LeAnne Howe


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 and is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Howe's work has been published in various journals and anthologies. From publishing her novel Shell Shaker, Howe has received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award for 2002. In 2006, Howe's collection of poetry Evidence of Red won the Oklahoma Book Award.
In 2012, Howe was the recipient of a United States Artists Fellow award.
In 2015, Howe was awarded the first MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages for her second novel, a memoir titled Choctalking On Other Realities.

Education

LeAnne Howe attended Oklahoma State University in which she majored in English. Afterwards, Howe worked toward pursuing her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Norwich University in 2000. Over the next couple years, Howe's career decisions began to shift towards the academic world, and she began teaching, lecturing, and developing courses in Native American Studies at the University of Iowa as well as Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Career

Howe is an author, playwright, scholar, and poet. Born and educated in Oklahoma and a member of the Choctaw Nation, she primarily deals with Native American experiences within screenplays, and she also writes fiction, creative non-fiction, plays, and poetry. She has had the chance to read her pieces of fiction, and has lectured in Japan, Jordan, Israel, Romania, and Spain.

Books