Courses
CREATIVE WRITING 404: ADVANCED NARRATIVE WRITING
Teaching Interests
Fiction writing. American Indian Literature. Native Theater. Native Film.
Specializations
Fiction, poetry, plays. American Indian Literature. Native Theater. Native Film. Screenwriting.
Publications
Shell Shaker (novel, 2001); Équinoxes Rouges (novel) Roucher, Collection Nuage Rouge, Paris France 200, Prix Medici Award Finalist, and Evidence of Red (poetry, short fiction, 2005); “Indians in the Act: Native Theater Past and Present” (2004). Co-authored with Craig Howe, Harvey Markowitz, Dean Rade. SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures 16.1; “The Story of America: A Tribalography” in Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies, Routledge Press, Nancy Shoemaker, Editor. (2001). Chapter argues that narratives, whether classified as mythological, scientific, historical or fictional, share the power to create truths to live by and through which members of specific cultural groups see the world. ; Film: Spiral of Fire, PBS 90 minute documentary airing 2006.
Work in Progress
Miko Kings, (novel) forthcoming, Aunt Lute Books, SF; PLAYING PASTIME: American Indians, Softball, and Survival, a 90-minute documentary. Co-producer, James Fortier. In production.; “Blind Bread and the Business of Theorymaking By Embarrassed Grief as Told by LeAnne Howe.” The essay is for an anthology on Native literary criticism. Craig Womack, Editor. Anthology at press under consideration.; "The Bases Are Loaded: American Indians and American Studies, It’s Not Just a Game!" co-authored with Carter Meland, Heidi Stark, Joseph Bauerkemper. Essay at press under consideration.; Seeing Red: American Indians in the Cinema. The volume is a compilation of movie reviews and essays written by tribal and non-Indian historians, anthropologists, and authors on movies whose plots involve Indians in significant ways. Edited by LeAnne Howe and Harvey Markowitz. Book proposal at press, under consideration.
Film Clip
Video Trailer for "Playing Pastime" (WMV)
Video Trailer for "Playing Pastime" (RealMedia)
Links to Leanne Howe on Other Sites
Storytellers Native American Authors Online
VG: Voices from the Gaps Women Artists and Writers of Color, An International Website
2004 Prix Medici Award
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