Julija Šukys teaches the writing of memoirs, autobiographical writing, essays, and archival research methods. She is the author of Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė (University of Nebraska Press, 2012), and Silence Is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (University of Nebraska Press, 2007). Šukys holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto.

“Making the archives palpable is what Šukys is trying to do in Artifact. By locating us in the place—whether in the library, in the archives, in conversation with a victim, or in the room with a shooter, Šukys invites the reader to stay longer at the scene.” —Nicole Walker, author of Sustainability: A Love Story; Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh, and Navigating Disaster; Egg; and Micrograms. She is professor of English and MFA program director at Northern Arizona University. “An elegant mixture of the personal and the historical. Šukys’s engaging journey invites the reader to feel the pull of the archive, and the many twists and turns of the search.” —Philip Nel, author of How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children’s Classic and university distinguished professor of English at Kansas State University.

• Acknowledgments Scope and Contents Box I: A Record of Violence SERIES 1 Box II: 1989, L’École Polytechnique de MontrÉal (Montreal, QC) Folder 1. Winter Storm Folder 2. Monuments Box III: 1992, Concordia University (Montreal, QC) Folder 3. Trapped Folder 4. Truthtellers SERIES 2 Box IV: 2007, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) Folder 5. Insiders/Outsiders Folder 6. Root Box V: 2010, University of Alabama (Huntsville, AL) Folder 7. Vengeance Weapon Folder 8. Forgiveness SERIES 3 Box VI: 2015, Umpqua Community College (Roseburg, OR) Folder 9. Timber Country Folder 10. Bloom Box VII: A Different Testimony Notes Works Cited Index

Julija Šukys teaches the writing of memoirs, autobiographical writing, essays, and archival research methods. She is the author of Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė (University of Nebraska Press, 2012), and Silence Is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (University of Nebraska Press, 2007). Šukys holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto.

“Making the archives palpable is what Šukys is trying to do in Artifact. By locating us in the place—whether in the library, in the archives, in conversation with a victim, or in the room with a shooter, Šukys invites the reader to stay longer at the scene.” —Nicole Walker, author of Sustainability: A Love Story; Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh, and Navigating Disaster; Egg; and Micrograms. She is professor of English and MFA program director at Northern Arizona University. “An elegant mixture of the personal and the historical. Šukys’s engaging journey invites the reader to feel the pull of the archive, and the many twists and turns of the search.” —Philip Nel, author of How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children’s Classic and university distinguished professor of English at Kansas State University.

• Acknowledgments Scope and Contents Box I: A Record of Violence SERIES 1 Box II: 1989, L’École Polytechnique de MontrÉal (Montreal, QC) Folder 1. Winter Storm Folder 2. Monuments Box III: 1992, Concordia University (Montreal, QC) Folder 3. Trapped Folder 4. Truthtellers SERIES 2 Box IV: 2007, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) Folder 5. Insiders/Outsiders Folder 6. Root Box V: 2010, University of Alabama (Huntsville, AL) Folder 7. Vengeance Weapon Folder 8. Forgiveness SERIES 3 Box VI: 2015, Umpqua Community College (Roseburg, OR) Folder 9. Timber Country Folder 10. Bloom Box VII: A Different Testimony Notes Works Cited Index

Julija Šukys teaches the writing of memoirs, autobiographical writing, essays, and archival research methods. She is the author of Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė (University of Nebraska Press, 2012), and Silence Is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (University of Nebraska Press, 2007). Šukys holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto.

“Making the archives palpable is what Šukys is trying to do in Artifact. By locating us in the place—whether in the library, in the archives, in conversation with a victim, or in the room with a shooter, Šukys invites the reader to stay longer at the scene.” —Nicole Walker, author of Sustainability: A Love Story; Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh, and Navigating Disaster; Egg; and Micrograms. She is professor of English and MFA program director at Northern Arizona University. “An elegant mixture of the personal and the historical. Šukys’s engaging journey invites the reader to feel the pull of the archive, and the many twists and turns of the search.” —Philip Nel, author of How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children’s Classic and university distinguished professor of English at Kansas State University.

• Acknowledgments Scope and Contents Box I: A Record of Violence SERIES 1 Box II: 1989, L’École Polytechnique de MontrÉal (Montreal, QC) Folder 1. Winter Storm Folder 2. Monuments Box III: 1992, Concordia University (Montreal, QC) Folder 3. Trapped Folder 4. Truthtellers SERIES 2 Box IV: 2007, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) Folder 5. Insiders/Outsiders Folder 6. Root Box V: 2010, University of Alabama (Huntsville, AL) Folder 7. Vengeance Weapon Folder 8. Forgiveness SERIES 3 Box VI: 2015, Umpqua Community College (Roseburg, OR) Folder 9. Timber Country Folder 10. Bloom Box VII: A Different Testimony Notes Works Cited Index