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Announced on: Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025
7:30pm Thursday, September 25th Free & open to the public. The Writer's Voice is California State University, Chico's literary arts reading series. Funded by contributions from the Department of English and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Writer's Voice introduces contemporary writers to citizens of the North Valley. For more information contact Dr. Rob Davidson, Professor of English, rgdavidson@csuchico.edu
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Ibe Liebenberg is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He lives in Paradise, California and works as a firefighter and a lecturer at Chico State University. He is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in both poetry and fiction. His debut poetry collection, Birds at Night (Texas Tech UP, 2025), won the Sowell Emerging Writers Prize. He has been published in POETRY Magazine, The Threepenny Review, Ecotone, North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Sugar House Review, American Journal of Poetry, and Salamander Magazine. Liebenberg's honors include ranking as finalist for the James Welch Poetry contest, Winner of the Tribal College Journals Creative writing contest in both fiction and poetry, and Winner of 2024 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize.
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