Our 3rd episode was recorded on December 9th, 2019 in Athens, Georgia.
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LeAnne Howe, born and raised in Oklahoma, is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation. Some awards include: the Western Literature
Association’s 2015 Distinguished Achievement Award for her body of work; the inaugural
2014 MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures; 2012 United States
Artists Ford Fellowship; and a 2010 Fulbright Scholarship to Jordan. She received the American Book Award in 2002
for her first novel, Shell Shaker. Her most recent book, Savage Conversations, 2019, Coffee House Press, is the story of Mary Todd Lincoln and a
Savage Indian spirit that she (Mary) imagined was torturing her nightly. Based on Mary Todd Lincoln’s letters and
reports from her doctors, scholar Philip J. Deloria writes, “[the book] explodes with the stench and guilt
and insanity that undergirds the American story.”
