Carole Lindstrom and Steph Littlebird

Sponsored by Abrams Books Publishing Co.

Carole Lindstrom is a New York Times–bestselling and award-winning author of literature for young people, including the Caldecott Medal-winning "We Are Water Protectors." She is Anishinaabe/Métis and an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. She is honored to write books that allow her to shine a light on her beautiful people and their strength and resilience. Her tribal homelands are in Belcourt, North Dakota, but she was born and raised in Nebraska and currently makes her home in Maryland.

Steph Littlebird is an Indigenous artist, writer, curator, and member of Oregon’s Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Her work combines traditional aesthetics with contemporary materials and subject matter to forge connections between our collective past and the imminent future. Littlebird was the 2020-2021 fellow of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Littlebird received national recognition as curator of This IS Kalapuyan Land (2020) an exhibition at the Five Oaks Museum in Portland, which was featured by ArtNews and PBS NewsHour. She currently lives in Las Vegas.

Lindstrom and Littlebird will discuss their new book, "My Powerful Hair," available March 2023, an empowering children's picture book about family history, self-expression, and reclaiming your identity.