Poet and creative nonfiction writer Heid Erdrich and her sister, fiction writer Lise Erdrich, will be featured in the final fall 2008 Good Thunder Reading Series Robert C. Wright Minnesota Writer Residency at Minnesota State Mankato on Thursday, Nov. 20.
The Erdrichs will read from their published works at 7:30 p.m. in Centennial Student Union Room 253. They will meet with area writers and be interviewed on KMSU-FM in the morning, and will conduct a discussion on the craft of writing at 3 p.m. in Ostrander Auditorium.
Lindsay Schacht, creative writing major and winner of the 2008 Robert Wright Award, will join the Erdrichs at the evening session. An interview with the writers, part of KMSU’s “Authors in Transit” series, will air on KMSU 89.7 FM at 1 p.m. Nov. 20, and at 11 a.m. Nov. 21.
All events are free and open to the public.
Heid E. Erdrich won a Minnesota Voices award for her poetry collection “Fishing for Myth.” She also authored “The Mother’s Tongue” and co-edited “Sister Nations: Native American Women on Community.” She has received two Minnesota State Arts Board fellowships, awards from The Loft Literary Center and Bush Foundation, and was nominated three times for the Minnesota Book Award.
Lise Erdrich was born in Minnesota and has worked in Indian health and education for more than 20 years. A graduate of Minnesota State Mankato, she is the author of the children’s picture books “Sacagawea” and “Bears Make Rock Soup,” and the adult short-story collection “Night Train.”
Lindsay Schacht grew up in Pine Island, Minn., and is a creative writing major. One of her stories has been published in Blue Earth Review, and she plans to pursue an MFA.
The Good Thunder Reading Series is funded by the Department of English, the College of Arts & Humanities, the Office of Institutional Diversity, and the Nadine B. Andreas, Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer and Robert C. Wright Endowments, as well as individual donors. It is made possible by a grant from Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council (funds appropriated by the Minnesota Legislature and the McKnight Foundation), and a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board (legislative appropriation and National Endowment for the Arts grant). Library Services and the Barnes & Noble Bookstore provide additional assistance.
Those who want more information about the series may call Richard Robbins, Department of English, at 507-389-1354.
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