Author Event: Dennis Staples - Passing Through Prairie Country
March 25, 2026 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Dennis E. Staples is an Ojibwe writer from Bemidji, Minnesota, and the author of This Town Sleeps. He holds an MFA in fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is a graduate of the 2018 Clarion West Writers Workshop and a recipient of the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship. His work has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction and Nightmare magazine. He is a member of the Red Lake Nation.
A darkly humorous thriller about the ghosts that haunt the temples of excess we call casinos, and the people caught in their high-stakes, low-odds web.
For decades, a dark force has terrorized the Languille Lake reservation. Spoken of only in whispers as “the sandman,” he lurks in the Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort and Casino, the reservation’s main attraction and source of revenue, leeching its patrons’ dreams and preventing the ghosts that linger there from moving on.
Author Event: Dennis Staples - Passing Through Prairie Country
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Author Event: Dennis Staples - Passing Through Prairie Country420 Summit Ave
Saint Paul, MN 55102
