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ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE
has published three full
volumes of poetry, Dog Road Woman (American Book
Award), and Off-Season City Pipe (Wordcraft Writer of
the Year Award), both from Coffee House Press; Blood
Run (a free verse play regarding an Indigenous mound
site), from Salt Publications (UK); a chapbook, The
Year of the Rat; and a memoir, Rock, Ghost, Willow,
Deer (AIROS Book of the Month Selection), from the
University of Nebraska Press.
A MacDowell Fellow and former Atlantic Center for
the Arts resident, Hedge Coke has edited six volumes
of poetry and
writing, including several volumes of emerging poets
and writers; a volume of coping by refugee Sudanese,
Latino, Native American, and other high school
students in a mainstream high school in South Dakota;
the To Topos International Journal, Ahani: Indigenous
American Poetry, the first collection representing the
Western Hemisphere Americas (from the Arctic to
Antarctic Circles) Indigenous Poets (multi-lingual);
and Effigies, Salt Publications (UK).
Hedge Coke has won the Naropa Poetry Prize; the New
Mexico Press Women's Creative Writing Award; several
South Dakota Arts Council fellowships and awards; an
excellence in literary arts Mayor's Award; two
Community Foundation excellence in teaching awards;
the King-Chavez-Parks Excellence in Teaching Award;
Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers
National Mentor of the Year award; and has received a
National Endowment for the Arts project award to
support her directorship of a Writers Voice Program.
She has served as a director for the American Indian
Registry of Performing Arts; as an area coordinator
for California Poets in the Schools; and has worked
for numerous artists in the schools programs
nationwide, oftentimes as a full-year resident
literary artist, beginning with SPACE in North
Carolina in 1982. Her volunteer work has served
students of writing from three to ninety three and
includes service on housing boards, a state board
overseeing arts in education, and several board
services for educational and literary arts programs.
She taught in K-12 for many years and was instrumental
in initiating a Native Studies program at Kilian
College and the WINGS program (mentoring formerly
incarcerated juveniles returning to high school) in
northern Sioux Falls.
Hedge Coke has served as National Endowment for the
Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor at
Hartwick College, New York; was an assistant professor
of the English Department and MFA Program of Northern
Michigan University; a professor of creative writing
at the Institute of American Indian Arts; currently
teaches for the summer intensive MFA/BFA in writing
program at Naropa University and holds the
Distinguished Paul and Clarice Reynolds Chair of
English as an Associate Professor of Poetry and
Writing at the University of Nebraska, Kearney. In the
summers of 2005 and 2007, she performed in the world's
largest and most significant poetry festival in
Medellin, Colombia; in 2006 as the only woman poet
from the United States to perform in the World Poetry
Festival in Venezuela; and in fall of 2007 she will
perform as the only United States poet in the Rosario
International Festival of Poetry in Argentina. She has
been instrumental in
organizing literature and writing projects for
incarcerated youth, underserved communities, and
Indigenous communities and is dedicated to working for
peace through poetry.
Hedge Coke has spoken at the United Nations, has
participated in the United Nations Women's
Peacekeeping effort, and is a MacDowell Colony and
Black Earth Institute Think Tank Fellow. She is
Cherokee (Tsalagi), Huron (Wendat), French Canadian,
Metis, Creek, English, Irish, French, and Portuguese.
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