Joan Kane

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Nationality American Role Poet Name Joan Kane		Genre Poet, novelist Ethnicity Inupiaq Awards Whiting Awards


Alma mater Harvard College;Columbia University Books The Cormorant Hunter's Wife Education Harvard College, Harvard University, Columbia University

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Joan Naviyuk Kane is an Inupiaq American poet. She is 2014 Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at the School for Advanced Research. She is a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize.

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Life

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

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She lives in Anchorage, Alaska with her husband and sons.

Awards

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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

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

Hyperboreal. University of Pittsburgh Press. 21 October 2013. ISBN 978-0-8229-7914-2.

Play

The Gilded Tusk, won the Anchorage Museum script contest

References

Joan Kane Wikipedia

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