Join NHCC each semester as they introduce authors of select books. The authors will be reading from their books, discussing themes, and answering questions. Books will also be available for purchase and author autographs.
This spring semester, NHCC will feature six authors. These events are free and open to the public. Space is limited, so early arrival is suggested, and large groups or classes should contact brian.baumgart@nhcc.edu for seating accommodations.
January 24, 2012
2:30pm-4:00pm, Center for Liberal Arts (CLA), room 120.
Ellen Lanksy, "Golden Jeep"
Ellen Lansky was born in Minneapolis and grew up in Overland Park, Kansas. She attended to college at the College of St. Catherine in St Paul, MN and graduate school at SUNY-Binghamton (MA) and the University of Minnesota (PhD). Her scholarly work on literature and addiction has appeared in Dionysos, Literature and Medicine, and several anthologies. Her fiction has appeared in many local and national publications, including Sugar Mule, Evergreen Chronicles, and Stiller's Pond. In 2011, North Star Press of St. Cloud published her first novel, Golden Jeep, the story of a lesbian woman who must deal with her pregnancy by donor and her mother dying from cancer.
Feburary 9, 2012
2:30pm-4:00pm, CLA-120
Bao Phi, "Sông I Sing"
A two-time Minnesota Grand Slam champion and a National Poetry Slam finalist, Bao Phi has appeared on HBO Presents Russell Simmons Def Poetry, and a poem of his appeared in the 2006 Best American Poetry anthology. His poems and essays are widely published in numerous publications including Screaming Monkeys and Spoken Word Revolution Redux. He has also released several CDs of his poetry, such as the recently sold-out Refugeography to his newest CD, The Nguyens EP. His series at The Loft Literary Center, Equilibrium, recently won the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Anti-Racism Initiative Award. In 2011, Coffee House Press published his first book of poetry, Sông I Sing. More: http://www.baophi.com/.
March 7, 2012
10:00am-10:50am, CLA-114
Kathryn Kysar, "Pretend the World"
Kathryn Kysar is the author of two books of poetry, Dark Lake (Loonfeather) and Pretend the World (Holy Cow!), and she edited Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers (Minnesota Historical Society Press). She has received fellowships from Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, the Minnesota State Arts Board, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Kysar recently served on the board of directors for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and teaches at Anoka-Ramsey Community College and the Loft Literary Center and lives with her family in St. Paul.
March 28, 2012
2:00pm-3:30pm, CLA-120
Nicole Helget, "The Summer of Ordinary Ways"
Nicole Helget grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota, a childhood and place she drew on in the writing of her debut memoir, The Summer of Ordinary Ways (Borealis Books), which was a Barnes & Noble Notable Book of the Year. She received her BA and an MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She now lives with her family in Mankato, Minnesota. Her novel, The Turtle Catcher (Houghton Mifflin/Mariner), was awarded the Tamarack Prize from Minnesota Monthly based on the novel’s first chapter and the 2004 Speakeasy Prize. More: http://nicolehelget.net/.
April 11, 2012
10:00am-10:50am, CLA-114
Su Smallen, "Buddha, Proof"
Su Smallen is the author of Buddha, Proof (Broadcraft Press), a Minnesota Book Award 2012 finalist in poetry, and Weight of Light (Laurel Poetry Collective), nominated for the Pushcart Press Editor’s Book Award. http://susmallen.com
April 23, 2012
2:00pm-3:30pm, location TBA
Diane Wilson, "Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life"
Diane Wilson is a creative nonfiction writer. Her essays and memoir use personal experience to illustrate broader social and historical context. Her first book, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past (Borealis Books), won the 2006 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir, Autobiography, and Creative Nonfiction. Her second book, Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life (Borealis Books), was released in September 2011. More: http://wilsonwords.com/.
April 24, 2012
9:30am-10:45am- location TBA
Anton Treuer, "Ojibwe in Minnesota and The Assassination of Hole in the Day"
Dr. Anton Treuer is Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University. He has a B.A. from Princeton University, M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is editor of the Oshkaabewis Native Journal, the only academic journal of the Ojibwe language and author of 8 books, including Ojibwe in Minnesota and The Assassination of Hole in the Day (both from Minnesota Historical Society Press). Dr. Treuer has sat on many organizational boards, including the White Earth Land Recovery Project, Sanford/MeritCare Health System, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Dr. Treuer has received more than 40 prestigious awards and fellowships from many organizations, including the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Bush Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Prior Guest Authors
Bronson Lemer, “The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq"Lemer served in the North Dakota Army National Guard for six years, including deployments to Kosovo and Iraq. His writing has appeared in Blue Earth Review, The Rekjavik Grapevine, and Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers. He has taught at Turtle Mountain Community College near Belcourt, North Dakota, and currently teaches English and writing at the University of Minnesota-Rochester.
Tom Montgomery Fate, "Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father’s Search for the Wild"
Fate is the author of five nonfiction books. His essays have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, Orion, Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, Riverteeth, Sojourners, Christian Century, and many other journals and anthologies, as well as regularly featured on National Public Radio and Chicago Public Radio. Fate is a graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and of Chicago Theological Seminary. He is currently a professor of English at College of DuPage, in suburban Chicago, where he also lives with his wife and three children.
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