Poet, writer and storyteller Susan Power will give several presentations and readings in Juneau this week.
Story last updated at 1/27/2010 - 11:29 am
JUNEAU - Poet, writer and storyteller Susan Power will give several presentations and readings in Juneau January 28-29.
Power is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and a law degree from Harvard University. Her first book, "The Grass Dancer," received a 1995 Pen/Hemingway Award.
Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in many venues, including Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, Voice Literary Supplement, Ploughshares, Story Magazine, and Harper's Bazaar, and have been anthologized in many collections, including Best American Short Stories, Vintage Contemporary Short Stories, Sister Nations, and Reinventing the Enemy's Language.
Power spent the past month in Sitka as the Island Institute artist in residence, and has agreed to stop over in Juneau on her way home to Minnesota.
Powers and local author Ernestine Hayes will offer a brown bag lecture at the Alaska State Museum at noon on Thursday, Jan. 28. Power will then read from some of her works at the Egan Lecture Hall, University of Alaska Southeast at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28. Finally, Powers will offer a reading at the downtown library at 7 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 29.
