Terria Smith in conversation with Ursula Pike
The Literary Arts Bookstore & Cafe is pleased to welcome author Terria Smith to celebrate her new memoir, I Love You So Many. Smith will be joined in conversation with Ursula Pike.
About the book:
I Love You So Many begins with a question: do other California Indians travel? After spending decades working in journalism and publishing to uplift and tell about the lives of Native people, Terria Smith turns her ear for story toward her own life. If travel writing is so often bound up with the complications and histories of settler colonialism, how do Indigenous folks interact with it? Following her journey from the Torres Martinzes Desert Cahuilla reservation to journalism school and beyond, I Love You So Many takes readers across North America on a journey of self-discovery, kinship, and adventure.
Terria Smith
Terria Smith (she/her) is a tribal member of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians and a proud original Californian. She is the editor of News from Native California magazine and director of the Berkeley Roundhouse, Heyday’s California Indian publishing program. Smith is also the editor of the 2023 anthology Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance. She received her undergraduate degree at Cal Poly Humboldt (formerly Humboldt State University) and earned her master’s degree at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Ursula Pike
Ursula Pike is the author of An Indian Among Los Indígenas, and a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work won the 2019 Writers’ League of Texas Manuscript Contest in the memoir category, and her writing has appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, World Literature Today, and Ligeia Magazine. She has an MA in economics, with a focus on community economic development, and was a Peace Corps fellow at Western Illinois University. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia from 1994 to 1996. An enrolled member of the Karuk Tribe, she was born in California and grew up in Daly City, California, and Portland, Oregon. She currently lives in Austin, Texas.
