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Lindsey Smith

Lindsey Smith is Professor of English at Oklahoma State University and inaugural Director of NYU Tulsa. Her area of study is Native American and Oklahoma film and literature. Her most recent book is Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma (2023). She has hosted Tulsa’s Native American Literature Book Club for the past six years in partnership with Whitty Books and has served in leadership for the Tulsa LitFest, Indian Territory Film Festival, and the Center for Poets and Writers at OSU-Tulsa. She is a roller coaster and summer camp enthusiast.

Music

On A Tulsa Rooftop, Keyland Stayed Down To Earth

The Americana band, recently lauded as buzzworthy in Rolling Stone, lets humor and heart shine through its new album "Knuckle Sandwich"

July 2, 2026
Music

Parker Millsap Still Gets Us

No boring nostalgia here: The Oklahoma-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter revisited his decade-old album "The Very Last Day" with impassioned new interpretations.

June 30, 2026
Music

Kalyn Fay Calls In The Collective

The release show for ᎠᏫᏒᏅ (“Garden”), their first record in 7 years, was Tulsa's music scene at its best

May 1, 2026
Music

Samantha Crain, Newly Rooted In Tulsa, Gets A Star-Studded Welcome 

The Choctaw singer-songwriter’s show at The Vanguard marks a new beginning

April 10, 2026
Reviews

On A Rooftop With Wilderado And Ken Pomeroy 

The hometown musicians created a rare Tulsa music moment

June 4, 2025
Culture

It Turns Out That Film Noir And Tulsa Have Way More In Common Than We Thought

Fadem’s curation of Noir Nights is in some sense an antidote to the very themes—isolation, loneliness, severed relationships—so prominent in these films.

April 21, 2024