An interview with Dr. Rain Prudhomme-Cranford

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Rain and I have a discussion with tons of laughter, about her role in my wedding, which was a gift and a honor, and the intersection of the Creole and Native cultures. She gives two definitions of Creole and what that looks like on the academia side and as a Creole. Rain also talks about That Painted Horse Press that highlights and publish authors of Creole and Louisiana authors.

That Painted Horse Press can be found on Facebook at That Painted Horse Press or their website. Interested in publishing? You can contact Rain directly at thatpaintedhorsepress@gmail.com.

About Rain

Rain Prud’homme-Cranford (Rain C Goméz), PhD: is a FATtastically queer IndigeNerd poet, artist, and academic who reads too much and drinks too much black tea. She is an Assistant Professor English and Affiliated Faculty, International Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Student Access Program at University of Calgary. Rain works/publishes within Indigenous, Creole, and Afro-Indigenous Studies, Gender, 2SQ, & Sexuality, Ecocriticism, STEM, and Fat studies.

Her books include Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory (MEP 2012, as Rain C. Goméz, First Book Award Poetry, Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas), Miscegenation Roundance: Poèmes Historiques (winter 2020 Mongrel Empire Press), and the co-edited collections Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Tracing Post-Contact Afro-Indigeneity and Community(University of Washington, 2021) and Indians, Oil, & Water: Indigenous Ecologies and Literary Resistance (TPHP 2021). Her monograph Gumbo Stories: Rhetorics and Quantum Relation-Making in the Trans-Indigenous South is under contract and she has begun her next monograph project: Gather at the River: Spiritual Ecologies in Red/Black Literatures. Works in progress includes the creative/theory work “I oughta know about lonely girls:” Essays on Body, Love, & Place, and a third poetry collection entitled Epidermal Journal: the FAT poems.

Rain is the Executive Editor and Publisher of That Painted Horse Press, a borderless Indigenous/BIPOC non-profit publishing house.

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