The A.E. Stringer Visiting Writer Series proudly presents Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle March 26, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. in the Drinko Library Atrium, located on the library's third floor. The event is free and open to the public, with sponsorship from the Department of English and the College of Liberal Arts.

Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle is an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and resides in Qualla, N.C. She holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. She is author of Even As We Breathe, a finalist for the Weatherford Award, named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020. In 2021, and recipient of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award.
Her first novel manuscript, Going to Water, is winner of the Morning Star Award for Creative Writing from the Native American Literature Symposium (2012) and a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (2014).

Clapsaddle established Bird Words, LLC in 2022 and works as an independent contractor and consultant. She also helped launch Confluence: An Indigenous Writers’ Workshop Series, which seeks to bring indigenous writers to the Qualla Boundary (Cherokee, NC) to work with aspiring writers.