Page 64 - 2020 Russell Catalogue

The Russell Educational Symposium
Robert Stubblefield, Panel Facilitator
Photo by William Albert Allard
Robert Stubblefield has published fiction and personal essays in Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West, Best Stories of the American West, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. Recent work appears in basalt, High Desert Journal, Southern Humanities Review, and most recently, The Whitefish Review. Awards include a Georges and Anne Borchardt scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Fishtrap Fellowship, and Imhaha Writers’ Retreat Fellowship. Robert grew up in eastern Oregon and now lives in Missoula, Montana and teaches at the University of Montana.
Poet Panelists
Sarah Aronson is a Montanan by way of Alaska. Her debut collection of poems, And Other Bodiless Powers, won the 2018 New American Poetry Prize. Her nonfiction can be found in Anglers Journal and the Montana anthology, We Leave the Flowers Where They Are. She is also the host of the Montana Public Radio literary program and podcast, The Write Question.
Tami Haaland is the author of three poetry collections, What Does Not Return, When We Wake in the Night, and Breath in Every Room, winner of the Nicholas Roerich First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies, including, Ascent, Consequence, The American Journal of Poetry, The Ecopoetry Anthology, and Healing the Divide. Her work has also been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, American Life in Poetry, and The Slowdown. Haaland served as Montana’s Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015 and has received a Governor’s Humanities Award, an Artist Innovation Award from Montana Arts Council, and writing residencies from Absoraka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She was one of many artists who collaborated with UK filmmaker Anna Cady on her Elemental Dialogue series which was shown at festivals and other venues in England and Scotland. Haaland is a professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Montana State University Billings.