writer and longtime contributor to NPR, Heller is a contributing editor at Outside magazine, Men’s Journal and National Geographic Adventure, and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Busi-nessweek. In addition to his novel, The Dog Stars, he is the author of several nonfiction books, including Kook, The Whale Warriors, and Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River. He lives in Denver, Colo.

LINDA HOGAN Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw writer, ac-tivist and public speaker. Her most re-cent books are the poetry collections Indios and Rounding the Human Corners and the novel People of the Whale. A new collection of poems, The

Remedies, is due out in 2013. She has been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the International Impact Award. Her non-fiction includes essay collections and a memoir. She is a Pro-fessor Emerita from the University of Colorado now serving as writer-in-resi-dence for the Chickasaw Nation.

V.R. JANISJanis graduated from high school in Kyle, then earned a degree in environ-mental science from Oglala Lakota Col-lege. She has pursued writing and pho-tography for the last three years. She has published the Hidden Magic Trilogy of young adult fantasy novels, as well as Native Me, a book of poetry and pho-tography. She hopes to release Stolen Light, Book 1 of The Light Chronicles, and Unique Adaptations, a dystopian young adult fantasy, in 2013.

CRAIG JOHNSONCraig Johnson is the author of eight novels in the Walt Longmire mystery se-ries, which has garnered popular and critical acclaim. Another Man’s Mocca-sins was the Western Writers of Ameri-ca’s Spur Award winner and the Moun-tains & Plains Independent Booksellers’ Book of the Year, and The Dark Horse was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Junkyard Dogs won the Wat-son Award for a mystery novel with the best sidekick, and Hell Is Empty was a New York Times bestseller. The Walt Longmire series is the basis for the hit A&E drama, Longmire, starring Robert Taylor, Lou Diamond Phillips and Katee Sackoff. Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyo.

MARILYN JOHNSONMarilyn Johnson is the author of two books: This Book is Overdue!, about librarians and archivists in the digital age, and The Dead Beat, about the art of obituaries and obituary writers. She

is a former editor and staff writer for Life and other magazines, and lives with her family, in-cluding her writer/edi-tor husband Rob Fleder, in New York.

TED KOOSER Two-time U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser is the author of 11 poetry collections, including Weather Central and De-lights and Shadows, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Kooser’s writing is known for clarity, precision and ac-cessibility, and his poems are included in textbooks and anthologies used in secondary schools and colleges. Koos-er has also written plays, fiction, per-sonal essays, literary criticism and chil-dren’s books. Among Kooser’s many honors are two NEA fellowships in po-etry, the Pushcart Prize, the Nebraska Book Award and a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. He lives near Garland, Neb., with his wife, Kathleen Rutledge.

JON K. LAUCKJon K. Lauck was born on a farm near Madi-son. He studied histo-ry and political science at SDSU in Brookings, then received his Ph.D. in economic history from the Univer-sity of Iowa and his law degree from the University of Minnesota. Lauck practiced law and taught history at SDSU and now serves as Senior Advi-sor and Counsel to U.S. Senator John Thune. Lauck is the author of American Agriculture and the Problem of Monop-oly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980, Daschle v. Thune: Anatomy of a High Plains Senate Race, and Prairie Republic: The Political Cul-ture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889, as well as the co-author and co-editor of The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South Dakota Political Culture. Lauck’s new book, The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History, will ap-pear this fall.

DARCY LIPP-ACORDDarcy Lipp-Acord grew up near Timber Lake and now resides on a ranch near the Montana-Wyoming border with her husband, Shawn, and their six chil-dren. Her memoir, Circling Back Home: A Plainswoman’s Journey, comes out in September 2013. Lipp-Acord graduated from Carroll College in Helena, Mont.,

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and taught high school in Montana and Wyoming. She works as a youth servic-es librarian in Gillette. Her essays have appeared in several anthologies, includ-ing Woven on the Wind, Crazy Woman Creek and My Heart’s First Steps.

ALLISON LYNNAllison Lynn’s first novel, Now You See It, won the William Faulkner Medal

from the Pirate’s Al-ley Faulkner Society and the Chapter One Award from the Bronx Center for the Arts. Her latest novel is The Ex-iles. Lynn has written

articles, reviews, and essays for The New York Times Book Review, The Chi-cago Sun-Times and People. She teach-es in the Creative Writing program at Butler University in Indianapolis, where she lives with her husband, writer Mi-chael Dahlie, and their son, Evan.

MERLYN MAGNER Merlyn Magner was born in Flint, Mich., in 1952. At the age of 7, she and her family moved to Rapid City, where her father worked in broadcasting. Magner graduated from Stevens High School in 1970. She received her degree in Hu-manities and Art History from West Los Angeles College before working in the corporate travel industry. She returned to the Black Hills in 2007 to work on her first book, Come Into the Water, her memoir of the Rapid City Flood of 1972. She lives in the Ozark Mountains.

