3 WAY MIRROR is about a lost identity as experienced by a twenty-eight-year old who thinks he's Charles Randall, until strange events suggest otherwise.
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
I am a fourth-generation Oklahoman of Creek descent, and a former newspaper reporter.
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The Civil War in Indian Territory was deadly, but virtually unknown. I wanted to explore why all the Five Civilized Tribes went over to the Confederacy, what it was like to fight in this forgotten corner of the war, and what the war was like from the perspective of an Indian. In a semi-autobiographical bent, I also wanted to explore the alienation of a mixed-blood who feels Indian among whites and white among Indians.