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Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw Indian poet, novelist and essayist.  Mean Spirits won the Oklahoma Book Award and was a finalist for a Publitzer Prize. Seeing Through The Sun received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Hogan has been the receipient of an NEA grant, a Minnesota Arts Board Grant, a Lannan Award, a Colorado Writer's Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a professor at the University of Colorado. Some of her published titles include:

 

People of the Whale (Norton 2008)

 

Mean Spirits (Atheneum)

 

The Book of Medicines

 

Dwellings (Norton)

 

Power (Norton)

 

 

 

Lauren R. Weinstein is a young cartoonist and performance artist  whose work appears on gURL.COM. She received a grant to publish vineland and LA Weekly asks: “is Lauren Weinstein the funniest voice in alternative comics?”

 

 Calamity (Holt 2008)
 

Girl Stories An illustrated semi-autobiographical novel, follows “Lauren’s” life from eighth grade to her senior year of high school. (Holt 2006)

 

Jana Kolpen and Mary Tiegreen

The Mysteries of the Villa Della Luna (Stewart Tabori & Chang 1997).       

 

The Secrets of Pistoulet (Stewart Tabori & Chang 1996) is an enchanted fable of food, magic, and love with sumptuous illustrations.

 

Victor Perera

 

Last Lords of Palenque (Little Brown 1983). 

 

Judging Time (Bantam 1997)

 

Loving Time (Bantam 1996)

 

Hanging Time (Bantam 1995)

 

Burning Time (Bantam 1994)

 

 

 

Jenny Fujita

*Work in Progress: The Hot Hibiscus, part of a series of mysteries set in Hawaii