FREYA MANFREDFreya Manfred’s sixth collection of po-etry, Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle, won the 2009 Midwest Bookseller’s Choice Award for Poetry. Her recent collection is The Blue Dress. Her poetry has appeared in over 100 reviews and magazines and over 30 anthologies. Her memoir, Fred-erick Manfred: A Daughter Remem-bers, was nominated for a Minnesota Book Award and an Iowa Historical Society Award. Manfred is married to screenwriter Thomas Pope. Their sons Ethan Rowan Pope and Nicholas Bly Pope have illustrated some of her work.

BILL MARKLEYHistory and travel have fascinated Bill Markley since he was a boy in Pennsyl-vania. Upon moving to Pierre in 1976, he immersed himself in local history and participated in Civil War and Western frontier reenacting. Markley worked on the films Dances With Wolves, Son of the Morning Star, Far and Away, Get-tysburg and Crazy Horse. He has con-tributed to numerous magazines and written three nonfiction books. His lat-est book, Deadwood Dead Men, is a fic-tional account of a string of murders starting with Wild Bill Hickok. Markley and his wife, Liz, live in Pierre, where they raised two children.

CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Christopher Merrill has published five collections of poetry and five works of nonfiction, including Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars and Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain. His latest book, The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expe-

dition, War, chronicles his travels in Malaysia, China, Mongolia and the Middle East in the wake of the war on terror. His honors in-clude a knighthood in

arts and letters from the French gov-ernment. A member of the National Council on the Humanities and the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, he directs the International Writing Pro-gram at the University of Iowa.

KENT MEYERSKent Meyers is the author of The Wit-ness of Combines, a memoir, and sev-eral books of fiction, including Light in the Crossing, The River Warren and The Work of Wolves. Two of his books have appeared on The New York Times list of Notable Books. His most recent novel, Twisted Tree, won the High Plains Book Award and the Society of Midland Authors Award for fiction. He has published fiction and essays in doz-ens of literary journals, and was recent-ly a writer-in-residence in Clermont-Fer-rand, a city in France. Meyers teaches at Black Hills State University and in Pacific

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Lutheran University’s MFA program.

BOB MINZESHEIMERSince 1997, Bob Minzesheimer has been USA Today’s New York-based book reviewer and reporter. Before he wrote about books, he covered politics in Washington, D.C., and education in Rochester, N.Y. He’s a native of Brook-

lyn and a graduate of Colgate University and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, and was a Knight fel-low at Stanford Uni-versity. He’s a former

president of the board of trustees of the Ossining (N.Y.) Public Library and a former executive board member of the National Book Critics Circle. He lives in Scarborough, N.Y., with his wife, Mary Murphy, a filmmaker and author, and their two children. MARCIA MITCHELL Marcia Mitchell is a former associate director of the American Film Institute

and former senior executive of the Cor-poration for Public Broadcasting. She is a prize-winning journalist and author of five non-fiction books. Recently, her writing has focused on espionage and intelligence. Her book, The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq In-vasion, was named a UK best book of the year in 2008. The subject matter, a secret service officer who leaked an in-ternational spy operation that outraged much of the world, has again embroiled her in controversy about the difference between heroic and traitorous deeds.

STEVEN T. MITCHELL Steven T. Mitchell is a native of Lead and a life-long resident of the Black Hills. He earned bachelor’s and master’s de-grees in mining engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He spent much of his career with the Homestake Mining Company as a mine planning engineer, mine su-perintendent and Open Cut superinten-dent. After the mine closed in 2001, he

assisted in transferring much of the property to the state of South Dakota for conversion to a science laboratory, and helped develop a decommissioning, clo-sure and reclamation plan. He also con-sults for the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority. He and his wife, Cindy, live near Sturgis.

MARY MCDONAGH MURPHYMary McDonagh Murphy is a director, writer, author and television producer. Her most recent documentary is Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mocking-bird, released theatrically and broadcast nationally on PBS’s American Masters. The companion book is Scout, Atticus and Boo. Murphy has also produced stories for CBS News and NBC News, and has written for Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, New York Post and Publishers Weekly. A Rhode Island native, she is a graduate of Wesleyan University and was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford


University. She lives in Scarborough, N.Y., with her husband, Bob Minzes-heimer, and their two children.

WALTER DEAN MYERS Walter Dean Myers is the author of more than 80 books for children and young adults, including Sunrise Over Fallujah, Fallen Angels, Monster, Slam! and Harlem. Myers has received two Newbery Honors and five Coretta Scott King Awards, and was the inaugural re-cipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virgin-ia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achieve-ment. He was the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award and the 1994 recipient of the American Library Asso-ciation’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for a “significant and lasting contribu-tion to young adult literature.” Myers was named 2012-2013 National Am-bassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress and the Chil-dren’s Book Council.

CHARLES NAUMANCharles Nauman has released two vol-umes of poetry: Double Woman and how it goes jumping. His poetry has appeared in A Cadence of Hooves, his creative non-fiction has been published in the Iowa Review, and his novel, Pola, was published in 2011. As a screen-

wr i ter and d i rector, Nauman’s films have ranged from the fea-ture Johnny Vik to the experimental Sitting Bull’s Bones with Stan Brakhage. His Tahtonka

was an American Film Festival Blue Rib-bon winner and the Critic’s Choice for a BBC-TV reprise. Nauman and his wife, Grete Bodøgaard, a tapestry artist, split time between Norway and their live-in studio, a renovated bank in Volin.

