Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle Talk

Literary scholar Kirstin Squint will deliver a lecture entitled “Native Southern Literature and EBCI Author Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle” on March 24 at 5:30 p.m. in preparation for Clapsaddle’s talk. To learn more about Dr. Squint’s lecture and to register, click here.

Author Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle will discuss her novel, Even As We Breathe, at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31.

Clapsaddle, the first enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) to publish a novel, holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. Her first novel manuscript, Going to Water, is winner of The Morning Star Award for Creative Writing from the Native American Literature Symposium (2012) and a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (2014). After serving as executive director of the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, Clapsaddle returned to teaching English and Cherokee studies at Swain County High School.

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