B R U N A presented the fifth event in the MUTTER COURAGE program, an occasional reading series + conversation space curated by YANARA Friedland.

Mutter Courage #5 welcomed STEVEN Dunn, author of Potted Meat (2016) and water & power (2018), both published by Tarpaulin Sky Press.

ABOUT STEVEN DUNN

Shortlisted for Granta magazine’s “Best of Young American Novelists,” STEVEN Dunn is the author of two novels from Tarpaulin Sky Press: water & power (2018) and Potted Meat, which was a finalist for a Colorado Book Award. STEVEN was born and raised in West Virginia, and after 10 years in the Navy he earned a B.A. in Creative Writing from University of Denver. He is currently an MFA candidate at Goddard College.

ABOUT MUTTER COURAGE

MUTTER COURAGE is an occasional reading series and conversation space curated by YANARA Friedland, which invites writers at the corner of poetic, embodied, and intersectional practices to share their work with the B R U N A community. MUTTER COURAGE refers to the name of the main character in Berthold Brecht’s eponymous play. A relentless maker in a war-torn world, MUTTER COURAGE inspires this series, which unfolds in expressions of courage in voice.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We acknowledge that the activities of B R U N A take place on the sacred and ancestral home of the Lummi and Nooksack peoples. We are grateful for their loving stewardship of the land and its inhabitants, and intend to be good guests and neighbors as we recognize their sovereignty and rich cultural practice + heritage. We set this intention first by making acknowledgments and then by practicing reciprocity. We are grateful to be able to share this space (both physically and culturally) with indigenous communities from here and elsewhere.

B R U N A is made possible with support from the Whatcom Human Rights Task Force.