ANDREW NIKIFORUK For more than two decades Andrew Ni-kiforuk has written about energy, eco-nomics and the West, winning seven National Magazine Awards and earn-ing top honors for investigative writing from the Association of Canadian Jour-nalists. The Tar Sands, which criticized the pace and scale of the world’s larg-

est energy project, won the 2009 Ra-chel Carson Environment Book Award.

Empire of the Beetle, which explains how a bug reshaped Western geography, was a Gov-ernor General’s nomi-nee for non-fiction in 2011. His latest book,

The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude, calls for a moral revolution in our attitudes towards energy consump-tion. Nikiforuk, his wife and three sons live in Calgary, Alberta.

NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Naomi Shihab Nye has spent 37 years leading workshops and inspiring stu-dents. Drawing on her Palestinian-American heritage, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas and her experi-ences traveling, Nye uses her writing to attest to our shared humanity. Nye’s books of poetry include A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, Red Suitcase, Fuel and You & Yours. She is also the author of several collections of essays, two nov-els for young readers and two picture books. Her most recent books are There Is No Long Distance Now (short stories) and Transfer (poems). She was named laureate of the 2013 NSK Prize for Chil-dren’s Literature.

THOMAS POPE Over 30 years as a professional screen-writer, Thomas Pope has worked for Francis Coppola, Ridley Scott, Robert Redford, Penny Marshall and Frank Oz. He has written on Lords of Discipline, Bad Boys, The Curious Case of Ben-jamin Button and Sweet Land. Pope teaches screenwriting and film history at the Minneapolis College of Art and

Design. His first book was Good Scripts, Bad Scripts: Learning the Craft of Screenwriting Through 25 of the Best and Worst Films in His-tory. His Lethal Genius:

The Hitman in American Film is forth-coming. He’s married to poet Freya Manfred. Their sons, Ethan Rowan Pope and Nicholas Bly Pope, are visual artists.

JANE TORNESS RASMUSSENJane Torness Rasmussen started work-ing with a family collection of immi-grant letters 20 years ago. The endeav-or led to a readers’ theater production that she and her husband John have performed more than 60 times. They worked on the Emmy-award winning documentary The Stavig Letters in 2011 and contributed to the book “Dear Un-forgettable Brother”: The Stavig Letters from Norway and America, 1881-1937 released in September 2013. They live in Sisseton near the homestead of im-migrant Lars Stavig. Jane taught writing at Sisseton Wahpeton College and John is a banker. B.A. SHAPIROB.A. Shapiro is the author of The Art Forger, a literary thriller about the Is-abella Stewart Gard-ner Museum heist that spans three centuries of forgers, art thieves and obsessive collec-tors. Writing as Barbara Shapiro, she is also the author of five suspense novels — The Safe Room, Blind Spot, See No Evil, Blameless and Shattered Echoes — as well as the non-fiction book The Big Squeeze. Shapiro has also written four screenplays: Blind Spot, The Lost Co-ven, Borderline and Shattered Echoes. She lives in Boston with her husband Dan and teaches creative writing at Northeastern University.

DANIELLE SOSIN 2013 One Book South Dakota author Danielle Sosin began writing fiction at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. In 2000, she published her first book, Garden Primitives, a collection of short stories. She spent the next decade ex-amining the power of Lake Superior while writing The Long-Shining Waters, published in 2011.The book won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award. Sosin has received awards and fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council and the Loft Literary Cen-ter. Her fiction has been featured in the

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Alaska Quarterly Review and recorded for National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story” and Iowa Public Radio’s “Live from Prai-rie Lights.” She lives in Duluth, Minn.

CHRISTINE STEWART-NUÑEZ Christine Stewart-Nuñez is the author of several poetry collections, includ-ing Snow, Salt, Honey (2012), Keep-ing Them Alive (2011) and Postcard on Parchment (2008). Her essay “An Archeology of Secrets” won the 15th Annual Creative Nonfiction Prize at the Briar Cliff Review and was included by David Brooks as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2012. Her work has appeared in such magazines as Arts & Letters, Calyx, North American Review, Prairie Schooner and Shenandoah. A Des Moines, Iowa native, she teaches creative writing, literature and compo-sition at South Dakota State University.

DAVID TREUERDavid Treuer is an Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in Minneso-ta. He attended Princeton University, where he worked with Toni Morrison, Paul Muldoon and Joanna Scott. He published his first novel, Little, at age 24, and has since written three others

and a book of criticism. Treuer received the Push-cart Prize, the Minnesota Book Award, and fellow-ships from the NEH and the Bush Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in anthro-

pology and teaches literature and cre-ative writing at the University of South-ern California. He splits time between Los Angeles and Leech Lake.

RICHARD VAN CAMPRichard Van Camp is a member of the Dogrib (Tlicho) Nation from Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. He authored two children’s books with Cree artist George Littlechild: A Man Called Raven and What’s the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? His collections of short fiction include Angel Wing Splash Pattern and Godless but Loyal to Heaven. He is the author of three baby books (Welcome Song for Baby:

A Lu l laby for New-borns, Nighty Night: A Bedtime Song for Babies, and Little You) and two comic books (Kiss Me Deadly and Path of the Warrior).

