Join the American Indian Studies Program for a celebration of Amber Blaeser-Wardzala’s debut novel, Another Name for Red. We will be joined by Eliana Ramage, author of To the Moon and Back, for an evening of readings and conversation.
All are welcome to help us welcome Amber Blaeser-Wardzala back home to OSU after the completion of her multi-state book tour for the novel the Chicago Review of Books describes as “electric. . . . Packed with mystery, tension, and the unbearable weight of the long history of missing and murdered Indigenous women.”
Co-sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing, the Center for Ethnic Studies, the Department of English and the Humanities Institute. Refreshments will be served.
This event is free, open to the public and welcoming to everyone.
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About the authors
Amber Blaeser-Wardzala is an Anishinaabe writer, beadwork artist and jingle dress dancer. She is a first-degree descendant of White Earth Nation in Minnesota and grew up in southeastern Wisconsin. She received her MFA from Arizona State University and was the 2024-25 George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy. Her writing has appeared in Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, The Iowa Review, Joyland, Passages North, CRAFT and others. She has received support from Storyknife Writers Retreat, Vermont Studio Center, the Hambidge Center, Ragdale Foundation, Write On Door County, the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands, the Virginia G. Piper Center and the Women’s National Book Association. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Fiction at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio where she lives with her overactive dog, Fern. Her debut novel (Another Name for Red) and her short story collection (Deer Women) are forthcoming from Pantheon Books.
Eliana Ramage is the author of To the Moon and Back, a Reese’s Book Club pick. She holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has received support from Lambda Literary, Vermont Studio Center, Tin House and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she lives in Nashville with her family.
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