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Saturday May 24, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm MDT
This is THE premier reading for Mountain Words. These writers come to readers from the edges of a collective history that demands more than rote understanding of what it means to be Indigenous in the US. This is sure to be an evening of powerful storytelling from voices too powerful to be ignored. 
Speakers
avatar for Suzi Q. Smith

Suzi Q. Smith

Suzi Q. Smith is an award-winning author, artist, educator, and organizer who lives in Denver, Colorado. While primarily known for her poetry, Suzi is also a singer-songwriter, playwright, and interdisciplinary creative. She has created, curated, coached, and taught for over 20 years... Read More →
avatar for Aaron John Curtis

Aaron John Curtis

Aaron John Curtis is an enrolled member of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, which he’ll tell you is the white name for the American side of Akwesasne. Aaron has judged for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance prizes, the 2019 Kirkus... Read More →
avatar for Chris La Tray

Chris La Tray

Chris La Tray is a Métis storyteller. His first book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From the World At Large (2018, Riverfeet Press) won the 2018 Montana Book Award and a 2019 High Plains Book Award.His second book, a collection of haiku and haibun poetry called De... Read More →
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CMarie Fuhrman

CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and the co-editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has published poetry and nonfiction... Read More →
avatar for Deborah Taffa

Deborah Taffa

Deborah Taffa’s Whiskey Tender, a National Book Award Finalist 2024, as well as a longlisted title for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence, was named to the year’s best lists at Time Magazine, Esquire, Publisher’s Weekly, The Atlantic, Audible, Esquire, and other outlets... Read More →
Saturday May 24, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm MDT
1 Steddy Theater

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