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KZNA-FM 90.5 serving northwest Kansas will be off the air starting the afternoon of Monday, October 20 through Friday as we replace its aging and unreliable transmitter. While we're off-air, you can keep listening to our digital stream directly above this alert or on the HPPR mobile app. This planned project is part of our ongoing commitment to maintaining free and convenient access to public radio service via FM radio to everyone in the listening area. For questions please contact station staff at (800) 678-7444 or by emailing hppr@hppr.org
Tracy Floreani

Tracy Floreani

HPPR Radio Readers Book Club Contributor

Tracy Floreani is Professor Emerita of English and former Director of the Jeanne Hoffman Smith Center for Film and Literature at Oklahoma City University. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Kansas, with specializations in American literature, studies in race and ethnicity, and history and theory of the novel. She is also Past-President of the Society for the Study of Multiethnic Literature of the U.S. Tracy has published two scholarly books on ethnic literature and is currently completing on a biography of Fanny McConnell Ellison, the wife of novelist Ralph Ellison. When not reading, writing, or involved in community-based projects, she enjoys gardening, textile arts, and playing American folk music.

  • The cemetery at Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. This cemetery is also home to the gravesite of Sacajawea
    HPPR Features
    The Twins – Love and Grief
    Tracy Floreani
    This is Tracy Floreani in central Oklahoma with a commentary on the last book in the fall 2025 High Plains Public Radio Readers Club. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, by Margaret Renkl, is a bit hard to categorize, but it’s mostly a memoir told through a series of very short essays.