Dynamic Chickasaw Women

Phillip Carroll Morgan (Choctaw/Chickasaw) is an award-winning author of several Chickasaw Press and White Dog Press titles, including Chickasaw Renaissance, Riding Out the Storm: 19th Century Chickasaw Governors and Their Intellectual Legacy, which won the Gold Independent Publishers Book Award in 2014, and the Anompolichi series of books. He is also the co-author of Dynamic Chickasaw Women which won the Gold Independent Publishers Book Award in 2012. Poetry by Morgan appears in The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store, which won the
Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award for Poetry in 2002. He also co-authored Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective, a conversation between leading experts in Native American literature. He holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in Native American literature from the University of Oklahoma. Dynamic Chickasaw Women won the Independent Publishers Book Awards’ Gold Medal for Mid-West Regional Non-Fiction in 2012, and Riding Out the Storm won the Gold Medal in that category in 2014. Poetry by Morgan appears in The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store, which won the Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award for Poetry in 2002. He also co-authored Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective, a conversation between leading experts in Native American literature. He holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in Native American literature from the University of Oklahoma.

Judy Goforth Parker is commissioner of health policy for the
Chickasaw Nation Division of Health. She has a doctorate in nursing from Texas
Women’s University, and completed her nurse practitioner degree at the
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She served as a Chickasaw Nation legislator for four terms, from 1994-2009. She is the co-author of Dynamic
Chickasaw Women.