Arts and Humanities Summit
Keynote Speaker
Sherman Alexie
2007   National Book Award for Young People's Literature

2007   Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award

2005   Pushcart Prize for poem "Avian Nights," published in Dangerous Astronomy

2001   PEN/Malamud Award from PEN/Faulkner Foundation

1998-2001   World Heavyweight Poetry Champion

1998   Smoke Signals: Sundance Film Festival Audience Award

BSC students will have read one of his novels for his visit under the Campus Read Program.


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