Mona Susan Power

Longlist, 2023 National Book Awards

Mona Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She is the author of three previously published works of fiction, The Grass Dancer, Sacred Wilderness, and Roofwalker.
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A Council of Dolls

ISBN 9780063281097 Mariner Books / HarperCollins Publishers

From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they carried.... More about this book >

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Mona Susan Power

Mona Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She is the author of three previously published works of fiction, The Grass Dancer, Sacred Wilderness, and Roofwalker. Her short stories have been published by The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories, and more. Power is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives and teaches in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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