C.M. WENDELBOE C.M. Wendelboe entered law enforce-ment in the 1970s. He worked in South Dakota towns bordering three Indian reservations, assisting federal and trib-al agencies embroiled in conflicts with American Indian Movement activists. He then moved to Gillette, Wyo., and found his niche as a sheriff’s deputy and firearms instructor. During his 38-year career, he served as police chief, policy adviser and supervisor for several agen-cies. Now retired and pursuing writing, Wendelboe revisits the Pine Ridge Res-ervation for recreation and research for his Spirit Road Mysteries series.

CRAIG WILSON Craig Wilson was a feature writer at USA Today for 30 years, writing his popular Wednesday column, “The Fi-nal Word,” from 1996 to 2013. A col-lection of his columns was published as It’s the Little Things: An Appreciation of Life’s Simple Pleasures. His essays also appear in Mothers and Children, a pho-to book from National Geographic. He has been a speaker and participant at numerous writers’ workshops, includ-ing the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Work-shop at the University of Dayton. He is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

JERRY WILSONJerry Wilson has worked on a farm, as a college professor, reporter and man-aging editor of South Dakota Maga-zine. His publications include over 100 stories in South Dakota Magazine and three books. Blackjacks and Blue Dev-ils (2011) recreates through fiction the characters and images of the western life he has known. Waiting for Coyote’s Call: An Eco-memoir from the Missouri River Bluff (2008) details a quarter cen-tury of living with nature. American Ar-

tery: A Pan American Journey (2000) tells the stories of people and places along his trip from Canada to Panama.

NORMA C. WILSONNorma C. Wilson has authored three books: Wild Iris, The Nature of Native American Poetry and Under the Rain-bow: Poems from Mojácar. She collab-orated with her husband, Jerry Wilson, to write the script for South Dakota: A Meeting of Cultures and with Charles Woodard to edit One-Room Country School. Wilson’s poems have appeared in South Dakota Magazine, Paddlefish, Caduceus and South Dakota Review. Wilson taught English at the University of South Dakota for 27 years. She and Jerry live above the Missouri River near Vermillion.

SARA WOSTERSouth Dakota native Sara Woster stud-ied painting at the University of Min-nesota before moving to New York City. She has exhibited paintings and animation internation-ally and has written col-laborative multimedia performances presented at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis. Woster holds a BFA in creative writing from The New School in New York and has published several non-fiction essays. She and her family divide time between Brooklyn and Northern Minnesota.

ROSE ROSS ZEDIKER Rose Ross Zediker started penning short pieces for children’s Sunday school take-home papers. During the two-plus decades she’s been writing, her byline has appeared on over 60 works

of fiction, non-fiction and Sunday school cur-riculum. When she de-cided to write a book, it seemed natural to pen inspirational romances. Zediker and her hus-

band live in southeastern South Dako-ta, where she works at the University of South Dakota.

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SCHEDULEOF EVENTS

MONDAY, Sept. 161 – 3 pm — Spearfish Senior Center, 1306 10th St., Spearfish — Book Talk and Signing, Charles Rogers, South Dakota’s Challenges Since 1960

TUESDAY, Sept. 176:30 – 8 pm — Whitewood Public Library, 1201 Ash St., Whitewood — Local Author Signing Party, featur-ing Whitewood Elementary School sixth grade class, A Journey Through Time: Whitewood Schools 1888-2013

7 – 9 pm — Days of ’76 Museum, 18 Seventy-Six Dr., Deadwood — Screening of The Buffalo King and discus-sion with filmmaker Justin Koehler

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 18All Day — Deadwood — Deadwood Paint Out, SD artists will be painting on the streets of Deadwood

1 – 4 pm — D.C. Booth National Historic Fish Hatchery & Archives, 423 Hatchery Circle, Spearfish — Author Signing Party, D.C. Booth Society, Images of America: Spearfish National Fish Hatchery

5 – 7 pm — Yates Education Building, Sanford Underground Research Facility, 630 E. Summit St., Lead — Lead Chamber of Commerce Mixer (5 pm), Panel Discussion of Homestake History with Steven T. Mitchell, Nuggets to Neutrinos: The Homestake Story (6 pm)

7 – 9 pm — Dahl Arts Center, 713 Seventh St., Rapid City — Women Behaving Badly, Lorelei James (Lori Armstrong), Kissin’ Tell & Rhiannon Frater, The Tale of the Vampire Bride

THURSDAY, Sept. 197 – 10 pm — Historic Homestake Opera House, 313 West Main St., Lead — Festival Fundraiser and Author Reception with StoryCorps representative on hand, followed by Concert with Dakota Jazz Collective and Readings by Ann Charles — $50 TICKET REQUIRED

FRIDAY, Sept. 2010 am – 12 pm — Deadwood Mountain Grand, Prospector Room — Workshop: Writing Your Memoir — Darcy Lipp-Acord — $20 TICKET REQUIRED

10 am – 12 pm — Deadwood MountainGrand, Hotel Conference Room —Workshop: Writing Strong Beginnings —Mary Casanova — $20 TICKET REQUIRED

