Tanaya Winder is an author, singer/songwriter, and motivational speaker who comes from an intertribal lineage of Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, and Duckwater Shoshone Nations, where she is an enrolled citizen. Winder’s poetry collections include Words Like Love and Why Storms are Named After People and Bullets Remain Nameless. Her specialties include youth and women’s empowerment, healing trauma through art, creative writing workshops, and mental wellness advocacy.

Featured title: Words Like Love 

Website: https://tanayawinder.com

TANAYA’S EVENTS:

• Saturday, Sept. 23 @ 9:00 a.m. – Words as Seeds: Storytelling for Life – St. John’s Episcopal Church, Sanctuary
• Saturday, Sept. 23 @ 12:45 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Lodge, Bullock & Roosevelt Rooms
• Saturday, Sept. 23 @ 2:00 p.m. – Writing about Missing & Murdered Indigenous Persons – Holiday Inn Express, Mystic & Savoy Rooms
• Saturday, Sept. 23 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Lodge, Bullock & Roosevelt Rooms

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