Discipline: Literature

LeAnne Howe

Discipline: Literature
Region: Cincinatti, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995

LeAnne Howe is an American author and Eidson Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, Athens. She previously taught American Indian studies and English at the University of Minnesota and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Howe received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 2002 for her novel Shell Shaker. Her collection of poetry, Evidence of Red (Salt Publishing, UK 2005), won the Oklahoma Book Award in 2006. In 2012, she was the recipient of a United States Artists Fellow award, and in 2013, she won the first MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages for her memoir titled Choctalking On Other Realities (Aunt Lute Books, 2013).

Studios

Schelling

LeAnne Howe worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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