A Field Guide to Contemporary Indigenous Literature

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: JOAN KANE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Joan Naviyuk Kane is an Inupiaq poet, writer and language activist. She is the author of Another Bright Departure (CutBank, 2019), Milk Black Carbon (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), Hyperboreal (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), and The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife (NorthShore Press, 2009). Her honors include the Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ Donald Hall Prize and a Whiting Writers’ Award. Kane has taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts and was a Hilles Bush Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

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