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Joan Kane

Joan Kane is Inupiaq Eskimo, with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo. She is the author of The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, a poetry collection available from NorthShore Press in November 2009. She has received the John Haines award from ICE-FLOE Press, an individual artist award from the Rasmuson Foundation, and won the Anchorage Museum theater script contest for her play, The Gilded Tusk. She was selected as a semi-finalist for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and was a 2009 finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and her MFA from Columbia University. Current projects include coordinating the work of Alaska Native writers for the “Virtual Subsistence” exhibit and series at the MTS Gallery and the Alaska Native Arts Foundation. Along with her husband and son, and a baby due in February, she lives in Anchorage, Alaska, where she works as a consultant to Alaska Native village corporations and communities.