Allison Hedge Coke will read and discuss her work. She is a poet, memoirist, anthologist, fiction and scriptwriter whose books include the poetry collections Dog Road Woman, which received the American Book Award, Off-Season City Pipe, Streaming, Burn, The Year of the Rat, Icicles, Blood Run, the memoir Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer, and Blood Run, a verse-play. Hedge Coke has edited eight additional collections including Ahani, Effigies I, II, & III, They Wanted Children, Coming to Life, and Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas. She has been an invitational performer in poetry festivals in Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Canada, and Jordan, a visiting poet at Shandong University in China, and a Hawthornden Castle Resident in Scotland. Some of her awards include King-Chavez-Parks Award, Lifetime Achievement Award Native Writers Circle of the Americas, Wordcrafter of the Year Award, Pen Southwest Book Award, and the 2016 Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship. She is founding faculty for the VCFA MFA in Writing & Publishing program, the Dan & Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals, and a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside.
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October 29, 2020