10 am – 12 pm — Deadwood Public Library, Main Floor — Workshop: Writing Poetry — Heid Erdrich — $20 TICKET REQUIRED

10 am – 12 pm — Deadwood Public Library, Downstairs — Workshop: Playwriting: The Voice that Isn’t Yours — Susan Dworkin — $20 TICKET REQUIRED

10 am – 12 pm — Days of ’76 Museum — Workshop: Reaching Readers: Publishing and Marketing Your Work — Sandra Brannan, Ann Charles, C.M. Wendelboe — $20 TICKET REQUIRED

10 am – 2 pm — Franklin Hotel, Emerald Room — Writing Marathon — Dakota Writing Project — $15 TICKET REQUIRED

11am – 12 pm — Deadwood Mountain Grand, Bill’s Backstage Bar — SDPB Live Broadcast — Dakota Midday Book Club with Festival Authors

1 – 2 pm — Deadwood Mountain Grand, Prospector Room — Circling Back Home: A Plainswoman’s Journey — Darcy Lipp-Acord

1 – 2:30 pm — Deadwood Public Library, Main Floor — Reception: Pulitzer Prize Times Two Equals Ted Kooser and Michael Dirda

1:30 – 4 pm — Deadwood Mountain Grand, Hotel Conference Room — Film Screening and Discussion — Hey Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird — Mary McDonagh Murphy

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2 – 6 pm — Deadwood Mountain Grand, Event Center — Exhibitors’ Hall Open

2 – 3 pm — Deadwood Mountain Grand, Event Center — The Attacking Ocean — Brian Fagan — FREE TICKET REQUIRED

2 – 3:30 pm — Deadwood Mountain Grand, Prospector Room — Motionpoems Screening — Todd Boss

3 – 4 pm — Deadwood Mountain Grand, Event Center — What the Plants Told Me: Zip — Bill Heavey — FREE TICKET REQUIRED

3 – 4:30 pm — Deadwood Public Library, Downstairs — Readings by Undergraduate Writers from South Dakota Colleges

4 – 5 pm — Deadwood Mountain Grand, Event Center — Early Bird Book Signings

6 – 7:45 pm — Martin & Mason Hotel, 1898 Grand Ballroom — Literary Feast: Reflections on Water — Danielle Sosin, Brian Fagan, Peter Heller, Linda Hogan, Merlyn Magner — $45 TICKET REQUIRED

7:30 – 9 pm — Deadwood Mountain Grand, Prospector Room — Open Mic — South Dakota State Poetry Society

To purchase and print tickets for events featuring meals or work-shops, or to print FREE tickets for reserved seats at keynote events on the main stage in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Event Center, please visit www.sdbookfesti-val.com and click on the orange “Register Now” button.

Times and presenters are subject to change. Please check the Festival Survivor’s Guide (available at the Exhibitor’s Hall information booth in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Event Center or online at www. sdbookfestival.com) for updates.


!SATURDAY, Sept. 21KEY: CHILDREN’S/Y.A. | FICTION | HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING | NON-FICTION | POETRY | WRITERS’ SUPPORT

SATURDAY EVENING EVENTS at the Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel

5:30 – 7 pm Poetry Cafe with Ted Kooser, Naomi Shihab Nye, Heid Erdrich & Christine Stewart-Nuñez (Spon-sored by SD State Poetry Society) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

Event Center5:30 – 9 pm Deadwood Paint-Out

Wet SaleEvent Center

7:30 – 9 pm It’s the End of the World as We Know It: The Appeal of Apocalyp-tic Literature (Peter Heller, Rhian-non Frater & Richard Van Camp) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

Event Center

Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel Masonic Temple Deadwood Public Library Lead-Deadwood Elementary St. Ambrose Catholic Church

Franklin Hotel Homestake Adams Research

& Cultural CenterEvent Center Prospector Rm Conference Rm Main Floor Second Floor Third Floor Main Floor Downstairs Auditorium Gym Emerald Rm

8 – 8:45 am Four Quarters to a Sec-tion: Readings from the SD State Poetry Society

9 – 9:45 am EXHIBITORS’ HALL OPENS Pine Beetles & Tar Sands: Writing about Environmental Issues (Andrew Nikiforuk)

European Interest in Western American Literature (Craig Johnson & Kent Meyers)

Writing What You Don’t Know: The Art Forger (B.A. Shapiro)

Early Day Water Rights & Water Fights in the Lead-Deadwood Area (Steven T. Mitchell)

Unforgettable vs. Unforgiveable Villains (Sandra Brannan)

Writing Motherhood: The Messy & the Miraculous (Christine Stewart-Nuñez)

Local Color as American Literature (Joseph Bottum)

Native American Culture in Y.A. Fantasy: The Hidden Powers Trilogy (V.R. Janis)

CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES

Blackjacks & Blue Devils: Truth in a Pack of Lies (Jerry Wilson)

Ready, Set, Goal! Achieve Your Writing Dreams (Rose Ross Zediker)

Writing for Teens (Walter Dean Myers & Margaret Peterson Haddix) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

10 – 10:45 am Life & Writing in the Mountain Time Zone (C.J. Box) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

