LeAnne Howe

LeAnne Howe is an American author and Eidson Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, Athens. An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Howes work has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies. Her book Shell Shaker received the Before Columbus Foundations American Book Award for 2002. Evidence of Red, a collection of poetry, Salt Publishing, UK 2005 won the Oklahoma Book Award in 2006. Her second novel, Miko Kings An Indian Baseball Story was published in 2007 by Aunt Lute Books. Seeing Red Pixeled Skins American Indians and Film, Michigan State University Press 2013, an anthology of film essays on American Indians in movies is coedited with Harvey Markowitz and Denise K. Cummings. Her latest book, a memoir titled Choctalking On Other Realities and was awarded the first the MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Language in 2015.

Howe is an author, playwright, scholar, and poet. Born and educated in Oklahoma, she writes fiction, creative nonfiction, plays, poetry, and screenplays that primarily deal with American Indian experiences. She has read her fiction and has lectured in Japan, Jordan, Israel, Romania, and Spain. Founder and director of WagonBurner Theatre Troop, her plays have been produced in Los Angeles, New York City, New Mexico, Maine, Texas, and Colorado.

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