Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) | February 8, 2025 | 6:00 pm (MST)
In-person and livestreamed
The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the RaceB4Race Executive Board and Scott Manning Stevens, invites you to an evening with Tommy Orange. This is the keynote event for Indigeneity: A RaceB4Race Symposium.
Tommy Orange is the author of the bestsellingThere There, a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever seen: the lives of urban Native Americans. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, There There shows us violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. His newest work, Wandering Stars, conjures the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There, asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. Orange talks about his craft, the writing process, and Native American history and culture, often in dynamic and frank in-conversation programs.
Tommy Orange is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow, as well as a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, and was born and raised in Oakland, California. He now lives in Angels Camp, California, with his wife and son.
Livestream information
This event will be livestreamed by ASU Live. The recording will be available to watch on the ACMRS YouTube channel afterwards.
