Debra Magpie Earling is the author of the novels Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajewea. She is the recipient of the Montana Governor’s Arts Award and has received both a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the American Book Award. Her novel Perma Red was recognized by The Atlantic as one of the Great American Novels. She is a citizen of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes.

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