Joan Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane is an Inupiaq American poet. In 2014, Kane was the Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at the School for Advanced Research. She was also a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. Kane was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. She has faculty appointments in the English departments of Harvard College, Tufts University, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and most recently, Reed College.

Life
Joan Kane is Inupiaq, and has family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. She graduated from Harvard College with a BA and earned an M.F.A from Columbia University.

She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her 2 children. As of 2023, Kane serves as the Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Awards

 * 2004 John Haines Award from Ice Floe Press
 * 2006 Walt Whitman Award semi-finalist by the Academy of American Poets
 * 2007 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award
 * 2009 Whiting Award
 * 2009 National Native Creative Development Program Longhouse Education and Cultural Center Grantee
 * 2010 Alaska Native Writers on the Environment Award
 * 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry from AWP
 * 2013 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship
 * 2013 Rasmuson Foundation Artist Fellowship
 * 2014 Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at School for Advanced Research
 * 2014 American Book Award for Hyperboreal
 * 2016 Tuttle Creative Residency.
 * 2016 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award.
 * 2016 Aninstantia Foundation Artist Award.
 * 2017 Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship.
 * 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
 * 2019 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Fellowship
 * 2023 Paul Engle Prize

Works

 * "Insomnia at North", AGNI, 3/2006
 * Due North, Columbia University, 2006
 * Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, NorthShore Press, 2009, ISBN 9780979436529; University of Alaska Press, 2012, ISBN 9781602231573
 * Milk Black Carbon. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0-8229-6451-3
 * The Straits. Voices from the American Land, 2015. V.4, Issue 2
 * A Few Lines in the Manifest. Albion Books. 14 May 2018.
 * Sublingual. Finishing Line Press. 2 November 2018. ISBN 978-163534769-2
 * Another Bright Departure. CutBank Books. March 2019. ISBN 978-1-9397-1730-6.
 * Dark Traffic. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2021. ISBN 978-0-8229-6662-3
 * Ex Machina, Staircase Books. 7 June 2023. ISBN 9781960769008
 * Ex Machina, Staircase Books. 7 June 2023. ISBN 9781960769008

Play

 * The Gilded Tusk, won the Anchorage Museum script contest

In Anthology

 * Best American Poetry, Simon & Schuster, 2015.
 * Monticello in Mind, University of Virginia Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0813938509
 * Read America(s). Locked Horns Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0990359920
 * Syncretism and Survival, Forums on Poetics. Locked Horns Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0990359937
 * Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press, 2018.ISBN 9780820353159
 * The Poem's Country: Place and Poetic Practice. 2018. Pleiades Press. ISBN 978-0-9970994-1-6