Eric Gansworth, S˚ha-weñ na-saeɂ (Onondaga), writer and visual artist, was raised at the Tuscarora Nation. He is a professor and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College. In 2016, he was NEH Distinguished Visiting Professor at Colgate University and was one of fifteen writers chosen for LIT CITY, a public arts project celebrating Buffalo’s literary legacy. His books include If I Ever Get Out of Here (YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults), Extra Indians (American Book Award), Mending Skins (PEN Oakland Award), and A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function (NBCC Good Reads List). His most recent book is Give Me Some Truth.
Mar/Apr 2019
An Excerpt from “Secret Identity”
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. I didn’t finish elementary school the way I was supposed to. I missed the party, cupcakes, and Hawaiian Punch cut with 7UP in […]
Fiction
Mar/Apr 2019
Secret Identity
I didn’t finish elementary school the way I was supposed to. I missed the party, cupcakes, and Hawaiian Punch cut with 7UP in Dixie cups. Our desks were covered in […]
Poetry
Winter 2010
Engagement
And so, I didn’t know what their problem was; it’s not like he wasn’t going to find out how we lived or didn’t already have a pretty damned good idea, […]
Fiction
Winter 2010
Trick or Treat
So, it’s my nephew’s sixteenth birthday. He’ll be driving soon. Maybe as soon as tomorrow, Halloween. On the reservation, you stop trick or treating only at the age you feel […]
Poetry
Winter 2010
Summons
She broke the laws and evidence of nature, physics, time, anything that would cost her more than she could acknowledge, believing these things would not fall to rot and waste, […]
Fiction
Autumn 2006
True Crime
After my ma’s boyfriend Gih-rhaggs died, I got farmed out to anyone on the reservation who could and would take me. My ma still needed to bring in whatever bucks […]
Eric Gansworth
Eric Gansworth, S˚ha-weñ na-saeɂ (Onondaga), writer and visual artist, was raised at the Tuscarora Nation. He is a professor and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College. In 2016, he was NEH […]