From IN THE ROUND
In the Round, BGSU’s celebration of indigenous creativity, will host printmaker, painter and illustrator Rebecca Lee Kunz and horror writer and editor Shane Hawk this fall.
Rebecca Lee Kunz
Kunz will visit Bowling Green on Friday, Sept. 18, and Saturday, Sept. 19. She will give a public lecture at 5:30 p.m. in the Donnell Theatre Wolfe Center for the Arts on the BGSU campus.
On Saturday at 10 a.m. she will speak in the atrium of the Wood County District Public Library.
Rebecca Lee Kunz
Kunz is the artist and owner of Tree of Life Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, working at the intersection of environmental justice and cultural awareness. Rebecca was the 2025 Randolf Caldecott medalist and 2026 American Indian Youth Literature Award recipient for her illustrations of “Chooch Helped.”
A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, her work draws upon tribal iconography and archetypal symbolism. She infuses mythology into her work where she is in conversation with each tale as a living and emergent story. A visual storyteller and folklorist, she hopes to illuminate awareness about our shifting climate and to inspire solutions to the issues of today.
Shane Hawk
Hawk will give a lecture Friday, Oct. 23 at 5:30 pm in the Donnell Theatre
Wolfe Center for the Arts on campus. He will also speak at the Wood County District Public Library on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 6:30 p.m. in the atrium.
Also on Friday, Hawk will lead a Spooky Night Walk Friday, October 23
Slippery Elm Trail. Storytelling begins at 7:30 p.m.
Shane Hawk Hawk is a horror writer, editor, and creator of the Native Horror Index. He serves as a contributing editor at Counterpoint Press, where he exclusively acquires and edits works by Indigenous North American writers.
Hawk is the coeditor of the bestselling anthology series “Never Whistle at Night” and cowriter of the horror stage play “The Land Has Spoken.”
He lives in San Diego, California, with his wife and daughter, and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.
