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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Author photo © Travis Hedge Coke
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke descends from moundbuilders and is of Cherokee, Creek, Huron, Metis, French Canadian, Lorraine, Portuguese, Irish, English, and Scot ascendants. Raised in North Carolina, the Plains and Canada, she previously worked horses, fields, waters, and factories. A fellow of the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, Black Earth Institute (emeritus), Salon Ada, and The Center for Great Plains Institute.
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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke descends from moundbuilders and is of Cherokee, Creek, Huron, Metis, French Canadian, Lorraine, Portuguese, Irish, English, and Scot ascendants. Raised in North Carolina, the Plains and Canada, she previously worked horses, fields, waters, and factories. A fellow of the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, Black Earth Institute (emeritus), Salon Ada, and The Center for Great Plains Institute, with recent residencies at H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest (National Science Foundation), Hawthornden Castle , and Lannan at Marfa, Hedge Coke has held two endowed chairs, is field faculty for the University of Nebraska MFA Program and Naropa University and serves as a Visiting Writer for the University of Central Oklahoma and the University of California, Riverside. Hedge Coke is a literary activist, works with disaster relief, incarcerated youth, elders, and in various alternative populations in need and founded and directs the annual Literary Sandhill Crane Retreat & Festival at the migration epicenter. She previously authored Dog Road Woman (American Book Award for Poetry) and Off-Season City Pipe (Wordcraft Writer of the Year in Poetry), both from Coffee House Press; Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (AIROS Book of the Month, paperback 2014), memoir from the University of Nebraska Press; Blood Run (Wordcraft Writer of the Year for Poetry) from Earthworks of Salt Publishing; and The Year of the Rat (Grimes Press). Burn (MadHat) and Streaming (Coffee House Press) are 2014 releases in poetry and she is currently at work on Red Dust, a film documentary. Recently edited anthologies include, Effigies and Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas (National Book Critics Circle Critical Mass Best of 2012, Wordcraft Circle Best Editing of 2012). Effigies II is her ninth edited volume.
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