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Department of American Indian Studies
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372

Phone: 910.521.6266
Fax: 910.521.6606
Email: ais@uncp.edu

Location: Old Main, Room 231
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native american speaker series

MariJo Moore
November 19, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Livermore Library

MariJo Moore, of Cherokee, Irish and Dutch ancestry, is an author/artist/poet/essayist/
lecturer/editor/anthologist/publisher and creative writing workshop facilitator. She attended Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Lancashire Polytechnic in Preston, England, where she received a BA in Literature.  She has published extensively in a variety of genres including poetry, fiction, non-fiction essays, and she has edited several collections.  Her published works include: Crow Quotes; Confessions of a Madwoman (also on CD); a novel, The Diamond Doorknob (rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING); Feeding the Ancient Fires: A Collection of Writings by North Carolina American Indians; The Ice Man, The First Fire, The Cherokee Little People, (children's books); Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust; and Birthed From Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War.

Recently, Ms. Moore was nominated as North Carolina Poet Laureate. Ms. Moore was chosen as Minority Business Person in Services for the Year, Western NC, in 2007, was selected as Wordcrafter of the Year in 2003-2004 and 2005-06 by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers.  The June/July issue of Native Peoples/Indian Artists magazine honored Ms. Moore as one of the top five American Indian writers of the new century in 2000.  In addition, Ms. Moore has served on the New York State Council on the Arts Literature panel, the North Carolina Humanities Council, National Caucus of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, the board of the North Carolina Writers' Network, and the Speakers' Bureau for the North Carolina Humanities Council.

Ms. Moore resides in the mountains of western North Carolina, where she writes editorials on Indigenous issues for various publications, and was a past Poetry Editor for Rapid River Arts and Literature Journal, an Asheville based publication. Her commentaries on Native issues have aired on NPR and WBAI 99.5, First Voices /Indigenous Radio in NYC.  She is founder of rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING, which was chosen as Publisher of the Year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers in 2001. Currently, she is working on an anthology of Indigenous authors dedicated to Vine Deloria Jr, which is entitled Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts Concerning the Universe, and a new book of short stories, titled The Boy With Tree Growing From His Ear and Other Stories.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies and the Office of Academic Affairs. It is free and open to the public.  Ms. Moore’s books will be available for purchase and for her to sign at the event. For more information, contact Dr. Jane Haladay at haladayj@uncp.edu.

Updated: Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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