Welcome to The Write Question, a program that explores the world of writing and publishing in the western United States. Our guest today is poet Kristi Hager from Missoula, Montana.

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Hager wrote the text for a new book published by FarCountry Press that features the photographs of Evelyn Cameron. The book, titled Evelyn Cameron: Montana's Frontier Photographer, was recently chosen as a Montana Book Award Honor Book for 2007. Hager has lectured for the Montana Committee for the Humanities Speakers’ Bureau since 1996, giving talks on Evelyn Cameron and on her own historic preservation photography. Hager’s large format photographs are featured in Conveniences Sorely Needed: Montana’s Historic Highway Bridges 1860-1956, written by Jon Axline for the Montana Historical Society.

Look for more information about Kristi Hager at her Web site: www.kristihager.com

Read a review of Evelyn Cameron: Montana's Frontier Photographer at NewWest.net

Recently published books by regional writers include, This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor, by Susan Wicklund, with Alan Kesselheim from Bozeman, Montana.

If you like fantasy novels, look for The Cipher, by Diana Pharaoh Francis from Dillon, Montana.

For more information about new books, contact your favorite bookseller or library.

And here’s a quote from Jenny Shank, book reviewer for NewWest.net: “It’s impossible to come away from Evelyn Cameron: Montana’s Frontier Photographer without being charmed by the person at the center of it, a woman who lived so vibrantly that some of that energy is palpable still, eighty years after her death.””

The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.

Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.

Special thanks to Barbara Theroux, Prageeta Sharma, Renée McGrath, and Kim Anderson.

This program is supported in part by The Greater Montana Foundation—encouraging communication on issues, trends, and values of importance to Montanans. And by Humanities Montana, enriching intellectual, cultural, and civic life for all Montanans.

This program included music by Michael Blessing and Springhill.

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Guests on the The Write Question are writers, publishers, and illustrators living, or working for an extended period of time, in the western United States. The Write Question is a production of Montana Public Radio.