“An Evening with Janet Campbell Hale” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building Room 123.
Hale’s book of essays, “Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter,” won the 1994 American Book Award in Creative Non-fiction. She also is the author of the novels “The Owl’s Song” and “The Jailing of Cecilia Capture” and a collection of short fiction, “Women on the Run.”
After receiving a 1974 bachelor’s degree in rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, Hale studied law for two years, and then earned a master’s degree in English at the University of California, Davis, in 1984.
She taught at Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, Wash., and was writer-in-residence at the University of Oregon, Eugene as well as a visiting distinguished writer at the University of Washington, Eastern Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., and the University of Idaho.
Hale also was the Thornton Writer at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Va., and most recently served as visiting professor of Native American Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She currently lives in Desmet, Idaho, on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation.
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