Choctalking on Other Realities
LeAnne Howe is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation and writes fiction, poetry, screenplays, creative non-fiction, plays, and scholarship that primarily deal with American Indian experiences. In 2012, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. Her short fiction has appeared inKenyon Review, Fiction International, Callaloo, Story, Yalobusha Review, Cimarron Review, Platte Valley Review,and elsewhere, and has been translated in France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark. Her first novel,Shell Shakerreceived an American Book Award in 2002 from the Before Columbus Foundation.Equinoxes Rouge,the French translation, was the 2004 finalist for Prix Medici Estranger, one of France’s top literary awards.. Howe’s most recent novel isMiko Kings: An Indian Baseball Storywas the Hampton University’s Read-In-Selection for 2009-2010. In 2011, Howe was award the Tulsa Library Trust Award for her work as an American Indian writer in Tulsa, Oklahoma.