Please join River Styx for the kickoff event of our exciting new Indigenous Writers Series. Each event is a virtual literary reading featuring emerging and established talent from local and international Indigenous communities. Featuring CMarie Fuhrman and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie.
Location: Virtual (Google Meet)
Event Fee: Free to attend
Register: Eventbrite (register with donation)
FEATURED WRITERS
Stacie Shannon Denetsosie (Diné) is Todích'íí'nii (Bitterwater Clan), born for Naakaii (Mexican Clan). She is a fiction writer and poet. Stacie is from Kayenta, Arizona, but currently resides in Northern Utah with her husband and cat. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts and her Master of Arts from Utah State University. Her work has appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, Phoebe Magazine, and Cut Bank, among other publications. She is a recipient of the UCROSS Native American Fellowship and the Prague Summer Program Poetry Fellowship. Torrey House Press released her debut short story collection, “The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories,” on Sept. 12, 2023. Her book “The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories” was named a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year, was a 2024 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist, and a Gold Forward INDIES award winner.
CMarie Fuhrman is a poet and author whose work is inspired by the Western landscape. She is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, coming in 2025, the poetry chapbook Camped Beneath the Dam, as well as the co-editor of two significant anthologies, Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has poetry and nonfiction published or forthcoming in a variety of publications, including Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, Alta Magazine, Northwest Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Poetry Northwest, Big Sky Journal, and various anthologies. CMarie is the director of the Elk River Writers Workshop and an award-winning columnist for The Inlander. She is the Associate Director and Poetry Director for Western Colorado University's Graduate Program in Creative Writing, where she also teaches Nature Writing. CMarie is the host of Terra Firma, a Colorado Public Radio program. She is a former Idaho Writer in Residence and lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho.
The Missing Morningstar by Stacie Shannon Denetsosie
From the publisher:
“Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he’s sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple’s search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum. This debut collection grapples with a complex and painful history alongside an inheritance of beauty, ceremony, and storytelling.”
Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return by CMarie Fuhrman
Forthcoming March 2025
From the publisher:
“In the heart of Idaho's Salmon River Mountains, a woman unknowingly begins what becomes a journey of understanding. Haunted by personal loss and the complex history of the American West, she seeks beauty and understanding at alpine lakes, beside wild rivers, crosscountry skiing, on trails, and with her dogs. Here, amidst granite peaks and endangered beings, she confronts the challenges and awe of nature, the ethics of hunting, the past, an uncertain future, and the depths of her own being. As she navigates physical and emotional landscapes, she grapples with questions of identity, belonging, and the delicate balance between humanity and the wild.
This is more than a personal narrative; it is a powerful call for environmental awareness, the feminine, understanding of history, and a celebration of beauty. With unflinching honesty, CMarie Fuhrman examines the complexities of history, the sacredness of the land, and the urgent need to protect our wild spaces. These essays resonate with a deep reverence for Indigenous people, history, and the natural world. They will speak to anyone who has found refuge in nature, wrestled with the past, or dared to envision a brighter tomorrow.”
Cascadia: Field Guide, edited by CMarie Fuhrman
From the publisher:
“Cascadia Field Guide brings together art, poetry, and stories holding scientific, sensory, and cultural knowledge to celebrate and illuminate Cascadia, the diverse ecoregion stretching from Alaska’s Prince William Sound to Northern California and from the Pacific Coast to the Continental Divide.
This unique book contains 13 communities (from Tidewater Glacier to Shrub-Steppe) and 128 beings (from Geoduck to Cassia Crossbill), offering any reader, local or visitor, a new way of connecting-–with heart and mind and body-–to place.”
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River Styx 108: Chronicles excavates the buried past from the desert sands.
Interview with Christopher Castellani.
Featuring poetry by Red Danielson, Mark Leidner, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Tameka Cage Conley, Lauren Haldeman, Thea Brown, and Jan Garden Castro.
Fiction by Brad Modlin, Sarah Starr Murphy, Scott Nadelson, Dimitris Lyacos (translated by Andrew Barrett), and Monica Macansantos.
Nonfiction by Pamela Baker and Tobey Ward.
Plays by E. Lang Baker and Yuge Ma.
Artwork by Red Danielson and Karborn.