Zone 3 Press and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts hosted Darcie Little Badger, a Lipan Apache writer, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 5, 2026 in Art + Design room 120 at Austin Peay State University. This event was free and open to the public, featuring a live reading of Badger’s work with a Q&A and book signing that followed the reading. Light refreshments were served.
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus award for Best First Novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received a Nebula Award, an Ignyte Award, and a Newbery Honor and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Her third book, Sheine Lende, is the prequel to Elatsoe and is a USA Today bestseller and American Indian Youth Literature Award and Lodestar winner. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran.
