Two Alaska Native authors will have their works featured at the 2023 National Book Festival as part of the Great Reads from Great Places program.
Lily H. Tuzroyluke’s “Sivulliq: Ancestor” was chosen as Alaska’s selection for adults while Michaela Goade’s “Berry Song” is the selected book for youths.
Since 2002, each state has had a book for kids or young adults featured as part of the Great Reads from Great Places program. In 2022, a second book for adults was added.
[The ancestry and activity that informed Alaska author Lily Tuzroyluke’s celebrated debut novel]
Tuzroyluke will be part of a video, soon to be viewable on the Library of Congress YouTube channel, that features other authors of the selected books for adults. Goade will be a featured presenter at the festival. She’s scheduled to join former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo for “A Poem Is a Pocket That Can Hold Your Dreams,” a discussion stemming from their book “Remember.”
This year’s festival will be held Aug. 12 in Washington, D.C.