Monday, September 11 at 6PM, join Stacie Shannon Denetsosie and Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of the national bestselling novel Woman of Light, to celebrate the launch of Stacie’s debut short story collection The Missing Morningstar.
We can’t wait to send this gorgeous and profound collection into the world with you. This virtual book celebration takes place on Zoom, all are welcome to join, RSVPs mandatory!
RSVP HERE: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLScKTnMibTtyH8…/viewform
ABOUT THE MISSING MORNINGSTAR:
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 ... view more »
We can’t wait to send this gorgeous and profound collection into the world with you. This virtual book celebration takes place on Zoom, all are welcome to join, RSVPs mandatory!
RSVP HERE: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLScKTnMibTtyH8…/viewform
ABOUT THE MISSING MORNINGSTAR:
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. Preorder here: https://www.torreyhouse.org/produ…/the-missing-morningstar
ABOUT STACIE SHANNON DENETSOSIE:
Stacie Shannon Denetsosie is a member of the Navajo Nation and her clans are Todích\’íí\’nii (Bitterwater) and born for Naakaii Dine\’é (Mexican). Her work has appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, Scribendi, and Phoebe. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is a contributor to the Torrey House Press anthology Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild. She lives in Logan, Utah.
ABOUT KALI FAJARDO-ANSTINE:
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the nationally bestselling author of the novel Woman of Light and the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina & Corina, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of an American Book Award. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2021 recipient of the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Fajardo-Anstine is the 2022–2024 Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University. In 2023, her introduction to Willa Cather’s beloved classic Death Comes for the Archbishop will be published by Penguin Classics. She is from Denver, Colorado.
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