A New Dakota Address

The College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is pleased to announce that Larry Woiwode will deliver the 2004-05 Regional Studies Lecture, one of three public lectures in the College's Lyceum of the Liberal Arts lecture series. 

Larry Woiwode,
Poet Laureate of North Dakota

The Regional Studies Lecture invites writers and scholars with strong connections to North Dakota and the Plains to share their views and insights on Plains culture.

Biographical Sketch

Larry Woiwode's fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Harpers, Paris Review, Partisan Review, and a variety of other publications, including two dozen stories in The New Yorker.  His fiction has been translated into a dozen languages and his stories collected in four volumes of Best American Short Stories. His nonfiction has appeared in Art & Antiques, Books & Culture, The Chicago Tribune Book World, Esquire, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The World & I, and other venues.

His books include What I'm Going To Do, I Think, Beyond the Bedroom Wall (finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics' Circle Award; Association of American Publishers Distinguished Book of Five Years for presentation to the White House Library), Indian Affairs, Silent Passengers, and the memoir What I Think I Did, his sixth book to be listed as a "notable book of the year" by the New York Times Book Review.

In 1995 he received the Award of Merit Medal from the American Academy of Arts & Letters in New York, presented once every six years, for "distinction in the art of the short story."  He has received the Aga Khan Prize, the William Faulkner Foundation Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, a Lannan Foundation Artist's Residency, among others, and in 1995, by a joint resolution of the state house and legislature, he was named Poet Laureate of North Dakota.

He has lived in southwestern North Dakota for twenty-five years, where, with his wife and family, he raises registered quarter-horses. He is presently a Visiting Professor in English at The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

• Larry Woiwode has published two articles in the NDSU Magazine, "Letter From an Imaginary Friend: An Homage to Tom McGrath," and "A Letter from Western North Dakota."
• Driving and parking directions for Beckwith Auditorium, Festival Concert Hall.
• The Regional Studies Lecture is one of three lectures in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences "Lyceum of the Liberal Arts" lecture series. Other lectures include the Women's Studies Lecture (Winona LaDuke, Oct. 29th, 2004), and the Communications Lecture (spring 2005, speaker TBA).
• The 2003-04 Regional Studies Lecture was delivered by Debra Marquart. Previous speakers include Larry Watson (2002-03), Brenda Daly (2001-02), and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (2000-01).