Event overview
An evening with LeAnne Howe, 2012 Ford Fellow, Professor of Rhetoric and American Indian artist
LeAnne Howe is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She will be reading from her new collection of prose and criticism, Choctalking on Other Realities (copies of the book will be available for sale on the night). Howe writes fiction, poetry, screenplays, creative non-fiction, plays and scholarship that primarily deal with American Indian experiences. Her short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Fiction International, Callaloo, Story, Yalobusha Review, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere.
A USA Ford Fellow from the United States Artists organization in 2012, Howe also received a Distinguished William J. Fulbright Scholarship in 2011, and lived in Amman, Jordan during the Arab Spring. While there, she taught at the University of Jordan and researched a new novel set in 1913-1917, and the present. The story journeys from Allen, Oklahoma to Ottoman Beirut, to the Arab Revolt, to post-Ottoman Transjordan.
Howe's first novel Shell Shaker (Aunt Lute Books, 2001) received an American Book Award in 2002 from the Before Columbus Foundation. The novel was a finalist for the 2003 Oklahoma Book Award, and awarded Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year, 2002. Equinoxes Rouge, the French translation, was the 2004 finalist for Prix Medici Estranger, one of France's top literary awards. Evidence of Red (Salt Publishing, UK, 2005) won the Oklahoma Book Award for poetry in 2006, and the Wordcraft Circle Award for 2006.
Places are limited, so please write to Padraig Kirwan to book.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Oct 2013 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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