The Best of Youth (Michael Dahlie)

A Separate Country: Post-Coloniality & American Indian Nations (Elizabeth Cook Lynn)

The State of Media (Bob Garfield)

Deadwood Dead Men (Bill Markley)

Real People, Real Places, Fictional Stories (Natalee Caple & Ann Charles)

Writing the Rural Midwest (Todd Boss)

Writing Mystery vs. Writing Romance (Lori Armstrong)

Enticing Early Readers with Images (Sara Woster)


How a Poet Ends Up Writing a Cookbook (Heid Erdrich)

Writing Groups: Success, Friendship & Coffee (Marilyn Johnson & Mary McDonagh Murphy)

11 – 11:45 am The Long-Shining Waters (Danielle Sosin) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

The Scientist Detective: Using Science to Solve Mysteries (Karen Hall)

Spirituality & the Earth: An Indigenous Philosophy (Linda Hogan)

On Conan Doyle: Or the Whole Art of Storytelling (Michael Dirda)

The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History (Jon Lauck)

Writing About Lies, Spies & Government Secrets (Marcia Mitchell)

Prism of Memory: Readings and Reflections from Under the Rainbow (Norma Wilson)

War Poetry & Prose (Christopher Merrill)

Among the Books: Writing the Y.A. Series (Margaret Peterson Haddix)


A Flood of Emotions: Finding Meaning After Tragedy (Merlyn Magner)

A Craft Reading: How Draft Leads to Draft (Kent Meyers)

11 am – 12:30 pmMcKenna & Friends: Tea with American Girl Author Mary CasanovaTICKET REQUIRED ($12.50)12 – 12:45 pm Western Crime Wave

(C.J. Box, Craig Johnson, Lori Armstrong, Sandra Brannan, Ann Charles, C.M. Wendelboe) TICKET REQUIRED ($10 for boxed meal, FREE for reserved seat only)

Zombies & Vampires: The Lure of Fantasy (Rhiannon Frater)

Stories from 30 Years at USA Today (Craig Wilson)

What to Read Now (Tammy Barrows, Dave Strain & Bob Minzesheimer)TICKET REQUIRED ($10 for boxed meal, FREE for reserved seat only)

How the Lake Writes My Poems (Freya Manfred)

Nurturing Wakanyeja [Children] Through Reading (Robin Carmody & Jace DeCory)


1 – 1:45 pm Mass Book Signings in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel Event Center! Mass Book Signings in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel Event Center!

2 – 2:45 pm From Fact to Fiction: The Dog Stars (Peter Heller) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

Ocean & Shoreline as Character in the Exiles (Allison Lynn)

Filmmakers on Filmmaking (Charles Nauman & Thomas Pope)

Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life (David Treuer)

A Divided Heart: Exploring the Immigrant Experi- ence Through a Collection of Family Letters (Jane Torness Rasmussen)

Longmire: From Page to Screen (Craig Johnson) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

A Wandering Poet (Naomi Shihab Nye)

The Farm Bill: Writing the Political Play (Susan Dworkin)

Stories I’ve Learned Writing Baby Books (Richard Van Camp)


Inspirational Romance: The Faith Factor (Rose Ross Zediker)

3 – 3:45 pm What’s Next for News? (Bob Garfield, Bob Minzesheimer & Craig Wilson) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

Calamity Jane in Fiction & Reality (Natalee Caple)

Granite Island, Amber Sea: How to Publish an Anthology (Black Hills Writers Group)

Is Writing Really “Torture”? (Pete Dexter, Rob Fleder & Marilyn Johnson, moderator)

Captain Jack Crawford & the Black Hills Gold Rush (Paul Hedren)

Plot is a Verb (B.A. Shapiro)

The Carnival, the Life: A Reading (David Allan Evans)

Death on the Greasy Grass: A Reading (C.M. Wendelboe)

Write What Haunts You: Frozen and the Klipfish Code (Mary Casanova)


Much More than Flyover Country: Reading, Writing & Publishing in South Dakota (Jon Lauck & Joseph Bottum)

4 – 4:45 pm 4 pmEXHIBITORS’ HALL CLOSES

The Western Movie (Thomas Pope)

Open Mic (Black Hills Writers Group)

A Message from the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature: Reading Is Not Optional! (Walter Dean Myers) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

Double Woman & how it goes jumping: A Reading (Charles Nauman)

5:30 – 9 pm Bill’s Boxed Meals Available TICKET REQUIRED ($10)Backstage Bar

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SOME REGISTRATION REQUIREDAttendees must register in advance to reserve a seat for main stage or keynote events or to purchase a ticket for events featuring food. To register, visit www.sdbookfestival.com and click on the orange “Register Now” button or call (605) 688-6113. Times and presenters are subject to change. Check the Festival Survivor’s Guide (at the Exhibitors’ Hall information booth or online at www.sdbookfestival.com) for updates.!

