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MFA Programs in Writing present readings by David Treuer and Rick Barot.
All are welcome to join!
Light refreshments and book sale
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Humanities Gateway 1030 @ 5:30 PM
New York Times bestselling author and editor David Treuer is Ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, three Minnesota Book Awards, and fellowships from the NEH, Bush Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and was a Fellow at the American Academy Berlin.
His most recent book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, was a New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award Finalist, a Minnesota Book Prize winner, a California Book Prize winner, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Harper's. He is a contributing writer for Atlantic Monthly Magazine and is an editor-at-large for Pantheon Books. He divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Los Angeles, where he is a professor of English at USC.
Rick Barot's most recent book of poems is Moving the Bones, published by Milkweed Editions. His previous collection, The Galleons, was longlisted for the National Book Award. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Stanford University. He lives in Tacoma, Washington and directs The Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University.