Joan Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane is an Inupiaq American poet. In 2014, Kane was the Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at the School for Advanced Research. She was also a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. Kane was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. She has faculty appointments in the English departments of Harvard College, Tufts University, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and most recently, Reed College.

Life Joan Kane is Inupiaq, having family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. She graduated from Harvard College with a BA and earned an M.F.A from Columbia University.

She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her two children. , Kane serves as the Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Awards

Works "Insomnia at North", AGNI, 3/2006 Due North, Columbia University, 2006 Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, NorthShore Press, 2009, ; University of Alaska Press, 2012,

Milk Black Carbon. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2017. The Straits. Voices from the American Land, 2015. V.4, Issue 2 A Few Lines in the Manifest. Albion Books. 14 May 2018. Sublingual. Finishing Line Press. 2 November 2018. Another Bright Departure. CutBank Books. March 2019. . Dark Traffic. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2021. Ex Machina, Staircase Books. 7 June 2023. Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic. Wesleyann University Press. 2024. with snow pouring southward past the window. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2026. .

Play The Gilded Tusk, won the Anchorage Museum script contest

In Anthology Best American Poetry, Simon & Schuster, 2015. Monticello in Mind, University of Virginia Press, 2016. Read America(s). Locked Horns Press, 2016. Syncretism and Survival, Forums on Poetics. Locked Horns Press, 2017. Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press, 2018. The Poem's Country: Place and Poetic Practice. 2018. Pleiades Press.