SATURDAY EVENING EVENTS at the Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel9 – 9:45 pm Radio Play:

“Zombie 911” (Richard Van Camp)

Prospector Rm

7:30 – 8:45 pm It’s the End of the World as We Know It: The Appeal of Apoca-lyptic Literature (Peter Heller, Richard Van Camp & ONE More)

Event Center

Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel Masonic Temple Deadwood Public Library Lead-Deadwood Elementary St. Ambrose Catholic Church

Franklin Hotel Homestake Adams Research

& Cultural CenterEvent Center Prospector Rm Conference Rm Main Floor Second Floor Third Floor Main Floor Downstairs Auditorium Gym Emerald Rm

8 – 8:45 am Four Quarters to a Sec-tion: Readings from the SD State Poetry Society

9 – 9:45 am EXHIBITORS’ HALL OPENS Pine Beetles & Tar Sands: Writing about Environmental Issues (Andrew Nikiforuk)

European Interest in Western American Literature (Craig Johnson & Kent Meyers)

Writing What You Don’t Know: The Art Forger (B.A. Shapiro)

Early Day Water Rights & Water Fights in the Lead-Deadwood Area (Steven T. Mitchell)

Unforgettable vs. Unforgiveable Villains (Sandra Brannan)

Writing Motherhood: The Messy & the Miraculous (Christine Stewart-Nuñez)

Local Color as American Literature (Joseph Bottum)

Native American Culture in Y.A. Fantasy: The Hidden Powers Trilogy (V.R. Janis)


Blackjacks & Blue Devils: Truth in a Pack of Lies (Jerry Wilson)

Ready, Set, Goal! Achieve Your Writing Dreams (Rose Ross Zediker)

Writing for Teens (Walter Dean Myers & Margaret Peterson Haddix) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

10 – 10:45 am Life & Writing in the Mountain Time Zone (C.J. Box) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

The Best of Youth (Michael Dahlie)

A Separate Country: Post-Coloniality & American Indian Nations (Elizabeth Cook Lynn)

The State of Media (Bob Garfield)

Deadwood Dead Men (Bill Markley)

Real People, Real Places, Fictional Stories (Natalee Caple & Ann Charles)

Writing the Rural Midwest (Todd Boss)

Writing Mystery vs. Writing Romance (Lori Armstrong)

Enticing Early Readers with Images (Sara Woster)


How a Poet Ends Up Writing a Cookbook (Heid Erdrich)

Writing Groups: Success, Friendship & Coffee (Marilyn Johnson & Mary McDonagh Murphy)

11 – 11:45 am The Long-Shining Waters (Danielle Sosin) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

The Scientist Detective: Using Science to Solve Mysteries (Karen Hall)

Spirituality & the Earth: An Indigenous Philosophy (Linda Hogan)

On Conan Doyle: Or the Whole Art of Storytelling (Michael Dirda)

The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History (Jon Lauck)

Writing About Lies, Spies & Government Secrets (Marcia Mitchell)

Prism of Memory: Readings and Reflections from Under the Rainbow (Norma Wilson)

War Poetry & Prose (Christopher Merrill)

Among the Books: Writing the Y.A. Series (Margaret Peterson Haddix)


A Flood of Emotions: Finding Meaning After Tragedy (Merlyn Magner)

A Craft Reading: How Draft Leads to Draft (Kent Meyers)

11 am – 12:30 pmMcKenna & Friends: Tea with American Girl Author Mary CasanovaTICKET REQUIRED ($12.50)12 – 12:45 pm Western Crime Wave

(C.J. Box, Craig Johnson, Lori Armstrong, Sandra Brannan, Ann Charles, C.M. Wendelboe) TICKET REQUIRED ($10 for boxed meal, FREE for reserved seat only)

Zombies & Vampires: The Lure of Fantasy (Rhiannon Frater)

Stories from 30 Years at USA Today (Craig Wilson)

What to Read Now (Tammy Barrows, Dave Strain & Bob Minzesheimer)TICKET REQUIRED ($10 for boxed meal, FREE for reserved seat only)

How the Lake Writes My Poems (Freya Manfred)

Nurturing Wakanyeja [Children] Through Reading (Robin Carmody & Jace DeCory)


1 – 1:45 pm Mass Book Signings in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel Event Center! Mass Book Signings in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel Event Center!

2 – 2:45 pm From Fact to Fiction: The Dog Stars (Peter Heller) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

Ocean & Shoreline as Character in the Exiles (Allison Lynn)

Filmmakers on Filmmaking (Charles Nauman & Thomas Pope)

Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life (David Treuer)

A Divided Heart: Exploring the Immigrant Experi- ence Through a Collection of Family Letters (Jane Torness Rasmussen)

Longmire: From Page to Screen (Craig Johnson) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

A Wandering Poet (Naomi Shihab Nye)

The Farm Bill: Writing the Political Play (Susan Dworkin)

Stories I’ve Learned Writing Baby Books (Richard Van Camp)


Inspirational Romance: The Faith Factor (Rose Ross Zediker)

3 – 3:45 pm What’s Next for News? (Bob Garfield, Bob Minzesheimer & Craig Wilson) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

Calamity Jane in Fiction & Reality (Natalee Caple)

Granite Island, Amber Sea: How to Publish an Anthology (Black Hills Writers Group)

Is Writing Really “Torture”? (Pete Dexter, Rob Fleder & Marilyn Johnson, moderator)

