Howe, LeAnne 1951-

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HOWE, LeAnne 1951-

PERSONAL:

Born April 19, 1951, in OK. Ethnicity: "American Indian." Education: Vermont College, M.F.A., 2000.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of American Studies, Grinnell College, P.O. Box 805, Grinnell, IA 50112. E-mail—Lhowe1@aol.com or howe@grinnell.edu.

CAREER:

Newspaper journalist in and around Dallas and Fort Worth, TX, 1977-89; University of Iowa, Iowa City, team teacher of American Indian and native studies, 1992, 1994, 1995, international media producer, 1994-95; Carleton College, Northfield, MN, visiting teacher of Native American literature, 1996-97; Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, visiting faculty member, 1997, lecturer in American studies, 1997—. WagonBurner Theater Troop, founder and director; gives readings from her works. Lecturer for Amideast and UNICEF in Amman Jordan, 1993-94; member, Governor of Iowa's Indian Advisory Committee, 1990-95. Also worked as government bond trader in New York, NY. Enrolled member of Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

MEMBER:

American Society for Ethnohistory, Circle of Native Writers of the Americas (founding member), Austin Writers League.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grants from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1991, 1995, and Okayama Buraku Liberation Research Institute (Tokyo, Japan), 1993; artist-in-residence, Iowa Arts Council, 1993; Native American intern, Smithsonian Institution, 1993; writer-in-residence, MacDowell Colony and Atlantic Center for the Arts, both 1995; resident, Ragdale Foundation, 1996; Indian Voices in the Academy fellow, Newberry Library, 1996.

WRITINGS:

Coyote Stories, 1984.

A Stand up Reader, 1987.

(And producer and director) Indian Radio Days (play), produced in Cedar Rapids, IA, at CSPS Theater, 1993.

Shell Shaker (novel), Aunt Lute Books (San Francisco, CA), 2001.

Author of plays produced in Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY. Work represented in anthologies, including Earth Song, Sky Spirit: An Anthology of Native American Writers, edited by Clifford Trafzer, 1993; Global Cultures: A Transnational Short Fiction Reader, 1994; Returning the Gift: An Anthology, 1994; Reinventing the Enemy's Language, edited by Joy Harjo, 1997; and Everything Matters: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, 1997. Contributor of articles, essays, and short stories to periodicals, including Fiction International, Callaloo, Nebraska English Journal, and Dallas Morning News.