WSU’s Visiting Writers Series — Beth Piatote

About the event

Beth Piatote is a Nez Perce writer, scholar, and Indigenous language activist. She is the author of two books, including the mixed-genre collection, The Beadworkers: Stories (Counterpoint 2019), which was long listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction; and shortlisted for the California Independent Booksellers Association “Golden Poppy” Award for fiction; as well as numerous stories, essays, and poems in literary and scholarly journals. She is an associate professor of Comparative Literature and Native American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and chair of the Designated Emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization. She is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and works in her heritage language of Nez Perce.

Common Reading credit available.