Debra Magpie Earling

Debra Cecille Magpie Earling (born August 3, 1957 Spokane, Washington) is an Native American novelist, and short story writer.^[1]

Life

She is of the Bitterroot Salish (tribe).^[2]

She graduated from the University of Washington magna cum laude, and from Cornell University with a Masters in English, and Master of Fine Arts in 1992.^[3] She teaches at University of Montana.^[4][5]

Her work appeared in Ploughshares, Northeast Indian Quarterly.

Awards

• 2007 Guggenheim Fellow ^[6]
• 2003 American Book Award
• 2006 NEA grant ^[7]

Works

• Perma Red. BlueHen Books. 2002. ISBN 9780399148996. 

Anthologies

• William Kittredge, Annick Smith, ed (1991). The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology. University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295969749. 
• Craig Lesley, Katheryn Stavrakis, ed (1991). Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories. Delta. ISBN 9780385312721. 
• Kim Barnes, Mary Clearman Blew, ed (2001). Circle of Women: Anthology of Western Women Writers. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806133676. 
• Sue Thomas, ed (1994). Wild women: contemporary short stories by women celebrating women. Overlook Press. ISBN 9780879515140. 
• Caroline Patterson, ed (2006). "Bad Ways". Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart. Farcountry Press. ISBN 9781560374053. http://books.google.com/books?id=P3IVCpEnQdwC&pg=PA196&lpg=PA196&dq=Debra+Magpie+Earling&source=bl&ots=-2PqCVk-mw&sig=mCSAx_lxHRJjrHVPPiQdMxdUzw8&hl=en&ei=0d0SS8jwE4WANvGrwDM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CA8Q6AEwATge#v=onepage&q=Debra%20Magpie%20Earling&f=false. 
• Allen Morris Jones, William Kittredge, ed (2004). "Real Indians". The Best of Montana's Short Fiction. Globe Pequot. ISBN 9781592282692. http://books.google.com/books?id=YM-LXI9dV3sC&pg=PA127&dq=Debra+Magpie+Earling&ei=O_MSS6z6LI-0NJ2ZvK8L#v=onepage&q=Debra%20Magpie%20Earling&f=false. 
• Alvin M. Josephy, ed (2007). "What We See". Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes. Random House, Inc.. ISBN 9781400077496. http://books.google.com/books?id=A5dij5BsgP4C&pg=PA26&dq=Debra+Magpie+Earling&ei=O_MSS6z6LI-0NJ2ZvK8L#v=onepage&q=Debra%20Magpie%20Earling&f=false. 

Reviews

Debra Magpie Earling's debut novel Perma Red is something of a miracle. The University of Montana creative writing professor began writing it in 1984 and, over the years, it has been through at least nine different rewrites, trimmed from an epic-length 800 pages to a compact 288, burned to a crisp in a house fire, and rejected by publishers who loved the writing but thought the original ending too dark and brutal. Through it all, Earling persevered and the novel stands as a testament to her faith and patience.^[8]

References

1. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=uO0UAQAAIAAJ&q=Debra+Magpie+Earling&dq=Debra+Magpie+Earling&ei=O_MSS6z6LI-0NJ2ZvK8L
2. ^ http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A625
3. ^ http://www.writers.cornell.edu/entirelist/
4. ^ http://www.cas.umt.edu/english/creative_writing/faculty/earling.html
5. ^ http://www.cas.umt.edu/english/faculty/earling.htm
6. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/3959-debra-magpie-earling
7. ^ http://www.nea.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=06_42
8. ^ "Stepping Forward", January Magazine, David Abrams

External links

• "Debra Magpie Earling", University of Minnesota

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