Greg Sarris in Conversation with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
May 24, 2022 | 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Kepler’s literary foundation presents a riveting conversation between authors Greg Sarris and Ingrid Rojas Contreras.
Serving his fifteenth consecutive term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, Greg Sarris has authored six books including his recently released and critically-acclaimed memoir Becoming Story. Moving between his childhood and the present day, the memoir meditates on personal and collective traumas to investigate what it means to belong to the place where you live. With warmth, humor, and profound insight he asks what it means to dedicate your life to making that connection stronger, and his questing in Becoming Story, kaleidoscopic in nature, demonstrates the transformational power of storytelling and the extent to which it is needed at this critical juncture in our nation’s timeline.
Sarris will speak with Rojas Contreras, about her forthcoming memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds.
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Greg Sarris
Greg Sarris is an enrolled member of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and is currently serving his seventeenth consecutive elected term as chairman of the tribe. He is the author of several books, including the novel Grand Avenue, which he adapted for an HBO miniseries and co-executive produced with Robert Redford; the novel Watermelon Nights; Weaving the Dream, a biography of Mabel McKay; Becoming Story, a memoir; and the story collections How a Mountain Was Made and The Forgetters. Formerly a full professor of English at UCLA, Sarris serves on the University of California Board of Regents and the Sundance Institute Board, and he holds the Distinguished Emeritus Graton Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Sonoma State University. He lives in Sonoma County, California. (Photo by Beowulf Sheehan)
