Education
She graduated from Harvard College and from Columbia University with an Master of Fine Arts
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Joan Kane
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She is 2014 Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at the School for Advanced Research
Joan Kane is Inupiaq Eskimo, with family from King Island and Mary"s Igloo, Alaska.
Achievements
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2004 John Haines Award from Ice Floe Press 2006 Walt Whitman Award semi-finalist by the Academy of American Poets 2007 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award 2009 Whiting Award 2009 National Native Creative Development Program Longhouse Education and Cultural Center Grantee 2010 Alaska Native Writers on the Environment Award 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry from AWP 2013 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship 2013 Rasmuson Foundation Artist Fellowship 2014 Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at School for Advanced Research 2014 American Book Award for Hyperboreal.
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Born
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United States
Education
Awards
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Whiting award; American Book award; Walt Whitman Award 2004 John Haines Award from Ice Floe Press 2006 Walt Whitman Award semi-finalist by the Academy of American Poets 2007 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award 2009 Whiting Award 2009 National Native Creative Development Program Longhouse Education and Cultural Center Grantee 2010 Alaska Native Writers on the Environment Award 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry from AWP 2013 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship 2013 Rasmuson Foundation Artist Fellowship 2014 Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at School for Advanced Research 2014 American Book Award for Hyperboreal Named after poet Walt Whitman, the award is based on a competition of book-length poetry manuscripts by American poets who have not yet published a book.Whiting award; American Book award; Walt Whitman Award 2004 John Haines Award from Ice Floe Press 2006 Walt Whitman Award semi-finalist by the Academy of American Poets 2007 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award 2009 Whiting Award 2009 National Native Creative Development Program Longhouse Education and Cultural Center Grantee 2010 Alaska Native Writers on the Environment Award 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry from AWP 2013 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship 2013 Rasmuson Foundation Artist Fellowship 2014 Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at School for Advanced Research 2014 American Book Award for Hyperboreal Named after poet Walt Whitman, the award is based on a competition of book-length poetry manuscripts by American poets who have not yet published a book.