Ursula Pike at City Lights: In Conversation with Sara Calvosa Olson

Ursula Pike discusses her book, An Indian Among los Indígenas, new in paperback published by Heyday, with Sara Calvosa Olson in a virtual event hosted by City Lights Bookstore.

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Ursula Pike is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work won the 2019 Writers’ League of Texas Manuscript Contest in the memoir category, and her writing has appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, World Literature Today, and Ligeia Magazine. She has an MA in economics, with a focus on community economic development, and was a Peace Corps fellow at Western Illinois University. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia from 1994 to 1996. An enrolled member of the Karuk Tribe, she was born in California and grew up in Daly City, California, and Portland, Oregon. She currently lives in Austin, Texas.

Sara Calvosa Olson is an indigenous Californian, editor, writer, storyteller, community development expert, and the author of the book: Chími Nu’am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen. She is a Karuk asiktávaan (woman) and táat (mother) of two teenage sons. She grew up in Salyer & Hoopa in Northern California, and is living in Marin with her husband (who is also from Hoopa.)