Author Deborah Miranda: Reading, Book Signing and Reception

Deborah Miranda, who is John Lucian Smith Term Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, is author of "Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir", along with three poetry collections. Her scholarship on California missions, native women's erotics, and two-sprit issues has been widely published. Miranda is a member of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation and has Chumash lineage. Miranda's visit is sponsored by the Roanoke College English Department and Visiting Writers.