LeAnne Howe (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), author of fiction, poetry,
screenplays, creative non-fiction, plays, and scholarly articles, is the winner
of the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the
Americas. A well respected and honored author, LeAnne Howe’s books include Shell
Shaker (2001), winner of an American Book
Award in 2002 from the Before Columbus Foundation; Equinoxes
Rouge, the French translation of Shell
Shaker, a 2004 finalist for Prix Medici
Estranger, (one of France’s top literary awards); Evidence
of Red (2005), winner of an Oklahoma Book
Award in Poetry and Wordcraft Circle Award in 2006; and Howe’s most recent
novel, the acclaimed Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story (2007) was the 2009-2010 Read-In Selection at Hampton
University in Hampton Virginia.
Howe is screenwriter and on-camera narrator for the 90-minute PBS documentary Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire (2006); she is also writer/co-producer of Playing Pastime: American Indian Fast-Pitch Softball and Survival, both documentaries with James Fortier (a three-time Emmy award winner filmmaker). Her scholarly work has appeared in Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies (2001), Pre-removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths (2008) and Reasoning Together: Native Critics Collective (2008), for which Howe is listed as a co-author. Reasoning Together was named one of the most influential Native texts of the first decade of the 21st century.
In 2010-11, Howe was a J. William Fulbright Scholar at the University of Jordan, Amman, where she taught in the graduate program as well as conducted research for a new novel. In March 2011, she was awarded the Tulsa Library Trust’s “American Indian Author Award” in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education named Howe one of 30 American Indians authors to celebrate during Native American Heritage Month, November 2011. Additionally, Howe’s multi-genre autobiographical and scholarly prose essay, “My Mothers, My Uncles, Myself” appears in Here
First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers (2001), and her scholarly work on Tribalography[1] (a term she coined) has found traction with other literary critics in the field such as professors Dean Rader, Jill Doerfler, Joseph Bauerkemper, among
others.
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