LeAnne Howe
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Born | Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. | April 29, 1951
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LeAnne Howe (born April 29, 1951, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is an American author and Eidson Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, Athens.[1] She previously taught American Indian Studies and English at the University of Minnesota and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2]
Early life and education
LeAnne Howe was born into a Choctaw family in
Years later, Howe returned to studies, gaining a
Career
Howe is an author, playwright, scholar, and poet. She has explored Native American experiences through writing screenplays. She has also written fiction, creative non-fiction, plays, and poetry. She has conducted public readings of her work, and has lectured in Japan, Jordan, Israel, Romania, and Spain.[5]
Howe's work has been published in various journals and anthologies.[6]
Honors and awards
She received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 2002 for her novel Shell Shaker.[7] In 2006, Howe's collection of poetry Evidence of Red (Salt Publishing, UK 2005) won the Oklahoma Book Award.[8] In 2012, Howe was the recipient of a United States Artists Fellow award.[9] In 2015, Howe was awarded the first MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages for her second novel, titled Choctalking On Other Realities (Aunt Lute Books, 2013).[10]
Books
- Shell Shaker, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, 2001[11]
- Evidence of Red: Poems and Prose, Salt Publishing, UK, 2005
- Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story, Aunt Lute Books, 2007
- Seeing Red, Pixeled Skins, American Indians and Film, Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, MI, 2013
- Choctalking on Other Realities, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, 2013
- "Singing, Still, Libretto for the 1847 Choctaw Gift to the Irish for Famine Relief," The Irish Times[12]
- Savage Conversations, Coffee House Press, 2019
Plays
- The Mascot Opera (Alexander Street Press, 2008)
- Big PowWow
- Indian Radio Days (Theatre C. G.,1998)
Films
- Co-editor with Harvey Markowitz, and Denise K. Cummings, Seeing Red, Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film, 2013
- Co-producer with James Fortier for Playing Pastimes: American Indian Fast-Pitch Softball, and Survival, 2007[13][14]
- Screenwriter and on-camera narrator for Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire, 2006
See also
- List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
- Native American Studies
- Native American dramatists and playwrights
References
- ^ "LeAnne Howe". University of Georgia. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ "LeAnne Howe :Biography". Poetry Foundation. 16 February 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae Leanne Howe". The University of Illinois. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ "LeAnne Howe". Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ "Native American Authors: LeAnne Howe". Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ "LeAnne Howe (Choctaw) – Searching for Sequoyah". searchingforsequoyah.com. 3 September 2016. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
- ^ "Multicultural Women's Press | Queer Publishing | Aunt Lute Books". Multicultural Women's Press | Queer Publishing | Aunt Lute Books. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
- S2CID 162581881.
- ^ United States Artists Official Website
- ^ "MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures,..." Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
- ISBN 978-0817387983.
- ^ "On the Prairie Diamond: The Weblog of LeAnne Howe". On the Prairie Diamond: The Weblog of LeAnne Howe. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ "LeAnne Howe". www.hanksville.org. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ "LeAnne Howe | Vision Maker Media". www.visionmakermedia.org. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
External links
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