Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Riverside, CA
California US
Email: 
allisonh@ucr.edu
Website: 
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Author's Bio

Allison Hedge Coke, labor and environmental poet, memoirist, fiction, & scriptwriter, has been an invitational performer in numerous US Festivals including Dodge, Princeton, Split This Rock, Tucson, Miami, and international festivals including in Argentina, Austria, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czcech Republic, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Montenegro, Portugal, Scotland, Sweden, The Netherlands, and Venezuela, a Fulbright in Montenegro and an foreign expert poet at Shandong University in Wei Hai, China. Fiction publications include: This Land Press, Konch, Best American Fiction, Black Renaissance Noire, and Bombay Gin. She came of age cropping tobacco and working fields, waters, and working in factories. Hedge Coke has taught various art, theater, music, creative writing, literature, cultural philosophy, education, for pre-school, K-12, university & master classes. Hedge Coke directs the Literary Sandhill Cranefest, UCR Writers Week & Along the Chaparral. 18 books include (Poetry) Look at This Blue (2022), Burn (2019), Streaming (2014), Blood Run (2006 UK/2007 US), Off-Season City Pipe (2005), Dog Road Woman (1997), The Year of the Rat (1993), (memoir) Rock Ghost, Willow Deer (2014 paperback) (2004 hard cover), a play, Icicles, and several anthologies, including Effigies I, II, & III, Sing, Ahani....

Education: 
Vermont College of Fine Arts–Writing MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
MacDowell
Literary agent: 
Erika Stevens, Salky Literary Management

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthologies:
(Editor) They Wanted Children (SFSD Press, 2004)
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(Editor) Coming to Life (SFSD Press, 2002)
Books:
Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (paperback) (Bison Books, 2014)
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Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (hardcover) (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)
Journal:
Kenyon Review

Fiction

Journals:
American Fiction
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Black Renaissance Noire
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Bombay Gin
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Florida Review
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Gargoyle Magazine
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Gatherings
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South Dakota Review

Poetry

Anthologies:
Effigies II (editor) (Salt Publishing, 2014)
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Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas (Editor) (University of Arizona Press, 2011)
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Effigies (Editor)) (Salt Publishing, 2009)
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(Editor) Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry/To Topos Intl (Poetry Enterprises, 2006)
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(Editor) It's Not Quiet Anymore (Institute for American Indian Arts, 1993)
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(Co-Editor) Voices of Thunder (Institute for American Indian Arts, 1992)
Books:
Look at This Blue (Coffee House Press, 2022)
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Effigies III (Salt Publishing, 2019)
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Effigies III (Salt, 2019)
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Burn (MadHat Press, 2017)
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Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (paperback version) (Bison Books, 2014)
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Streaming (Coffee House Press, 2014)
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Blood Run (Salt, 2007)
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Off-Season City Pipe (Coffee House Press, 2005)
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Dog Road Woman (Coffee House Press, 1997)
Chapbook:
The Year of the Rat (Grimes Press, 1995)
Prizes won: 

Honors include: 2023 Thomas Wolfe Prize, 2022-2023 Mellon Dean's Professorship, 2021-2022 California Arts Council Legacy Artist Fellowship, 2021 AWP George Garrett Award, 2021 induction Texas Institute of Letters, 2020 Dan & Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals at the University of Hawai‘i, 2019 Fulbright in Montenegro, 2018 First Jade Female Poetry Festival Sihui China Excellent Foreign Poet, 2017 Pen SW Award, 2016 US Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow, American Book Award, Lifetime Achievement Award NWCA, Woodcrafter of the Year, WCNWS, IPPY Award, Distinguished Writer in Residence, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, an Artist in Residence University of Central Oklahoma, a former National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor, Reynolds Chair, was awarded a King-Chavez-Parks Award, Sioux Falls Mayor's Award for Literary Excellence, Paul Hanly Furfey Lecturer; Great Plains Fellow, Black Earth Institute, Weymouth Center, Playa at Summer Lake, MacDowell, Hawthornden Castle, Atlantic Center for the Arts; 2 Writer of the Year Awards; 2 Editor of the Year Awards, a National Literary Mentor of the Year Award; was a Visiting Professor at Shandong University; Delegate, United Nations Women in Peacemaking Conference; Speaker/Facilitator UN Lit Panels; Charlie and Thelma Willis Memorial Award Editor’s Choice, Abiko Quarterly International, Japan; New Mexico Press Women’s Association Writing Award; Zora Neale Hurston Award; Naropa Poetry Prize; Multiple State, Regional, and Local fellowships/grants/awards... Zoeglossia member.

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Last update: Jan 28, 2024