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Victor
will read from his first book, Put Sey
(Good Enough) published Fall, 2008 by Many Voices Press, Flathead Valley
Community College (FVCC), accompanied by his daughter, April, who will read
three poems from the book that she translated into Salish.

Victor is
the great-great grandson of Chief Victor Charlot of the Bitterroot Salish.
Through lineage, he is recognized as a spiritual leader. He is a published
poet, playwright and proud father of four children, and grandfather to four
beautiful grandchildren. He lives in Dixon,
Montana. He is also featured in Poems across the Big Sky, an anthology
of Montana
poets. Victor has a collection of his poetry forthcoming from Drumlummon Institute, Helena,
MT. April is a native Salish speaker
and educator who lives with her father on the Flathead Reservation in Dixon, MT.

Zan will
read from her first book, Stamen and
Whirlwind published by Gribble Press
in Fall, 2008. Zan is an arts
organizer who has received several grants over time for fiction, plays, and
poetry. She received her Masters in Fiction from EWU’s Creative Writing
Department in 1997. She lives in Spokane, Washington and works at the Better
Business Bureau Serving Eastern
Washington, North Idaho & Montana as their Communications Director and
Lead Fraud Investigator. Her web site is: www.zanagzigian.com

Vic and
Zan have spent the past 15 years in collaboration co-writing contemporary
Native American plays under the auspices of the Open to All Possibilities
Players All Native Acting Troupe of NW Montana, which was founded by them in
1990. Together, Vic and Zan have co-written, directed and produced three plays:
Trickster at Dirty Corner, Moon over Mission Dam & The Beta Cycle: Bitterroot, Berkeley,
Belfast and
Beta, with a fourth and fifth recently completed, each called The July: The Whiskey Experience and L.A. Christmas Tree.