Allison Hedge Coke

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American poet and editor. Her debut book, Dog Road Woman, won the American Book Award and was the first finalist of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Diane DeCora Award. Since then, she has written five more books and edited eight anthologies.

Career

Hedge Coke held a National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor/Writer appointment for Hartwick College (2004), is an original and emeritus fellow of the Black Earth Institute Think-Tank, a MacDowell Colony for the Arts Fellow, a Hawthorden Castle Fellow, a Soul Mountain Fellow, a Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities Fellow, a Lannan Foundation residency fellow, a current University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Great Plains Study Fellow {flagship campus}, served as the Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English, and as an Associate Professor of Poetry & Creative Writing in the English Department of the University of Nebraska at Kearney (2007–2012) and University of Nebraska low-residency MFA program (2007-current), Visiting Artist of the University of Central Oklahoma (2012–2014), and as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (2014). ^[1][2] She has also served as a Visiting Writer for the University of California Riverside (2014) and University of California Riverside–Palm Desert (2008), and taught for Northern Michigan University, the University of Arkansas, Lenore-Rhyne, Kilian College, and the University of Sioux Falls. Hedge Coke is a Founding Faculty of the full residency Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing and Publishing (2015–), teaches for [Oklahoma City University's Red Earth MFA (2016–), and is visiting faculty for the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University. She has directed the annual Literary Sandhill Crane Retreat, in conjunction with her studies in migration patterning influence on flyway communities, since 2007. Hedge Coke is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.^[3]

Poetry

Hedge Coke's work Blood Run a collection of sixty-six poems, was inspired by the traditions of the Native American Mound Builders and their earthworks. The poems show a mathematical patterning based on the numbers four, three and seven and on the sequence of the first 24 primes.^[4]

Discography

• Streaming, Long Person Records, with trio project Rd Klā (album).^[5]

Bibliography

• Streaming, Coffee House Press (poems) Split This Rock Teaching for Change Best Books of 2014 ISBN 978-1-56689-375-6

Winner: Wordcrafter of the Year Award Winner: 2015 IPPY Award – Bronze Medal (Independent Publisher Book Awards) Finalist: 2015 Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award for superior cover art. Finalist: 2015 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal for most thought-provoking book.Finalst: 2015 2015 Eric Hoffer Award. Longlist: 2015 PEN/Open Book Award 2014 Split This Rock Notable Book 2014 Teaching for Change Notable Book .^[6]

• "Effigies II: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing." Editor, Salt Publishing. 2014^[7] Native America Calling Book of the Month
• Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer, University of Nebraska Press (memoir, paperback edition), ISBN 978-0-8032-4846-5 Native America Calling Book of the Month.^[8]
• "Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas", Editor, University of Arizona Press. 2011.^[9]
• "Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing", Pacific Rim, Editor, Salt Publishing. 2009.^[10]
• "also, acquisition editor: Bone Light" by Orlando White, Red Hen Press. 2009.
• Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry", Editor, Oregon State University.^[11]
• Blood Run", Salt Publishing (poems (free verse play poems)) ISBN 1844712664 Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year Award. Native America Calling Book of the Month.^[12]
• Off-Season City Pipe, Coffee House Press (poems) ISBN 978-1-56689-171-4

Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year Award, New York Book Festival Mention [Poetry] Native America Calling Book of the Month.^[13]

• From the Fields, Editor, California Poets in the Schools Press.^[14]
• Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer, University of Nebraska Press (memoir) ISBN 978-0-8032-1527-6 Native America Calling Book of the Month.

AIROS Book-of-the-Month, Booklist ALA Starred.^[15][16]

• They Wanted Children, Editor, Sioux Falls School District Press. Sioux Falls School District (South Dakota)
• Coming to Life, Editor, Sioux Falls School District Press. Sioux Falls School District (South Dakota)^[17] Poems of Peace After 9-11.
• Dog Road Woman : PoemsISBN 978-1-56689-061-8 American Book Award, First Finalist Paterson Poetry Prize and Diane Decorah Award [Poetry], Coffee House Press.^[18]
• Year Of The Rat, (Chapbook) Grimes Press.^[19]
• It's Not Quiet Anymore: New Work from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Co-Senior Editor with Heather Ahtone, Institute of American Indian Arts Press.^[20]
• Voices of Thunder: New Work from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Co-Editor with Heather Ahtone, Institute of American Indian Arts Press.

Books edited or co-edited

Edited Books

• "Effigies II: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing." Editor, Salt Publishing. 2014^[21]
• "Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas", Editor, University of Arizona Press. 2011.^[9]
• "Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing", Pacific Rim, Editor, Salt Publishing. 2009.
• "Bone Light" by Orlando White, series editor, Red Hen Press. 2009.^[22]
• From the Fields, Editor, California Poets in the Schools Press.^[14]
• Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry", Editor, Oregon State University. Oregon State University.^[11]
• They Wanted Children, Editor, Sioux Falls School District Press. Sioux Falls School District (South Dakota) Sioux Falls School District (South Dakota) Poems and stories of coping. The Lost Boys from Sudan, American Indian students, Immigrant...
• Coming to Life, Editor, Sioux Falls School District Press. Sioux Falls School District (South Dakota). Sioux Falls School District (South Dakota)^[17] Poems of Peace After 9-11.
• It's Not Quiet Anymore: New Work from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Co-Senior Editor with Heather Ahtone, Institute of American Indian Arts Press. Institute of American Indian Arts Press.^[20]
• Voices of Thunder: New Work from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Co-Editor with Heather Ahtone, Institute of American Indian Arts Press.*"Institute of American Indian Arts Press.^[20]

Awards

• Four Pushcart Prize nominations in 2009 for work published in 2008.^[23][24]
• ^[25] Fellow University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Great Plains Study. 2008-current.
• South Dakota Arts Council Collaborative Grant in 2008-9.^[26]
• Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture. An Endowed Lecture. Association of Sociology in Religion. Boston, MA. 2008.^[27]
• Journal of the Year Editor in 2006–2007 Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers To Topos International Journal of Poetry Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry Oregon State University. 2008.^[28]
• King Chavez Parks Teaching Award^[29] Northern Michigan University. 2005.
• Book-of-the-Month, Native America Calling AIROS Native Radio Network, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. August 2004.
• South Dakota Arts Council Artist Fellowship 2002.^[26]
• Excellence in Teaching AwardsSioux Falls Area Community Foundation. 2002 and 2004.^[30]
• South Dakota Arts Council Individual Artist Project Grants/Fellowships 1999, 2002.^[26]
• Dog Road Woman Winner 1998 American Book Award Before Columbus Foundation, finalist, 1998 Paterson Prize, finalist, Native Writers' Circle of the Americas First Book Award in Poetry.
• South Dakota Arts Council Artist in Residence 1998-current.^[26]
• Abiko Quarterly Editor's Choice Award. Cid Corman, Editor. 1995.^[31]

External links

• Blog
• PEN Member Page
• Distinguished Writer UHM
• Visiting Artist UCO
• Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English, Poetry & Creative Writing professors
• Paul W. and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair notes University of Nebraska
• Reynolds Chair UNK hosting Cranefest
• UNK Faculty
• UNK Reynolds Chair
• Reynolds Series sponsors Cave Canem Fellows reading

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