Allison Hedge Coke was born in the Cherokee nation on August 4, 1958.
She is the author of the American Book Award-winning debut collection Dog Road Woman and the memoir Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. Growing up in North Carolina, Canada, and throughout the Great Plains, she holds The Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English, and is an Associate Professor of Poetry & Creative Writing in the English Department of the University of Nebraska, Kearney.
She is currently editing two new anthologies: Working Clans, a collection of writing representing Native work ethic and contemporary labors, and Radio Wave Mama, a collection of work from writers whose parents suffer mental illness.
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