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LeAnne Howe is a famous American author, playwright, and poet. She was born on April 29, 1951, and is a proud citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She is a special professor of English at the University of Georgia in Athens. LeAnne Howe writes amazing stories, plays, and poems that often explore the experiences of Native American people.

LeAnne Howe's Early Life and Learning

LeAnne Howe grew up in a Choctaw Nation family in Edmond, Oklahoma. She went to local schools there. Later, she studied English at Oklahoma State University.

Years later, LeAnne went back to college. In 2000, she earned a special advanced degree in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Norwich University. After that, she started teaching and giving talks about Native American Studies at different universities.

Her Amazing Career

LeAnne Howe is a talented author, playwright, scholar, and poet. She has written many screenplays for movies. She also writes fiction (made-up stories), creative non-fiction (true stories told in an interesting way), plays, and poetry.

She has shared her work by reading it aloud to audiences. She has also given talks in many countries, including Japan, Jordan, Israel, Romania, and Spain. LeAnne Howe's writings have appeared in many different magazines and collections of stories.

Awards and Special Recognitions

LeAnne Howe has won several important awards for her work:

• In 2002, she received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award. This was for her novel called Shell Shaker.
• In 2006, her collection of poems, Evidence of Red, won the Oklahoma Book Award.
• In 2012, she was given a United States Artists Fellow award. This is a special award for artists.
• In 2015, she won the first ever MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. This was for her second novel, Choctalking On Other Realities.

Her Wonderful Works

LeAnne Howe has written many books, plays, and even helped with films.

Books She Has Written

• Shell Shaker, 2001
• Evidence of Red: Poems and Prose, 2005
• Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story, 2007
• Seeing Red, Pixeled Skins, American Indians and Film, 2013
• Choctalking on Other Realities, 2013
• "Singing, Still, Libretto for the 1847 Choctaw Gift to the Irish for Famine Relief," (published in The Irish Times)
• Savage Conversations, 2019

Plays She Has Written

• The Mascot Opera (2008)
• Big PowWow
• Indian Radio Days (1998)

Films She Has Helped Make

• She helped edit Seeing Red, Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film, 2013.
• She helped produce Playing Pastimes: American Indian Fast-Pitch Softball, and Survival, 2007.
• She wrote the script and appeared on camera for Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire, 2006.

See also

• List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
• Native American Studies
• Native American dramatists and playwrights