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From Oklahoma to California, the heroes of A Calm & Normal Heart are modern-day homesteaders, adventurers, investigators—seeking out new places to call their own inside a Nation to which they do not entirely belong. A member of the Osage tribe, author Chelsea T. Hicks’ stories are compelled by an overlooked diaspora inside America: that of young Native people. More about this book >
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Louise Erdrich >
Chelsea T. Hicks has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, The Believer, The Audacity, Yellow Medicine Review, Indian Country Today, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MA from the University of California, Davis. Her debut A Calm and Normal Heart was most recently longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. She is an enrolled member of the Osage Nation, and lives on ancestral land in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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