Joan Naviyuk Kane is an Inupiaq American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

. In 2014, Kane was the Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at the School for Advanced Research. She was also a judge for the 2017

Griffin Poetry Prize The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. Before 2022, the awards went to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language. ...

. Kane was awarded a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in 2018.

Life

Joan Kane is Inupiaq, and has family from

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and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. She graduated from

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher lea ...

with a BA and earned an M.F.A from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. She lives in

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with her 2 children.

Awards

* 2004 John Haines Award from Ice Floe Press * 2006

Walt Whitman Award The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

semi-finalist by the Academy of American Poets * 2007 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award * 2009

Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard E ...

* 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 The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "the ...

for ''Hyperboreal'' *2016 Tuttle Creative Residency. *2016 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award. *2016 Aninstantia Foundation Artist Award. *2017 Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship. *2018 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship *2019 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Fellowship

Works

"Insomnia at North", ''AGNI'', 3/2006
* ''Due North'', Columbia University, 2006 * ''Cormorant Hunter’s Wife'', NorthShore Press, 2009, ; University of Alaska Press, 2012, * *''Milk Black Carbon''. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2017. *''The Straits''. Voices from the American Land, 2015. V.4, Issue 2 *''A Few Lines in the Manifest''. Albion Books. 14 May 2018. *Sublingual. Finishing Line Press. 2 November 2018. *''Another Bright Departure''. CutBank Books. March 2019. . *''Dark Traffic''. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2021.

Play

* ''The Gilded Tusk,'' won the Anchorage Museum script contest

In Anthology

* ''Best American Poetry'', Simon & Schuster, 2015. *''Monticello in Mind'', University of Virginia Press, 2016. *''Read America(s)''. Locked Horns Press, 2016. *''Syncretism and Survival, Forums on Poetics''. Locked Horns Press, 2017. *''Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology''. University of Georgia Press, 2018. *The Poem's Country: Place and Poetic Practice. 2018. Pleiades Press.

References

External links

Author's WebsiteProfile at The Whiting Foundation
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