One Book Billings Author Talk: Susan Devan Harness

Susan Devan Harness is the author of Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption and a High Plains Book Award winner in the categories of Indigenous Writer and Creative Nonfiction. The book is a sweeping examination of her life that explores the uneasy intersection of race, history and the brutal government American Indian policies that affect the lives of her and her families. 

A member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Susan's interest in transracial adoption in general, and American Indian transracial adoption specifically, extends well beyond the academic.  She has recently appeared on the TEDxMileHigh stage (Adopting a Child of a Different Race?  Let’s Talk…), and interviewed by Ryan Warner of Colorado Public Radio, Corine Lesnes of Le Monde, Isaac Himmelman of HuffPost, and Rose Aguilar of KALW- San Francisco, as well as many others.  

Source: https://susanharness.com/about/ 

The One Book Billings program is sponsored by a grant from Bernard Rose through the Billings Public Library Foundation. Discussion groups come together five times a year (every other month from September to May), each discussing the same book.