My essay for The New Territory on author and activist, Zitkála-Šá will be featured in a book entitled Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest. It’s coming out this December with University of Illinois Press!
The book is edited by Andy Oler, with a foreword written by one of my favorite poets, José Olivarez. I had the pleasure of meeting José when he did a poetry reading for the Kellogg Writers Series at the University of Indianapolis back in 2024.
Here’s the description of the book:
How do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a region relevant to the people who live there?
In this expansive anthology, Andy Oler collects 73 original short essays by a diverse array of contemporary writers. Each explores locales in Midwestern literature relevant to the life and work of literary figures and canonical authors such as Toni Morrison and Willa Cather. Lingering in these places in both body and mind, the contributors contemplate the resonances and desires nurtured by their chosen location. Together, the essays take readers on an odyssey that maps our inner longing to connect across vast landscapes.
A singular collection of creative nonfiction, Lingering Inland plumbs the personal and collective essence that binds Midwesterners together through words and places.
Some of my fellow co-authors and I will be joining our editor Andy Oler to chat about our book at Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest on October 11. Details are here: https://indianahumanities.org/event/literary-landscapes-of-the-midwest/
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