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Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Poet

Name
  
Joan Kane


Genre
  
Poet, novelist

Ethnicity
  
Inupiaq

Awards
  
Whiting Awards

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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