Allison Hedge Coke

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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American poet and editor.

Dog Road Woman, her debut book, received the American Book Award and was the first finalist of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Diane DeCora Award.

Since then, she has written five more books and edited eight anthologies.

Hedge Coke is a blend of indigenous and European ethnicity, and several of her works, including Blood Run and Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer, Deer, delves into her indigenous roots.

Early life and education

Coke was born in Amarillo, Texas, to a family she claims to be of French-Canadian, English, Irish, Welsh, Welsh, Portuguese, Cherokee, Huron, and Muscogee descent. Despite not being registered in any Native tribe, she claims that her paternal grandfather, Vaughn, "refused tribal registration for himself and his children" to protest the "diabolical Dawe's Act." Hedge Coke had a very nontraditional childhood education, moving from high school to work in the crop fields to provide for herself. She then began taking community education classes at North Carolina State University, studying photography, traditional arts, and writing. Hedge Coke studied poetry, directing, and technology at Estelle Harmon's Actors Workshop, and then went on to earn an AFAW certificate in creative writing from the Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA summer exchange fellow at Jack Kerouac College of Disembodied Poetics Summer Writing Program) and an MFA in poetry from Vermont College.

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Career

She earned a National Endowment for Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor/Writer position for Hartwick College (2004). She is an original and emeritus fellow of the Black Earth Institute Think-Tank, a MacDowell Colony for the Arts Fellow, a Lannan Foundation for the Humanities Fellow, a Lannan Foundation residency fellow, and a University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Great Plains Studies Fellow (flagship campus). She served as the Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English, as well as Associate Professor of Poetry & Creative Writing in the University of Nebraska's English Department (2007–2012) and University of Nebraska low-residency MFA program (2007–current).

She was visiting Artist of Central Oklahoma (2012-2014) and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Hawaii in Manoa (2014). She has also worked as a visiting writer for the University of California Riverside (2014) and Mount Pleasant, 2006, and the University of Sioux Falls. Hedge Coke, a founding faculty member of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing and Publishing (2015–), teaches for Oklahoma City University's Red Earth MFA (2016–) and is visiting faculty for Naropa University's Summer Writing Program. Since 2007, she has been directing the annual Literary Sandhill Crane Retreat in conjunction with her studies in migration patterning and impact on flyway communities. Hedge Coke, a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.

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Awards

• Witter Bynner Fellowship Appointed by the US Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, 2016.
• Winner: 2015 IPPY Award – Bronze Medal (Independent Publisher Book Awards)
• Four Pushcart Prize nominations in 2009 for work published in 2008.
• Fellow University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Great Plains Studies. 2008–current.
• South Dakota Arts Council Collaborative Grant in 2008–9.
• Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture. An Endowed Lecture. Association for the Sociology of Religion. Boston, MA. 2008.
• 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.
• King Chavez Parks Teaching Award Northern Michigan University. 2005.
• South Dakota Arts Council Artist Fellowship 2002.
• Excellence in Teaching Awards Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation. 2002 and 2004.
• South Dakota Arts Council Individual Artist Project Grants/Fellowships 1999, 2002.
• South Dakota Arts Council Artist in Residence 1998–current.
• Abiko Quarterly Editor's Choice Award. Cid Corman, Editor. 1995.