Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Award-winning author Cynthia Leitich Smith recalls spending time both in Kansas City as well as tribal towns of Oklahoma.

Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee) writes for children and young adults. She also is the author-curator of Heartdrum, a Native-focused imprint at HarperCollins Children’s Books and serves as the Katherine Paterson Inaugural Endowed Chair on the faculty of the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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