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ALLISON A. HEDGE COKE Huron, Cherokee poet/writer and MFA graduate of Vermont College, Allison A. Hedge Coke is The Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English and Associate Professor of English in Poetry and Writing at the University of Nebraska, Kearney. She is also a regular visiting professor in Naropa University's MFA summer writing program. The editor of six anthologies and author of Blood Run (2006), Dog Road Woman (American Book Award) and Off-Season City Pipe (Writer of the Year Award 2005), all poetry volumes, and a memoir, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (Book of the Month selection), her works of poetry and fiction have appeared extensively in anthologies and magazines. Hedge Coke intends to foster a new generation of writers and artists by sharing skills, craft, technique and to build confidence, encourage self-esteem and support writing and art as vehicles for communication, self-expression and growth. Hedge Coke has over twenty years of teaching experience in honors classes, special ed, gifted and talented programs and arts magnet schools. She has worked with migrant youth, reservation and urban Indian students, youth-at-risk, and emotionally disabled individuals at K-12, college, graduate and post-graduate levels. Grade levels: Pre-K-12 Contact Allison Hedge Coke, Paul and Clarice Reynolds Chair, Poetry and Creative Writing, English Department, University of Nebraska, Kearney, 905 W. 25th St.,
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