LeAnne Howe + Marc Anthony Richardson

Choctalking on Other Realities is the most recent book by novelist, poet, playwright and scholar LeAnne Howe (Choctaw). Her novels include Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story and Shell Shaker, which won the Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award. She is currently at work on a documentary film with Ojibwe filmmaker James M. Fortier about the life of Sequoyah, a Cherokee leader and creator of the first written indigenous language in Native North American. Howe is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia and was awarded the inaugural 2014 MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures.

In her advance praise of Marc Anthony Richardson’s award-winning debut novel, Year of the Rat, Cristina García writes, “…you must stop everything you’re doing right now and make time for it. Gorgeous, unsparing, heartbreaking, the book is a prose poem of a testament to motherhood, to manhood, to lost generations, to hope itself. ” Richardson is an artist and writer from Philadelphia and alum of the MFA program at Mills College. His awards include those from the Vermont Studio Center and Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.