{{short description|American poet}} {{Infobox person | name = LeAnne Howe | image = | image_size = | caption = LeAnne Howe | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|4|29}} | birth_place = Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. | occupation = {{flatlist| * Author * Playwright * Scholar * Poet }} }}
'''LeAnne Howe''' (born April 29, 1951, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is an American author and Eidson Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, Athens.<ref>{{cite web|title=LeAnne Howe|url=http://www.english.uga.edu/directory/people/leanne-howe|publisher=University of Georgia|access-date=16 February 2018|language=en}}</ref> She previously taught American Indian Studies and English at the University of Minnesota and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/leanne-howe|title=LeAnne Howe :Biography|website=Poetry Foundation|access-date=16 February 2018|language=en-us|date=16 February 2018}}</ref>
==Early life and education== LeAnne Howe was born into a Choctaw family in Edmond, Oklahoma, and attended local schools as a child. She later attended Oklahoma State University, where she majored in English. She is a Choctaw Nation citizen.
Years later, Howe returned to studies, gaining a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2000 in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Norwich University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LeAnne Howe {{!}} Department of English |url=https://www.english.uga.edu/directory/people/leanne-howe |access-date=2025-06-29 |website=www.english.uga.edu}}</ref> Over the next few years, she began to shift toward the academic world. She taught, lectured and developed courses in Native American Studies at the University of Iowa and at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/166229/Howe,%20LeAnne.pdf;sequence=1|title=LeAnne Howe|access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref>
==Career== Howe is an author, playwright, scholar, and poet. She has explored Native American experiences through writing screenplays. She has also written fiction, creative non-fiction, plays, and poetry. She has conducted public readings of her work, and has lectured in Japan, Jordan, Israel, Romania, and Spain.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A584|title=Native American Authors: LeAnne Howe|access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref>
Howe's work has been published in various journals and anthologies.<ref>{{Cite web|title=LeAnne Howe (Choctaw) – Searching for Sequoyah|url=http://searchingforsequoyah.com/team_member/leanne-howe-choctaw/|access-date=2018-05-09|website=searchingforsequoyah.com|date=3 September 2016 |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Honors and awards== She received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 2002 for her novel ''Shell Shaker''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Multicultural Women's Press {{!}} Queer Publishing {{!}} Aunt Lute Books|url=https://www.auntlute.com/leanne-howe|access-date=2018-05-09|website=Multicultural Women's Press {{!}} Queer Publishing {{!}} Aunt Lute Books|language=en}}</ref> In 2006, Howe's collection of poetry ''Evidence of Red'' (Salt Publishing, UK 2005) won the Oklahoma Book Award.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Squint|first=Kirstin L.|date=2010-09-19|title=Choctawan Aesthetics, Spirituality, and Gender Relations: An Interview with LeAnne Howe|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/394096|journal=MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.|language=en|volume=35|issue=3|pages=211–224|doi=10.1353/mel.2010.0009|issn=1946-3170|s2cid=162581881|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 2012, Howe was the recipient of a United States Artists Fellow award.<ref>[http://www.unitedstatesartists.org United States Artists Official Website]</ref> In 2015, Howe was awarded the first MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages for her second novel, titled ''Choctalking On Other Realities'' (Aunt Lute Books, 2013).<ref>{{Cite web|title=MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures,...|url=https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Honors-and-Awards/Winners-of-MLA-Prizes/Biennial-Prize-and-Award-Winners/MLA-Prize-for-Studies-in-Native-American-Literatures-Cultures-and-Languages|access-date=2018-05-09|website=Modern Language Association|language=en}}</ref>
==Books== *''Shell Shaker,'' Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, 2001<ref>{{Cite book|last=Monika|first=Siebert|title=Indians Playing Indian : Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America|publisher=University of Alabama Press|year=2015|isbn=978-0817387983|chapter=Fictions of the Gruesome Authentic in LeAnne Howe’s Shell Shaker}}</ref> *''Evidence of Red: Poems and Prose,'' Salt Publishing, UK, 2005 *''Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story,'' Aunt Lute Books, 2007 *''Seeing Red, Pixeled Skins, American Indians and Film'', Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, MI, 2013 *''Choctalking on Other Realities,'' Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, 2013 *"Singing, Still, Libretto for the 1847 Choctaw Gift to the Irish for Famine Relief," ''The Irish Times''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mikokings.wordpress.com/|title=On the Prairie Diamond: The Weblog of LeAnne Howe|website=On the Prairie Diamond: The Weblog of LeAnne Howe|language=en|access-date=2019-03-09}}</ref> *''Savage Conversations'', Coffee House Press, 2019
==Plays== *''The Mascot Opera'' (Alexander Street Press, 2008) *''Big PowWow'' *''Indian Radio Days (Theatre C. G.,1998)''
==Films== * Co-editor with Harvey Markowitz, and Denise K. Cummings, ''Seeing Red, Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film'', 2013 *Co-producer with James Fortier for ''Playing Pastimes: American Indian Fast-Pitch Softball, and Survival,'' 2007<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/LAHowe/|title=LeAnne Howe|website=www.hanksville.org|access-date=2019-03-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.visionmakermedia.org/bios/leanne-howe|title=LeAnne Howe {{!}} Vision Maker Media|website=www.visionmakermedia.org|access-date=2019-03-09}}</ref> *Screenwriter and on-camera narrator for ''Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire'', 2006
==See also== * List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas * Native American Studies * Native American dramatists and playwrights
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Wikiquote}} * [http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/LAHowe/ Official LeAnne Howe site] *https://mikokings.wordpress.com * [http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/howe_leanne.html Voices from the Gap]
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