Literary Festival: Drew Lopenzina & Remica Bingham- Risher

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Drew Lopenzina hails from the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts and teaches Early American and Native American literatures at Old Dominion University in Norfolk. His second book, Through an Indian's Looking Glass (University of Massachusetts Press), is a cultural biography of the Pequot writer, activist and minister William Apess, the first Native American to write and publish his own book length treatises and memoirs in the 1820's and 30's. Praise by Barry O'Connell states that Lopenzina "brings Apess nearly fully to life, which no one else, among many scholars, has. I know of no better reader of Apess's own writing." Lopenzina is also the author of Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period. His essays appear in the journals American Literature, American Quarterly, Studies in American Indian Literature, Native American and Indigenous Studies and others.

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Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is an alumna of Old Dominion University and Bennington College. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Among other journals, her work has been published in The Writer's Chronicle, New Letters, Callaloo and Essence. She is the author of Conversion (Lotus, 2006) winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013) shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017) winner of the Diode Editions Book Award. She is the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University and resides in Norfolk with her husband and children.

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