Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's books include The Year of the Rat, Dog Road Woman, Off-Season City Pipe, Blood Run, Burn, Streaming, and Look at This Blue, as well as a memoir, Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer. She is the editor of the anthologies Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, Effigies, Effigies II and Effigies III and is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside. Hedge Coke came of age working fields, factories, and waters and is in-production with several documentary films with the project Along the Chaparral: memorializing the enshrined (Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration Legacy Program) and Red Dust: resiliency in the dirty thirties. She has served as an editor and guest editor for several magazines and journals, most recently World Literature Today.
Awards include the 2019 Fulbright Scholarship, First Jade Female Poetry Festival Sihui, China inaugural prize for Excellent Foreign Poet including honorary international credential, US Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow, Selected by US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, (2016), Lifetime Achievement Award NWCA, American Book Award, King*Chavez*Parks Award, Pen Southwest Poetry Award, IPPY Medal, Mayor's Award for Literary Excellence, National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Paul & Clarice Reynolds Chair in Creative Writing, University of Central Oklahoma Artist in Residence, the University of Hawaii Distinguished Visiting Writer residency, Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside, The Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals, University of Hawaii, Manoa, and was selected for an inaugural Tulsa Artist Fellowship for Writers.
