Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (born August 4, 1958) is an American Book Award-winning American/Canadian poet of mixed First Nations/European ancestry.

Life
Hedge Coke was born in Texas and grew up and came of age in North Carolina, Canada, and on the Great Plains. Her early adult life was also spent in North Carolina until she was 27.

Hedge Coke is a former National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor/Writer appointment for Hartwick College, an original fellow of the Black Earth Institute Think-Tank, a MacDowell Colony for the Arts Fellow, a Hawthorden Castle Fellow, a Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities Fellow, a current University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Great Plains Study Fellow {flagship campus}, holds the Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English, and is an Associate Professor of Poetry & Creative Writing in the English Department of the University of Nebraska at Kearney. University of Nebraska Biographical Information Link for Endowed Chair

Writing
In an American Library Association starred Booklist review of Blood Run ALA reviewer Patricia Monaghan described Hedge Coke as William Blake.

Of the mathematic prosody in "Blood Run" Chadwick Allen won a Don D. Walker Award for his critical paper published in "American Literature" of Duke Journals

Of Dog Road Woman Amiri Baraka described her as "skilled" and "spirited".

Mira Bartok Review of Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer in Fourth Genre

Reviews highlighted on University of Nebraska Press page include, Billings Gazette Reviewer's (Chris Rubich) statement as "Razor-sharp."

Nebraska Writers Page, "What the Critics Say" Gathers review listings at Creighton University.

South Dakota Center for the Books Festival Featured Author

Noted on Hate Crimes

Awards
http://www.unk.edu/fah/english.aspx?id=27130University of Nebraska Biographical Page for Endowed Chair The University of Nebraska at Kearney Endowed Chair Faculty webpage cites the other following state and national awards and citations:
 * Two Pushcart Prize nominations in 2009 for work published in 2008.
 * Fellow University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Great Plains Study. 2008-current.
 * South Dakota Arts Council Collaborative Grant in 2008-9.
 * Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture. An Endowed Lecture. Association of Sociology in Religion. Boston, MA. 2008.
 * Hawthornden Castle Fellow Residency. Hawthornden Castle 2008.
 * United Nations Panel Facilitator. Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Forum. New York, NY. 2008. Invitational.
 * 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.
 * Writer of the Year in Poetry in 2006-2007 by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers: Blood Run from Salt Publishing. 2008.
 * Distinguished Paul and Clarice A. Reynolds Chair of English-Poetry & Writing- University of Nebraska at Kearney 2007-current.
 * Delegate, United Nations Women in Peacemaking Conference, Joan B. Kroc Center for Peace and Justice, Kroc Center University of San Diego. San Diego, CA. 2006.
 * United Nations Presenting Speaker. Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Forum. New York, NY. 2006. Invitational.
 * Writer of the Year in Poetry in 2005 by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Off Season City Pipe Coffeehouse Press.
 * King Chavez Parks Teaching Award Northern Michigan University. 2005.
 * Black Earth Institute, Fellow. Black Earth Institute. Madison, WI. 2005-2008.
 * National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Hartwick College Oneonta, New York. 2004.
 * Book-of-the-Month, Native America Calling AIROS Native Radio Network, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. August 2004.
 * Mayor's Award for Literary Excellence 2003. Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sioux Falls Empire Arts Council
 * South Dakota Arts Council Artist Fellowship 2002.
 * Excellence in Teaching AwardsSioux Falls Area Community Foundation. 2002 and 2004.
 * Mentor of the Year in 2001 Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers for national work with incarcerated Native youth.
 * Reading Rainbow Judge. 2002.
 * Pushcart Prize nominations 1999 and 2000.
 * 'Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship'' finalist. 1999.
 * South Dakota Arts Council Individual Artist Project Grants/Fellowships 1999, 2002.
 * 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.
 * Macdowell Colony Resident Fellow in Petersborough, New Hampshire, in fall 1996.
 * Abiko Quarterly Editor's Choice Award. Cid Corman, Editor. 1995.
 * Doris Gregory Memorial Scholarship and Creative Writing Award New Mexico Press Women 1993.
 * Associate Residency Atlantic Center for the Arts 1992.
 * PEN America Judge
 * Named Fellow at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln Center for Great Plains Study 2008.
 * Hawthornden Castle Fellow. Hawthornden Castle 2008.
 * Named National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Writer at Hartwick College in 2004.

Publications

 * Blood Run, Salt Publishing (poems (free verse play)).
 * Off-Season City Pipe, Coffee House Press (poems).
 * Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer, University of Nebraska Press (memoir).
 * Dog Road Woman : Poems, Coffee House Press.
 * Year Of The Rat, (Chapbook) Grimes Press.

Edited

 * "Effigies II: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing." Editor, Salt Publishing. 2012
 * "Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas", Editor, University of Arizona Press. 2011.
 * "Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing", Pacific Rim, Editor, Salt Publishing. 2009.
 * "Bone Light" by Orlando White, series editor, Red Hen Press. 2009.
 * From the Fields, Editor, California Poets in the Schools Press.
 * ''Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry", Editor, Oregon State University.
 * 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) 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.
 * Voices of Thunder: New Work from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Co-Editor with Heather Ahtone, Institute of American Indian Arts Press.

Writing available online

 * Memory from Salt Publishing.
 * Street Confetti from Xcp: Streetnotes Winter 2003.
 * Eternity Safeway from Xcp: Streetnotes Winter 2003.
 * Clowns Crowned: in-RAGE from Xcp: Streetnotes Winter 2003.
 * Allison Hedge Coke, "Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor", Southern Spaces, 14 October 2010.

Interviews or autobiographical essays

 * ECU/UNCC Interview with Allison Hedge Coke.
 * Dakota Midday SDPR January 2008
 * NPR Prosody WYEP Pittsburgh.
 * AIROS August 2004 Book of the Month: Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer [RealAudio]
 * Food for Thought Interview (3/19/04) on South Dakota Public Radio
 * Writers Giving Back, Pass the Torch, by Catherine Wald, Poets and Writers (May 2004)
 * Quiet Mountain Essays Interview with editor Suzanne Sunshower
 * Speaking for the Generations : Native Writers on Writing, Sun Tracks Vol. 35, University of Arizona Press.
 * French Connections, Christine Gelineau, editor.
 * Writers Segment (2/5/01) on South Dakota Public Radio [RealAudio]
 * Writers Segment (2/6/01) on South Dakota Public Radio [RealAudio]
 * House Blend (9/17/00) on South Dakota Public Radio [RealAudio]
 * House Blend (7/30/00) on South Dakota Public Radio [RealAudio]
 * House Blend (7/2/00) on South Dakota Public Radio [RealAudio]
 * James Thomas Stevens & Allison Hedge Coke on UN Radio (RealAudio) United Nations
 * Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature
 * Connecticut Review