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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.