Captain Jack Crawford & the Black Hills Gold Rush (Paul Hedren)

Plot is a Verb (B.A. Shapiro)

The Carnival, the Life: A Reading (David Allan Evans)

Death on the Greasy Grass: A Reading (C.M. Wendelboe)

Write What Haunts You: Frozen and the Klipfish Code (Mary Casanova)


Much More than Flyover Country: Reading, Writing & Publishing in South Dakota (Jon Lauck & Joseph Bottum)

4 – 4:45 pm 4 pmEXHIBITORS’ HALL CLOSES

The Western Movie (Thomas Pope)

Open Mic (Black Hills Writers Group)

A Message from the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature: Reading Is Not Optional! (Walter Dean Myers) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

Double Woman & how it goes jumping: A Reading (Charles Nauman)

SUNDAY, Sept. 22 at the Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel10 – 10:45 am Book Lovers’

Brunch Buffet TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Event Center11 – 11:45 am Gazing into the Future of Books &

Publishing (Michael Dirda, Marilyn Johnson & Bob Minzesheimer, mod-erator) FREE TICKET REQUIRED

Event Center


AUTHORSLisa Airey, Monkton, MD, www.lisamairey.com

Jan E. Terrall, Books By Terrall, Custer, SD

Doris Carlson, Sioux Falls, SDwww.bubblesdoriscarlson.com

Kathryn Dahlstrom – WriteWright, Inc.Cambridge, MN, www.kathryndahlstrom.com

John English, Belle Fourche, SD, www.bhsw.org

Jason Irby, Little Rock, ARwww.lovewithinlife-jasonirby.com

Joanna Jones – Jones LiteratureSpearfish, SD, www.jonesliterature.com

Joe Krogman – John Harwell MysteriesEagan, MN, www.joekrogman.com

Steve Linstrom, Marshall, MNwww.stevenlinstromwriter.com

Bill Markley, Pierre, SD, www.billmarkley.com

Kari McLaughlin, Gillette, WYwww.tatepublishing.com

Amanda Radke, Mitchell, SD

Charles Rogers, Sioux Falls, SD

Bruce Roseland, Seneca, SD

Kelly Van Hull, Sioux Falls, SDwww.kellyvanhull.com

Dave Volk – SD Kids Books, Sioux Falls, SDwww.sdkidsbooks.com

Bill Walker, Belle Fourche, SD

Doug O’Neill & Dan Gilbertson – Widowers with Children, Brookings, SD & Arvada, COwww.griefodyssey.com

Jason Willis Novels, Mapleton, MNwww.jasonleewillis.com

Mary Yungeberg, Valley Springs, SDwww.maryyungeberg.com

BOOKSELLERSBooks-A-Million, Rapid City, SDwww.booksamillion.com

Usborne Books & More, Hudson, SDwww.patsysbookstore.com

MEDIASD Public Broadcasting, Vermillion, SDwww.sdpb.org

ORGANIZATIONSCenter for Western Studies, Sioux Falls, SDwww.augie.edu/cws

Christian Science Committee on PublicationRapid City, SD

Matthews Opera House & Arts Center – The Big Read, Spearfish, SD, www.matthewsopera.com

South Dakota State Poetry Societysdstatepoetrysociety.wordpress.com

Western Writers of America, westernwriters.org

PUBLISHERSNemsi Books, Pierpont, SDwww.nemsi-books.com

SD State Historical Society Press, Pierre, SDwww.sdshspress.com

TANSTAAFL Press, Yelm, WAwww.tanstaaflpress.com

University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NEwww.nebraskapress.unl.edu

The Exhibitors’ Hall is located in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Event Center.Open from 2 to 6 pm on Friday and 9 am to 4 pm on Saturday.

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September 20-22, 2013 D e a d w o o d , S Dwww.sdbookfestival.com 605-688-6113

PRESENTING PARTNERS

TRIBUTE SPONSORS

CELEBRATING 11 YEARS!

Save the Date:12th Annual South Dakota Festival of Books

September 26 – 28, 2014, Sioux Falls

A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OF THE DONORS AND VOLUNTEERS WHO SUPPORT SOUTHDAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL PROGRAMS.

The Ament Group of Morgan Stanley Smith BarneySheryl Baloun | Black Hills Power

Dakota West Books | Deadwood History, Inc.Deadwood Mountain Grand | Deadwood Public Library

Tom and Sherry DeBoer | The de Groot FoundationFirst Bank and Trust | Franklin Hotel

Historic Homestake Opera House in LeadFee and Jerry Jacobsen | Sandy Jerstad

Robert and Gerry Berger Law Lead-Deadwood Elementary School

Martin & Mason Hotel | Masonic TempleHon. Judith Meierhenry | Matthew Moen | Jean Nicholson

Scott and Linda Rausch | Dan and Becky SchenkJerry and Gail Simmons | South Dakota Magazine

South Dakota State University Office of the PresidentSt. Ambrose Parish | Jack and Linda Stengel

TDG Communications | Ann McKay ThompsonAnn and Robert Weisgarber

William Walsh | Watertown Community Foundation

MASONIC TEMPLE

Documents

2013 Festival of Books Guide