The American Indian Library Association (AILA) selected Eric Gansworth’s book Apple: Skin to the Core for its 2022 Youth Literature Award in the young adult category. Conferred biennially, the award identifies and honors the very best writing and illustrations by Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of North America whose works present Indigenous North American peoples in the fullness of their humanity.
Gansworth is a professor of English and creative writing at Canisius. Apple reflects on his life growing up in an Onondaga family but living among the Tuscaroras and Native people in the U.S.
H. Jeanette Willert, PhD, delves into the human condition in her latest book of poetry, it was never Eden. Home and family, loss and tragedy, memory, nostalgia and reflection are all elements of this carefully crafted collection, which is Willert’s second. She previously published Appalachia Amour, a 2017 recipient of the Morris Memorial Chapbook Award.
An emerita professor of teacher education, Willert is the former director of the Western New York Writing Project, which is an affiliate of the National Writing Project.
