Roger Stouff

Roger Emile Stouff has been an author and journalist for more than thirty years and pens the award-winning column "From the Other Side" in the St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune.

He was featured on the television show "Fly Fishing America" in 2006, and was writer and narrator of the documentary "Native Waters: A Chitimacha Recollection" on Louisiana Public Broadcasting in 2012. Based on his memoirs, "Native Waters" and "The Great Sadness," the show is now showing on public broadcasting stations nationwide, was nominated for an Emmy and was recipient of a Bronze Telly Award.

He is the author of the fiction novels "A Divide Beyond Reason" and its sequel "A River Named Vengeance" that both question the strength and boundaries of friendship and loyalty. A spinoff from those books, "Dead Witch in the River" is a mystery featuring many of the original characters, and has become a series with two more installments: "Those Who Carry Fire" and "Something Broken." He has also embarked on the life story of Lazarus Askuwhetea, as a series beginning with the book "Finding Lazarus."

Stouff also has written science-fiction and epic fantasy novels with co-author Kenneth R. Brown, including the first four books of "The Allidian Saga", a series in the works.

He is the son of Nicholas Leonard Stouff Jr., last chief of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana, and Lydia Marie Gaudet Stouff, daughter of a Cajun farmer.