Join us at the High Desert Museum for a reading and discussion featuring nationally acclaimed Native American scholar and author Beth Piatote and MFA faculty author Raquel Gutiérrez. Hear them read from their latest works and talk about issues facing writers of color whose storytelling is shaped by landscapes in the American West.

Beth Piatote is a writer and scholar of Native American and Indigenous literature and law. She writes fiction, poetry, plays and essays, and is the author of “Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature,” and “The Beadworkers: Stories,” which was longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, both in 2020.  She is Nez Perce and an enrolled member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, and is a professor of Native American Studies at University of California, Berkeley.

Gutiérrez’s latest book, “Brown Neon” has been lauded in national media since its release earlier this year Gutiérrez uses poetry, non-fiction and critical writing to explore their perspective as a queer and brown writer. Their work encompasses migration from Mexico and Central America, desire and colonization, and the U.S. Southwest. They are a 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism.

Reception to follow.