Joan Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane
Kane reading at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, Georgetown University, in 2014
Kane reading at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, Georgetown University, in 2014
BornJoan Marie Kane
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard College;
Columbia University
GenrePoet, novelist

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.

  1. ^ "Lines from the north: Poet and novelist Joan Naviyuk Kane". The New Mexican. February 13, 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  2. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Joan Naviyuk Kane". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2018-10-11.