Author Talk with Manny Loley, Diné poet and novelist

Join the library for an afternoon of storytelling and writing with Manny Loley, Diné writer and literary scholar. At 1:00pm, Manny will read from his poetry and discuss the work of putting our lives and experiences into words. After this open and public reading, Manny will lead a writing workshop to guide writers of all kinds in an exploration of their own storytelling. While the author talk is open to all, we request registration to the workshop.

Manny Loley is ‘Áshįįhi born for Tó Baazhní’ázhí; his maternal grandparents are the Tódích’íi’nii and his paternal grandparents are the Kinyaa’áanii. Loley holds a Ph.D. in English and literary arts from the University of Denver, and an M.F.A. in fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Loley is an inaugural In-Na-Po Fellow, and a member of Saad Bee Hózhǫ́: Diné Writers’ Collective. Since 2018, he has served as director of the Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute. He currently holds a Mellon Impact Postdoctoral Fellow ship in Native American Studies and serves as a lecturer at the University of Oklahoma. His work has found homes in Poetry Magazine, Pleaides Magazine, the Massachusetts Review, the Santa Fe Literary Review, Broadsided Press, the Yellow Medicine Review, and the Diné Reader: an Anthology of Navajo Literature, among others. His writing has been thrice nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Loley is at work on a novel titled They Collect Rain in Their Palms. He is from Tsétah Tó Ák’olí in New Mexico.