In this week’s episode, Kendra talks with Elissa Washuta the author of White Magic, which out now from Tin House

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Books Mentioned

• White Magic by Elissa Washuta

Elissa Recommends

• Other Worlds Here: Honoring Native Women’s Writing in Contemporary Anarchist Movements by Theresa Warburton
• The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Author Bio

Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a nonfiction writer. She is the author of White Magic, My Body Is a Book of Rules, and Starvation Mode. With Theresa Warburton, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She’s a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient, a Creative Capital awardee, and an assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University.

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