Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Award-winning author, Cherokee cultural historian, and educator.

• Books:
• Even As We Breathe, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2020
• In progress: All Will Be Water Again, a novel
• In progress: Sololonecet, a novel
• Short Fiction:
• “Ravenmocker,” Ghosts of the Old North State. Southern, Ed., Durham, NC: Blair Press, 2025.
• “Undertow,” Carolina Mountains Literary Festival Anthology. Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2015. 28-34. Print.
• Pink Clouds, Naked Came the Leaf Peeper: a Novel Knopp, Brian Lee, et al. Asheville, NC: Burning Bush Press, 2011.
• “It All Comes Out in the Wash,” Appalachian Heritage: A Literary Quarterly of the Southern Appalachians Vol. 37. No.: 4, George Brosi, Berea, KY: Loyal Jones Appalachian Center, Berea College.
• Nonfiction/Essay:
• “What’s in a Name” in Southlands Magazine, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2026.
• “Flood Walking” in Troublesome Rising, University of Kentucky Press, 2024 (forthcoming)
• “Postcards from Cherokee,” North Carolina Literary Review, No. 32 2023.
• “Bear Essentials,” Our State Magazine (forthcoming)
• “Beyond the Boundaries,” Our State Magazine, 21 April 2023.
• “Ode to Chestnut Bread,” Bon Appétit Magazine, Mar 2023
• “Behind the Mask,” Our State Magazine, 27 March 2023.
• “Smoky Mountain Roots,” Our State Magazine 26 September 2022.
• “True Grit in Cherokee,” Our State Magazine 29 August 2022.
• “How Our Indian Country Flattened the Curve.” The Atlantic, 31 July 2020.
• “There is No Place Like Home” in Wildsam Field Guide: The Great Smoky Mountains “The Purple High Country”: Austin, TX: Wildsam Press: 2020. Print.
• “What the US Could Learn From the Eastern Band Cherokee Indians’ Pandemic Response.” LitHub,10 Sept. 2020.
• “My Great Grandmother is a Cherokee….” The Food We Eat, The Stories We Tell, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 2019. Print.
• “Marie Junaluska,” Step Into the Circle, Winston Salem, NC: Blair Publishing, 2019. Print.
• “My Great-Grandmother is a Cherokee,” South Writ Large Winter 2017.
• “No Man is an Island,” Smoky Mountain Living Magazine April 2017. Print.
• “A Snake’s Purpose,” Smoky Mountain Living Magazine February 2017. Print.
• “The Decorum of Decoration Day,” Smoky Mountain Living Magazine June-July 2016: 24-25. 2016. Print.
• “The Queen and the Chiggers,” Smoky Mountain Living Magazine April 2016. Print.
• “The Sap’s A Risin’,” Smoky Mountain Living Magazine February 2016. Print.
• “With Any Luck,” Smoky Mountain Living Magazine Dec. 2015-Jan.2016: 26-27. 2016. Print.
• “Undertow.” Carolina Mountains Literary Festival Anthology. Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2015. 28-34. Print.
• “Giving Me the Woollies,” Smoky Mountain Living Magazine Oct.-Nov. 2015: 24-25. Print.
• “Everything is Nuts,” Smoky Mountain Living Magazine Aug.-Sept. 2015: 28. Print.
• “What Dreams May Come,” Smoky Mountain Living Magazine Jun.-Jul. 2015: 24. Print.
• “A Blue Bottle Tree Grows in Appalachia,” Smoky Mountain Living Magazine Apr.-May 2015: 26-27. Print.
• “Hold On,” Smoky Mountain Living Magazine Oct.-Nov. 2014: 12-13. Print.
• Poetry:
• “All in Conflict with This Act Are Hereby Repealed,” What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People, Edited by: Howell, Rebecca Gayle, and Ashley M. Jones. The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2023.
• “Camouflage,” Night is Gone, Day is Still Coming, Edited by: Annette Ochoa, Betsy Franco, and Traci Gourdine. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2003.
• “Deep South,” Award Winning Poems Vol. 31, Southern Pines, NC: NC Poetry Society, 1995.
• Additional and forthcoming publication links can be found at the following: https://www.asaunookeclapsaddle.com/portfolio-1

• External Service, Boards, and Juries:
• Founder, Confluence: An Indigenous Writers’ Workshop Series 2023+
• President of the Board, North Carolina Writers Network 2023+
• Vice President of the Board, Museum of the Cherokee People 2023+
• Doris Betts Fiction Prize Judge 2022
• Selection Committee, Wilma Dykeman Writer-in-Residency 2022+
• Vice President of the Board, Museum of the Cherokee Indian 2021+
• Series Editor, Appalachian Futures Series, Univ. Press of Kentucky 2022
• Guest Editor, Indigenous Voice Special Section Jellybucket, Issue #12 2016-19
• Co-editor, Journal of Cherokee Studies 2018
• Co-coordinator, Narrative4 Swain County High School 2015-16
• College of William and Mary Brafferton Legacy Advisory Group 2011-15
• Selection Committee, Sequoyah Distinguished Professor, Western Carolina Univ. 2015

• Attorneys’ Liability Assurance Society (2023)
• University of the Cumberlands (2023)
• Greensboro Bound Literary Festival (2020, 2021, 2023)
• Williamsburg Book Festival (2022)
• Kentucky Book Festival (2021, 2022)
• Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors (2020, 2021, 2022)
• Carolina Mountain Literary Festival (2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2022, 2023)
• Appalachian State University 9th Annual Selu Lecture (2022)
• Appalachian State University Spring Writers Series (2021)
• East Carolina Literary Star Gazing and NC Literary Review event (2021)
• Western Carolina Univ. Literary Festival (2013, 2018, 2021)
• Panelist, NPR Presents “Going There” (2017)
• Additional info at https://www.asaunookeclapsaddle.com/events

• “Whose Story is it Anyway,” Appalachian Funders Network Apr 2023
• Speaker, Panelist, and Collaborator Chow Chow Asheville Food and Culture Festival (2022, 2023)
• “The Living Story: Building Responsive Cultural Empathy through Movement,” The Association for Experiential Education Annual Conference Dec 2022
• Keynote Address, Writers and Readers, Virginia Highlands Literary Festival Jul 2022
• “Storied Lives” North Carolina Reading Association Nov 2022
• “Understanding Modern Cherokee Identity through Literature,” Furman University Lecture Series, Mar 2018

• Blackboard, Moodle, and Google Classroom systems
• Curriculum design and accreditation assessment
• DEI assessment and design
• Maria Massie, Massie Literary Agency, New York, NY