Debra Magpie Earling Explained

Debra Magpie Earling
Birth Date:3 August 1957
Birth Place:Spokane, Washington
Alma Mater:University of Washington ; MA in English, MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University
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Awards:Spur Award for Best Novel of the West (2003)

Debra Cecille Magpie Earling (born August 3, 1957 in Spokane, Washington) is a Native American novelist, and short story writer.[1] She is a member of the Bitterroot Salish (tribe).[2] She is the author of Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajewea, which was on display at the Missoula Museum of Art in late 2011.[3] Her work has also appeared in Ploughshares, the Northeast Indian Quarterly, and many anthologies.

Education and career

At 18, Earling became the first public defender in the Tribal Justice System of the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana.[4] She is a graduate of the University of Washington, and holds both an MA in English (1991) and an MFA in Fiction Writing (1992) from Cornell University.[5] [6]

Earling is currently a faculty member in the English Department at the University of Montana at Missoula.[7] [8] In 2016, she became the first Native American director of the University of Montana's creative writing program.[9] She teaches Fiction and Native American Studies.

Works

Perma Red

Earling's first novel, Perma Red,[10] takes place on the Flathead Indian Reservation in the 1940s. Louise White Elk, a determined and beautiful young woman, dreams of escaping and belonging. She comes of age as she is pursued by three dangerous men who will do anything to possess her—police officer Charlie Kicking Woman, the charismatic Baptiste, and Harvey Stoner, who owns nearly everything around him.

This novel won a Spur Award and Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best first novel from the Western Writers Association, a WILLA Literary Award and the American Book Award.[11] Perma Red touches on the still prevalent crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women in Montana and throughout the West. A team of indigenous and women filmmakers are adapting Perma Red for TV.[12] “Native women need to tell their own stories. Now is the time for those stories to rise. Perma Red is only the beginning," Earling is stated as saying on the fundraising page for the adaptation.[13]

The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

This work first began as a project during the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition and is the result of a five year collaboration between Debra Magpie Earling and artist Peter Koch.[14] [15] The writings are done by Earling, as Koch compiled the historical photographs. The writings, along with the photographs, hope to illustrate native women’s longstanding struggle and desire for freedom through Sacajewea.[16]

Anthologies

Awards

Reviews

Debra Magpie Earling's debut novel Perma Red was well reviewed in January Magazine.[20]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Kay Juricek. Kelly J. Morgan. Contemporary Native American Authors: A Biographical Dictionary. registration. 1997. Fulcrum Pub.. 978-1-55591-917-7.
  2. Web site: Debra Magpie Earling. Native American Authors. 2014-11-03.
  3. Web site: Koch. Peter Rutledge. Peter Rutledge Koch. The Lost Journals of Sacajawea: Debra Magpie Earling with Photo-Interventions. live. Missoula Art Museum. 2014-11-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20130903061525/http://www.missoulaartmuseum.org:80/files/documents/pressReleases/Lost_Journals.pdf . 2013-09-03 .
  4. Web site: Debra Magpie Earling. Voices from the Gaps. 2009. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160427034932/http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/166159/Earling,%20Debra%20Magpie.pdf?sequence=1 . 2016-04-27 .
  5. Web site: Debra Earling. Cornell Writers. 2014-11-03.
  6. Web site: Earling, Debra Magpie 1957- Encyclopedia.com. www.encyclopedia.com. 2020-03-02.
  7. Web site: Debra Magpie Earling . The University of Montana Creative Writing Program . 2014-11-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120228213425/http://www.cas.umt.edu/english/creative_writing/faculty/earling.html . February 28, 2012 .
  8. Web site: Debra Earling . The University of Montana - Department of English - People - Faculty . 2014-11-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101109032115/http://www.cas.umt.edu/english/people/facultydetails.cfm?id=561. dead. 2010-11-09.
  9. Web site: Debra Magpie Earling honored as new head of UM creative writing. Szpaller. Keila. missoulian.com. 21 September 2016 . en. 2019-03-04.
  10. Haladay. Jane. 2006. "It Just Seemed to Call to Me": Debra Magpie Earling's Self-Telling in Perma Red. American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 30. 1. 53–65. 10.17953/aicr.30.1.53010624p0qx1l75. 0161-6463.
  11. Web site: An Evening with Debra Magpie Earling. Books. Elk River. 27 February 2018 . en-US. 2019-03-04.
  12. Web site: Native, women filmmakers raising funds to adapt novel 'Perma Red' on indigenous women. Walsh. Cory. missoulian.com. 9 September 2018 . en. 2019-03-04.
  13. Web site: Perma Red: A TV Series Led by Indigenous People. Indiegogo. en. 2019-03-04.
  14. Web site: The Lost Journals of Sacajewea. Booklyn. 2019-03-04. 2019-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20190306045508/http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/1153. dead.
  15. Web site: Peter Koch Catalogue Printer. www.peterkochprinters.com. 2020-03-02.
  16. Web site: Dark Matter: Women Witnessing - Issue #3, December 2015. www.darkmatterwomenwitnessing.com. en. 2019-03-04.
  17. Web site: UM News. news.umt.edu. en. 2019-03-04.
  18. Web site: Debra Magpie Earling. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20141104024853/http://www.gf.org/fellows/3959-debra-magpie-earling. 2014-11-04. dead. 2014-11-04.
  19. Web site: Debra Earling. NEA. 2014-11-04. 2014-11-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20141104083634/http://arts.gov/writers-corner/bio/debra-earling?id=06_42. dead.
  20. Review | Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling . Stepping Forward . January Magazine . David Abrams . 2015-01-05.

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