Allison Adelle Hedge Coke has authored six collections, most recently, Look At This Blue (Coffee House Press, 2022), a National Book Award finalist. Her collection, Streaming (Coffee House Press, 2014) won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas. She won an American Book Award for her debut collection Dog Road Woman (Coffee House Press, 1997). She is an award-winning editor of ten poetry anthologies, including Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas (University of Arizona Press, 2011) and Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing (Salt Publishing, 2009). She serves on several editorial boards, as well as on the board of Zoeglossia and Penny Candy Books. A literary activist, Hedge Coke works with incarcerated youth, underserved indigenous youth and elders, among others, and founded and directs the annual Honoring the Sandhill Crane Migration Literary Retreat and Festival on the Platte River.
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