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One Book, One University - Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir

The library has print and online copies of the book.

 

Community Lecture 10/26/22 @ 3 pm

One Book, One University Community Lecture

Dr. Deborarh Miranda, author of Bad Indians.

Wednesday, October 26, 2022 @ 3pm

Morgan Auditorium

About the Book

The College of Arts and Sciences has selected author Deborah A. Miranda’s book Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir  as the 2022-23 academic year selection for One Book, One University.

Winner of the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Literary Award

Winner of the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal for Autobiography/Memoir

Shortlisted for the 2014 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing

About the Author

Deborah A. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. Deborah lives in Eugene, Oregon with her wife, writer Margo Solod, and a variety of rescue dogs. She is Professor of English emerita at Washington and Lee University, where she taught literature of the margins and creative writing as the Thomas H. Broadus, Jr. Endowed Chair.

Her mixed-genre memoir Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir received the 2015 PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, a Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Association, and was short-listed for the William Saroyan Literary Award. She is also the author of four poetry collections: Indian CartographyThe Zen of La LloronaRaised by Humans, and Altar for Broken Things. She is the co-editor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature and contributing editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through. Photo by Margo Solod.

https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/bad-indians-a-tribal-memoir/