Published on February 22, 2013 by Amy
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (born August 4, 1958) is an American Book Award-winning American/Canadian poet of mixed Wendat/Huron/Metis/Tsalagi/ Creek/French Canadian/Portuguese/Irish/Scot/English ancestry. Biographical information from Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer cite page of memoir.
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Hedge Coke was born in Texas and grew up and came of age in North Carolina, Canada, and on the Great Plains. Her early adult life was also spent in North Carolina until she was 27. Biographical information from Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer cite page of memoir
Hedge Coke is a former National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor/Writer appointment for Hartwick College, an original fellow of the Black Earth Institute Think-Tank, a MacDowell Colony for the Arts Fellow, a Hawthorden Castle Fellow, a Soul Mountain Fellow, a Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities Fellow, a current University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Great Plains Study Fellow {flagship campus}, 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 at Kearney. University of Nebraska Biographical Information Link for Endowed Chair
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