# LeAnne Howe

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{{short description|American poet}}
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| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1951|4|29}}
| birth_place        = [Edmond, Oklahoma](/source/Edmond%2C_Oklahoma), U.S.
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* Playwright
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* Poet
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'''LeAnne Howe''' (born April 29, 1951, [Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma](/source/Choctaw_Nation_of_Oklahoma)) is an American author and Eidson Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the [University of Georgia](/source/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](/source/Edmond%2C_Oklahoma), and attended local schools as a child. She later attended [Oklahoma State University](/source/Oklahoma_State_University), where she majored in English. She is a [Choctaw Nation](/source/Choctaw_Nation) citizen.

Years later, Howe returned to studies, gaining a [Master of Fine Arts](/source/Master_of_Fine_Arts) degree in 2000 in [Creative Writing](/source/Creative_Writing) from [Vermont College](/source/Vermont_College) of [Norwich University](/source/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](/source/University_of_Iowa) and at [Carleton College](/source/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](/source/Before_Columbus_Foundation's_American_Book_Award) in 2002 for her novel ''[Shell Shaker](/source/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](/source/Evidence_of_Red)'' (Salt Publishing, UK 2005) won the [Oklahoma Book Award](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Shell_Shaker),'' [Aunt Lute Books](/source/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](/source/Salt_Publishing), UK, 2005
*''Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story,'' [Aunt Lute Books](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/List_of_writers_from_peoples_indigenous_to_the_Americas)
* [Native American Studies](/source/Native_American_Studies)
* [Native American dramatists and playwrights](/source/Native_American_dramatists_and_playwrights)

==References==
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==External links==
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* [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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