Joan Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane
Kane reading at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, Georgetown University, in 2014
Born	Joan Marie Kane
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard College; Columbia University
Genre	Poet, novelist
Website
thejoankane.com

Joan Naviyuk Kane is an Inupiaq American poet. In 2014, Kane was the Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at the School for Advanced Research. ^[1] She was also a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. Kane was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. ^[2] She has faculty appointments in the English departments of Harvard College, Tufts University, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and most recently, Reed College.

Life

Joan Kane is Inupiaq, having family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. She graduated from Harvard College with a BA and earned an M.F.A from Columbia University. ^[3]

She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her two children. As of 2023 ^[update] , Kane serves as the Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. ^[4]

Awards

• 2004 (2004): John Haines Award from Ice Floe Press
• 2006 (2006): Walt Whitman Award semi-finalist by the Academy of American Poets
• 2007 (2007): Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award ^[5]
• 2009 (2009): Whiting Award ^[6]
• 2009 (2009): National Native Creative Development Program Longhouse Education and Cultural Center Grantee ^[7]
• 2010 (2010): Alaska Native Writers on the Environment Award ^[8]
• 2012 (2012): Donald Hall Prize in Poetry from AWP ^[9]
• 2013 (2013): Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship ^[10]
• 2013 (2013): Rasmuson Foundation Artist Fellowship ^[11]
• 2014 (2014): Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at School for Advanced Research ^[12]
• 2014 (2014): American Book Award for Hyperboreal
• 2016 (2016): Tuttle Creative Residency
• 2016 (2016): Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award
• 2016 (2016): Aninstantia Foundation Artist Award
• 2017 (2017): Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship
• 2018 (2018): John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship ^[13]
• 2019 (2019): Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Fellowship ^[14]
• 2023 (2023): Paul Engle Prize ^[15]

Works

• "Insomnia at North", AGNI, 3/2006
• Due North, Columbia University, 2006
• Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, NorthShore Press, 2009, ISBN   9780979436529; University of Alaska Press, 2012, ISBN   9781602231573
• Hyperboreal. University of Pittsburgh Press. October 21, 2013. ISBN   978-0-8229-7914-2.
• Milk Black Carbon. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2017. ISBN   978-0-8229-6451-3
• The Straits. Voices from the American Land, 2015. V.4, Issue 2
• A Few Lines in the Manifest. Albion Books. 14 May 2018.
• Sublingual. Finishing Line Press. 2 November 2018. ISBN   978-163534769-2
• Another Bright Departure. CutBank Books. March 2019. ISBN   978-1-9397-1730-6.
• Dark Traffic. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2021. ISBN   978-0-8229-6662-3
• Ex Machina, Staircase Books. 7 June 2023. ISBN   9781960769008
• Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic. Wesleyann University Press. 2024. ISBN   9780819501882

Play

• The Gilded Tusk, won the Anchorage Museum script contest ^[16]

In Anthology

• Best American Poetry, Simon & Schuster, 2015.
• Monticello in Mind, University of Virginia Press, 2016. ISBN   978-0813938509
• Read America(s). Locked Horns Press, 2016. ISBN   978-0990359920
• Syncretism and Survival, Forums on Poetics. Locked Horns Press, 2017. ISBN   978-0990359937
• Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press, 2018. ISBN   9780820353159
• The Poem's Country: Place and Poetic Practice. 2018. Pleiades Press. ISBN   978-0-9970994-1-6

See also

• Joan Naviyuk Kane on Wikiquote - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joan_Naviyuk_Kane

References

1. "Lines from the north: Poet and novelist Joan Naviyuk Kane". The New Mexican. February 13, 2014. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
2. "Meet our Fellows - Guggenheim Foundation". www.gf.org. Retrieved October 8, 2025.
3. "Joan Kane". Poetry Foundation. March 1, 2019. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
4. "Joan Naviyuk Kane". Reed College Faculty Profiles. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
5. "Past Grantmaking". Rasmuson Foundation. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
6. "Inupiaq poet wins Whiting Award". Anchorage Daily News. October 29, 2009. Retrieved October 9, 2025.
7. "National Native Creative Development Program Longhouse Education and Cultural Center Grantees for Funding Year 2009" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
8. "Meet the 2010 Winners | Alaska Conservation Foundation". alaskaconservation.org. Archived from the original on March 25, 2011.
9. "Winners of the 2012 AWP Award Series". Archived from the original on October 1, 2013.
10. "2013 NACF Artist Fellowships | Native Arts and Cultures Foundation". www.nativeartsandcultures.org. Archived from the original on April 15, 2014.
11. "Rasmuson Foundation Press Release - Rofkar named Distinguished Artist". Archived from the original on January 22, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
12. "The School for Advanced Research".
13. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Joan Naviyuk Kane". www.gf.org. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
14. "Joan Naviyuk Kane".
15. "PAUL ENGLE DAY AND PRIZE". Iowa City of Literature. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
16. "Green Room : 2 short plays turn history into 'Gold' at Anchorage Museum | adn.com". Archived from the original on July 15, 2009. Retrieved October 31, 2009.

External links

• Kane's Website
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• The Cormorant Hunter's Wife website
• Dana Jennings (November 14, 2013). "Poems Against Loss: Joan Naviyuk Kane Talks About 'Hyperboreal'". The New York Times.
• NPR Staff (June 21, 2013). "Ghost Island Looms Large Among Displaced Inupiat Eskimos". NPR.