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Spring 2023 Writer's Workshop Reading Series

We welcome Jody Keisner, Ryan RedCorn, C. Dale Young, and Emily Danforth to the Spring 2023 Writer's Workshop Reading Series!

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Jody Keisner | Wed | February 22 | 7:30 pm | Weber Fine Arts Gallery

Jody Keisner is a first-generation college graduate, teacher, and author of Under My Bed and Other Essays. Her work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Fourth Genre, Cimarron Review, Post Road, Brevity, Threepenny Review, Hunger Mountain, The Rumpus, The Normal School, Hippocampus, Essay Daily, Women’s Studies, and many other literary journals and magazines. Her essay Runaway Mother is a notable Best American Essay 2022.


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Ryan RedCorn (Osage) | Tue | March 7 | 7:30 pm | Benson Theatre

Ryan was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He co-founded the Indigenous comedy troupe the 1491s and started a full services ad agency in Pawhuska, Oklahoma called Buffalo Nickel Creative. He remarked, “I live a crazy life” and promptly enrolled in an MFA in screenwriting program to test his capacity for stress. He graduated in the Spring of 2020 and is presently alive, vaccinated, and serving his second stint as a writer on the third season of FX’s TV show, Reservation Dogs.


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C. Dale Young | Wed | March 29 | 7:30 pm | Weber Fine Arts Gallery

C. Dale Young is the author of a novel, The Affliction, and five collections of poetry, the most recent being Prometeo. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, he practices medicine full-time and teaches for the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He lives in San Francisco.


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Emily Danforth | Wed | April 12 | 7:30 pm | Weber Fine Arts Gallery

Emily’s debut (Young Adult) novel, The Miseducation Of Cameron Post, was a finalist for the American Library Association’s Morris Debut Award and won the 2012 Montana Book Award. The Miseducation of Cameron Post was later adapted into a Sundance award-winning feature film directed by Desiree Akhavan and has been translated into eight languages. Emily has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Montana and a Ph.D in English-Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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