New York Heavyweight Bout
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Sherman Alexie is the author of ten books of poetry and fiction. His first book, The Business of Fancydancing, was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He wrote a script adapted from one of the short stories in his book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, which was made into the film Smoke Signals. He has won a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award and an American Book Award.

Patricia Smith is an award-winning journalist, poet, playwright and performer. She has read her work throughout the United States, Europe and Brazil and is a four-time champion of the National Poetry Slam. She is a former Boston Globe columnist and the author of Close to Death.