Joan Kane
Encyclopedia
Life
Joan Kane is Inupiaq Eskimo, with family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, AlaskaMary's Igloo, Alaska
Mary's Igloo is an abandoned village located in Nome Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska.- Geography :Mary's Igloo is located at .Mary's Igloo is located on the northwest bank of the Kuzitrin River, on the Seward Peninsula...
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She graduated from Harvard College
Harvard College
Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...
and from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
with an M.F.A.
She lives in Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States...
with her husband and sons.
Awards
- 2004 John Haines Award from Ice Floe Press
- 2006 Walt Whitman Award semi-finalist by the Academy of American PoetsAcademy of American PoetsThe Academy of American Poets is a non-profit organization dedicated to the art of poetry. The Academy was incorporated as a "membership corporation" in New York State in 1934...
- 2007 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award
- 2009 Whiting Writers' AwardWhiting Writers' AwardThe Whiting Writers' 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 and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.-External links:**...
Works
- Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, NorthShore Press 2009.
- Due North, Columbia University, 2006