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The next reader is someone I've
had a great pleasure to know

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for a good while now, and I
really appreciate her work,

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and watching her move
through the world.

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She's currently working on
her MFA, and just finished,

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I think, editing
for Drunken Boat,

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a special edition with
emerging native women writers.

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Layli Long Soldier
is Oglala Lakota,

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her family is from Pine
Ridge, South Dakota,

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and northwestern Idaho.

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She holds the BFA
in creative writing

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from the Institute of
American Indian Arts,

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and is a two-time recipient
of the Truman Capote Creative

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Writing Fellowship there.

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She's also a recipient of the
2009 Naropa University Poetry

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Scholarship, and has
served as editor-in-chief

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for the Native Language
Network and other publications

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for the Indigenous
Language Institute,

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in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Her first chapbook of poetry
is titled Chromosomory,

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from Q Avenue Press, in 2009.

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Please welcome a wonderful
poet, Layli Long Soldier.

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[APPLAUSE]

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