Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 10/19/1955  Philadelphia
Parents: Gordon D. and Wilma Henry
Spouse: MaryAnne
Children: Kehli Ardis, Mira Ann, Emily Rose
Address(es):
Permanent:
14069 215th Ave.
Big Rapids, MI 49307
Permanent:
Department of English, 201 Morrill, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Contact Information:
Email: [email protected]

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	"The Silver Saxophone, Masks of Pain, and the People in the Hills" / in Bob seger's house and other stories / edited by Michael Delp and M.L. Liebler	Short Stories	Adult	Detroit : Wayne State University Press	2016
	Stories through theories/theories through stories : North American Indian writing, storytelling, and critique - Co-editor	Non Fiction	Adult	East Lansing : Michigan State University Press	2009
	The failure of certain charms, and other disparate signs of life	Poetry	Adult	Cambridge, England : Salt Publishing	2007
	The Light People : A Novel - Nominated for National Book Award	Fiction	Adult	East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press	1994
	Outside White Earth - Chapbook	Poetry	Adult	Marvin, S.D. : Blue Cloud Quarterly	1985
	Other writings: - Contributor to The Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, Stories Migrating Home, and North Dakota Quarterly

What is the aim or goal of your writing: Contemporary Authors says, "My writing tends to work within mythic communities and constructs, most of which come out of oral traditions of the Anishinabe (Ojibwa), family history, reinvented personal history, and imagined analogues. My writing also tends toward multi-genre experimentation with multiple narrative voices and mythic elements of time and space. The poetry I write relies on imagery and subdued rhythmic diction, and my fiction works through various literary forms and genres to open up possibilities for storytelling. That is, native oral trditions and lifeways have influenced my thinking, if not my writing style."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Name	Date
The Maxwell Anderson Alumni Award for outstanding achievement in arts and letters presented by the English Department, The University of North Dakota	1995
American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation for The Light People: A Novel	1995
Fulbright Lectureship	1994-1995
D'Arcy McNickle Memorial Fellowship, McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois	1986
Thomas McGrath Poetry Award, University of North Dakota	1985
North Country Poetry Award, The University of North Dakota	1985

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