Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories Audiobook

About the Authors

Cynthia Leitich Smith is the bestselling, acclaimed author of books for all ages, including Hearts Unbroken, which won the American Indian Youth Literature Award. She is also the anthologist of Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids. She has been honored with the American Library Association’s Children’s Literature Lecture Award and has been named the NSK Neustadt Laureate. She is the author-curator of Heartdrum, a Native-focused imprint at HarperCollins Children's Books, and served as the Katherine Paterson Endowed Chair on the faculty of the MFA degree program in writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation

Eric Gansworth is a professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. An enrolled member of the Onondaga Nation, he was born and raised at the Tuscarora Reservation in Niagara County in upstate New York. His short stories, poetry, and nonfiction have been printed and reprinted in many literary magazines and anthologies, and his dramatic work has appeared at the Public Theater in New York City.

Marcella Bell, the author of the Closed Circuit series and three novels in the Queen’s Guard series, writes romance that showcases love’s incredible power to transform.

Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar awards. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, won many awards and accolades, including the Nebula Award.

Andrea L. Rogers is an author whose collection of horror stories, Man Made Monsters, received six starred reviews and won the Walter Dean Myers Award for Young Adult fiction. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and graduated with an MFA degree from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.

Brian Young, author and filmmaker, is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. He grew up on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. He earned his BA degree in film studies at Yale University and his MFA in creative writing at Columbia University.

Jen Ferguson is Michif/Métis and white, an activist, an intersectional feminist, an auntie, and an accomplice armed with a PhD in English and creative writing. Visit her online at JenFergusonWrites.com.

Byron Graves, author of Rez Ball,  is Ojibwe and was born and raised on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota, where they played high school basketball. When not writing, Byron can be found playing retro video games, spending time with family, or cheering on their beloved Minnesota Timberwolves. 

Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former director of the Office of Indian Education at the US Department of Education. She lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island. Firekeeper's Daughter is her debut novel.

Jacques Roy is a audio narrator and actor, known for The Lower Angels and Room and Board.

About the Narrators

Tara Sands is an American actress, television host, and voice talent who has won numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards for narration. She is former cohost of Fridays on the Cartoon Network. In addition to performing in plays and musicals, her voice can be heard on numerous commercials, audiobooks, cartoons, and video games.

Delanna Studi is an actress whose roles have included DreamKeeper , Edge of America, and Shameless. she is Native American, born in Oklahoma, and is the niece of the multiaward–winning actor Wes Studi. She was elected chairwoman of the President’s National Task Force for American Indians of the Screen Actors Guild. In 2007, she performed her one-woman show entitled “What’s an Indian Woman to Do?” in Los Angeles to rave reviews from LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Times.

Shaun Taylor-Corbett is an actor, singer, and writer. A graduate of the University of Delaware, he has television and Broadway credits, including the role of Sonny on Broadway in In the Heights. He also has off-Broadway credits including In the Heights and Altar Boyz.

Darrell Dennis is a native Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter and radio personality from the Secwepemc Nation in the interior of British Columbia. In addition to acting and comedy, Darrell is a writer whose works have been published by Playwrights Canada Press and Douglas & McIntyre Publishing. His short stories have been published in periodicals across Canada and the U.S. His first play, Trickster of Third Avenue East, was produced by Native Earth Performing Arts, which twice named Darrell their “Writer-in- Residence.” His semi-autobiographical one-man play, Tales of an Urban Indian, in which he explored themes of growing up as an indigenous First Nations Native American, was nominated for two Dora Awards and has been produced for multiple tours across Canada and the United States

Corey Brill, audiobook narrator, is a stage, film, and television actor who has performed on Broadway, at The Kennedy Center, and in regional theaters across the country. He has appeared on television in The Walking Dead, Chicago PD, Scorpion, and You’re the Worst. A graduate of Otterbein College and University of California at San Diego, he also writes songs and keeps bees on a rooftop in downtown Los Angeles.

Rainy Fields is a registered member of the Muskogee Creek Nation and is of Cherokee descent. After a back injury during her first year of college, Rainy took an acting class in an effort to boost her GPA and fell in love with the craft, eventually earning her BA in theater. Rainy now lives in Los Angeles, where she is a member of an all-Native improv troupe. Rainy is also an ensemble member of Native Voices at the Autry, and she co-hosts the podcast Hollywood Ndnz, which explores what it’s like to be Native and in the entertainment industry.

Aden Hakimi is a voice-over actor based in Brooklyn. He studied theater performance at Northeastern University in Boston, with adjunct studies at Cambridge University in England and the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. For over a decade, he has done voice work for audiobooks, commercials, animation, and corporate videos.