Living on the Borderlines: Stories - Michal, Melissa
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* Despite the success of authors like Sherman Alexie and Louise Erdrich, Native American authors are incredibly underrepresented in the literary landscape. Living on the Borderlines specifically chronicles stories from a contemporary Haudenosaunee community (which includes folks who identify as being of Mohawk, Seneca, and Haida descent) near Rochester, New York-a community that author Melissa Michal found rarely represented in the arts, and especially not in a present-day representation. * Michal's understated prose and familiar settings feature characters dealing with the harsh, mundane…mehr

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* Despite the success of authors like Sherman Alexie and Louise Erdrich, Native American authors are incredibly underrepresented in the literary landscape. Living on the Borderlines specifically chronicles stories from a contemporary Haudenosaunee community (which includes folks who identify as being of Mohawk, Seneca, and Haida descent) near Rochester, New York-a community that author Melissa Michal found rarely represented in the arts, and especially not in a present-day representation. * Michal's understated prose and familiar settings feature characters dealing with the harsh, mundane realities of working-class life in America. While there are moments of lyrical cultural memory, Michal's literary style sends a clear political message: these characters are real people, dealing with generations of disenfranchisement, and are adversely affected by economic downturn and financial insecurity. * While the stories deal mostly with members of the Seneca Nation, Michal does subtly delve into different tribal heritage by showcasing, for example, a Mohawk man who cannot reconcile national borders with tribal borders, and a Haida man who wants to pass down the tradition of carving to future generations
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Melissa Michal is of Seneca decent. She teaches creative writing and literature and loves helping students find that they too can write. She is a fiction writer, essayist, photographer, and a professor. She has her MFA from Chatham University, MA from The Pennsylvania State University, and her PhD in literature from Arizona State University where she focuses on education and representation of Indigenous histories and literatures in curriculum. She has been grateful to read at the National American Indian Museum in DC and Amerind Museum in Dragoon. Melissa has work appearing in The Florida Review, Yellow Medicine Review,and other places. She was a finalist for the Louise Meriwether first book prize.She has a novel completed and is working on her nonfiction essay collection.