Janet McAdams. Courtesy Goodreads.
Janet McAdams (born 1957) is an American poet and academic.
Life[]
McAdams is of Alabama Creek, Scottish, and Irish descent.
She earned a B.A. in 1983 and an M.A. from the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, and a Ph.D. in 1996 from Emory University.[1]
Shehas taught at the University of Oklahoma.the American School of El Salvador, and the University of Alabama.[2][3] Since 2001, she has been the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in Poetry at Kenyon College.[1]
She is also the editor of Salt Publishing's Earthworks Series of Native poets.
Writing[]
Her debut novel, Red Weather, is about a Native American's trip to a small Central American country in search of her activist parents.[4]
Recognition[]
McAdams wrote The Island of Lost Luggage (University of Arizona Press) which received an American Book Award in 2001 and the First Book Award for Poetry from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas in 1999.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Island of Lost Luggage. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2000.
- Feral. Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2007.
Novel[]
- Red Weather Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2012.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Janet McAdams, Kenyon College. Web, Oct. 25, 2015.
- ↑ "Janet McAdams". Department of English at Kenyon College. http://www.kenyon.edu/x41235.xml. Retrieved December 07, 2012.
- ↑ "Janet McAdams, Creek". Native American Authors. IPL2. http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A634. Retrieved December 07, 2012.
- ↑ "Red Weather by Janet McAdams". Goodreads. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13108196-red-weather. Retrieved December 07, 2012.
- ↑ Search results = au:Janet McAdams, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 25, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Books
- Janet McAdams at Amazon.com
- About
- Janet McAdams at Kenyon College
- Janet McAdams Official website
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