User talk:Kristof15

Keep: None of the works enclosed are self-published. The writers books are with top presses in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. She has won national awards and acclaim as a regular featured poet at international festivals. She is also a judge for Pen-America, Pen-USA and several other prizes. Here are some links that go to the various presses and some links to her works. It seems that someone put up this link based upon her faculty page as the Endowed Chair of Poetry and Writing at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. The memoir that came out with the University of Nebraska Press came out a few years before she accepted a position at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Here are some provided web-links: The following presses are of some national presses who have published Hedge Coke's books:

http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/ewk/1844712664.htm

http://www.coffeehousepress.org/dogroadwoman.asp

http://www.coffeehousepress.org/offseasoncitypipe.asp

http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/(X(1)S(4il5fyamudkjxe25sakkq245))/catalog/productinfo.aspx?id=671208&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Has edited for the following entities:

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/foreign_lang/totopos/anahi.html

http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/ewk/9781844714070.htm

http://www.sf.k12.sd.us/SFSchoolDistrict/staff.aspx?sfsd=WebPointID%3d24%26NewsStoryID%3d0%26__TimeStamp__%3d12%2f31%2f9999+11%3a59%3a59+PM

http://www.iaia.edu/

Bios available on numerous literary field webpages, including:

http://www.poets.org/state.php/varState/NE

http://www.bookweb.org/btw/awards/The-American-Book-Awards---Before-Columbus-Foundation.html

http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/ncw/coke.htm

Bio from the University of Nebraska at Kearney Activities of Endowed Chair webpage:

http://www.unk.edu/acad/english/index.php?id=39530

The following presses are of some national presses who have published Hedge Coke's books:

Has edited for the following entities:

Bios available on numerous literary field webpages, including:

Bio from the University of Nebraska at Kearney Activities of Endowed Chair webpage:

The following presses are of some national presses who have published Hedge Coke's books:

Has edited for the following entities:

Bios available on numerous literary field webpages, including:

Bio from the University of Nebraska at Kearney Activities of Endowed Chair webpage:

Allison Hedge Coke has been an invitational performer in international poetry festivals in Medellin, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Canada, and Jordan and foreign professional in poetry and writing for Shandong University in Wei Hai, China. She is a Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, MacDowell Colony for Artists, Black Earth Institute Think Tank, Hawthornden Castle, and Center for Great Plains Research Fellow, is a former National Endowment for the Humanities Appointment Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hartwick College, and holds the Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in Poetry as an Associate Professor of Poetry and Writing at the University of Nebraska, Kearney where she directs the Reynolds Reading Series and Sandhill Crane Migration Retreat. She is core faculty in the University of Nebraska MFA Program and Visiting Faulty of the MFA Intensive Programs at University of California, Palm Desert and Naropa University, and a 2008 Paul Hanly Furfey Endowed Lecturer. Her books include: Dog Road Woman, American Book Award, Coffee House Press, 1997; The Year of the Rat, chapbook, Grimes Press, 2000; Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer, AIROS Book-of-the-Month, University of Nebraska Press, 2004; Off-Season City Pipe, Wordcraft Writer of the Year for Poetry, Coffee House Press, 2005; Blood Run, Wordcraft Writer of the Year for Poetry, Salt Publications, UK 2006-US 2007; To Topos Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry, Journal Issue of the Year Award (ed.), Oregon State University, 2007; and Effigies, (ed.), Salt Publications, 2009. She has edited five other volumes. Her long poem "The Year of the Rat" is currently being made into a ballet through collaboration with Brent Michael Davids, composer. Recent literary publications include Connecticut Review, Prometeo Memories, Akashic Books, and Black Renaissance Noire. Recent photography publications include Connecticut Review, Future Earth Magazine and Digital Poetics. She has also authored a full-length play Icicles, numerous monologues, and has worked in theater, television, and film. Hedge Coke has been awarded several state and regional artistic and literary grants, fellowships, and tours; multiple excellence in teaching awards, including the King Chavez Parks Award; a Sioux Falls Mayor's Award for Literary Excellence; a National Mentor of the Year, a Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Award; has served on several state, community, and national boards in the arts, a housing board, as a Delegate, in the United Nations Women in Peacemaking Conference, Joan B. Kroc Center for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego, and as a United Nations Presenting Speaker (with James Thomas Stevens, Mohawk Poet), Facilitator, and Speaker Nominator for the only Indigenous Literature Panel of the Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Forum. For many years she has worked with incarcerated and underserved Indigenous youth and youth of color mentorship programs and served as a court official in Indian youth advocacy and CASA. Hedge Coke has edited five additional collections and is editing two book series of emerging Indigenous writing. She is Huron and Cherokee, French Canadian and Portuguese, and came of age working fields, waters, and working in factories.

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