Machine Shop
300 Second Street Southeast
Minneapolis, MN 55414
United States
Reserve tickets here. Please contact Madi McLaughlin, madi_mclaughlin@milkweed.org, (612) 215-2559, with questions.
Experience the power of life-changing literature with Montana Poet Laureate and Métis storyteller Chris La Tray, author of the forthcoming memoir Becoming Little Shell. Enjoy dinner, drinks, a live auction, and more, while celebrating and supporting transformative books.
Funds raised from the Book Lovers Ball support Milkweed’s mission to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.
Chris La Tray
Chris La Tray is a Métis storyteller, a descendent of the Pembina Band of the mighty Red River of the North, and an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. La Tray is the Montana Poet Laureate for 2023–2025 and a former bookseller at Fact & Fiction. He writes the weekly newsletter “An Irritable Métis” and lives near Frenchtown, Montana.
Nonfiction
A Landless Indian’s Journey Home
Available now!
From Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray, a singular story of discovery and embrace of Indigenous identity.