Kim Shuck is a Tsalagi (Cherokee)/Euro-American poet, author, weaver, and bead work artist who draws from Southeastern Native American culture and tradition as well as contemporary urban Indian life. She was born in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

and belongs to the northern California Cherokee diaspora. She is a member of the

Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma The Cherokee Nation (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ ''Tsalagihi Ayeli'' or ᏣᎳᎩᏰᎵ ''Tsalagiyehli''), also known as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is the largest of three Cherokee federally recognized tribes in the United States. It ...

. She earned a B.A. in art (1994), and M.F.A. in Textiles (1998) from

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. Her basket weaving work is influenced by her grandmother Etta Mae Rowe and the long history of California Native American basket making. She has taught American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University and was an artist in residence at the

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in June 2010 with

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. On June 21, 2017, Mayor

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named Shuck as the 7th

poet laureate A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ...

of San Francisco.

Awards

* 2022 COSTO Medal from University of California Riverside * 2019 National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets * 2019 PEN Oakland Censorship Award * 2008 KQED Local Hero Award, American Indian Heritage Month * 2007 ''Smuggling Cherokee'', Poetry Foundation bestseller list (March) * 2006 ''Smuggling Cherokee'', SPD Books bestseller list (March) * 2005 Mentor of the Year Award Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers * 2005 Native Writers of the Americas First Book, Diane Decorah Award * 2004 Mary Tallmountain Award

Bibliography

Author: *2021 ''Exile Heart'', That Painted Horse Press *2019 ''Deer Trails: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 7'', City Lights Publishers * 2014 ''Sidewalk Ndn'', solo chapbook of poetry, FootHills Publishing * 2014 ''Clouds Running In'', solo book of poetry, Taurean Horn Press * 2013 ''Rabbit Stories'', vignette fiction, Poetic Matrix Press * 2005 ''Smuggling Cherokee'', solo volume of poems, Greenfield Review Press Editor: * 2010 "Rabbit and Rose", online journal, editor, online publication (http://www.rabbitandrose.com/) * 2007 ''Oakland Out Loud'', (Ed.) anthology, co-editor, Jukebox Press * 2006 ''Words Upon the Waters'', (Ed.) anthology, assistant editor, Jukebox Press 2006

References

*When Words Matter: An Interview with Kim Shuck (1-12-2015
An Interview with Kim Shuck and Marcer Campbell
*Contributor: River, Blood and Corn ... ed. Terra Trevor ..

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