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CREDIT ADRIANNE MATHIOWETZ
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CREDIT ADRIANNE MATHIOWETZ
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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke came of age working fields, factories, waters. A sharecropper by her mid-teens, working manual labor until retraining for former fieldworkers nearing thirty years of age, when disabilities precluded continuation. For the past thirty years, she’s worked in literary activism, intervention, and bibliotherapy/narrative medicine.
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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke came of age working in fields, factories, and waters. A labor and environmental poet, with mixed descendance, Hedge Coke was a sharecropper by the time she was mid-teens and continued manual labor until retraining for former fieldworkers nearing thirty years of age, after disabilities precluded continuation. Alli
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke came of age working in fields, factories, and waters. A labor and environmental poet, with mixed descendance, Hedge Coke was a sharecropper by the time she was mid-teens and continued manual labor until retraining for former fieldworkers nearing thirty years of age, after disabilities precluded continuation. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke teaches for UC Riverside, and is the author/editor of 18 books, including Look at This Blue, Burn, Streaming, Blood Run, Off-Season City Pipe, Dog Road Woman, The Year of the Rat, Effigies I, II, & III, Ahani, and Sing.
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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is a Legacy Artist Fellow (California Arts Council) and a recent George Garrett Award recipient (AWP, 2021). Other awards include a King-Chavez-Parks Awardee, Fulbright, First Jade Nurtured Sihui (China) Female International Foreign Poetry Award, U.S. Library of Congress Witter Bynner fellowship, National Book Aw
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is a Legacy Artist Fellow (California Arts Council) and a recent George Garrett Award recipient (AWP, 2021). Other awards include a King-Chavez-Parks Awardee, Fulbright, First Jade Nurtured Sihui (China) Female International Foreign Poetry Award, U.S. Library of Congress Witter Bynner fellowship, National Book Award Finalist, Emory Elliott Book Award, and an American Book Award. Hedge Coke’s books include The Year of the Rat, Dog Road Woman, Off-Season City Pipe, Blood Run, Burn, Streaming, Look at This Blue: an assemblage poem (book length, 2022), as well as a memoir, Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer (2014, paperback), and a play Icicles. The social media hashtag #poempromptsforthepandemic hosts hundreds of original prompts she crafted as public outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hedge Coke teaches creative writing and narrative medicine at the University of California, on Cahuilla, Serrano, and Tongva lands in Riverside (UCR). Hedge Coke came of age working fields, factories, and waters and is currently at work on a film, Red Dust: resiliency in the dirty thirties. She has been granted a Dean Mellon's Professorship for 2022-2023 at UCR.
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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is a Legacy Artist Fellow (California Arts Council) and recent awards include the George Garrett Award (AWP, 2021), Fulbright Scholar, First Jade Nurtured Sihui (China) Female International Foreign Poetry Award, a U.S. Library of Congress Witter Bynner fellowship, the Emory Elliott Book Award, and a 2022 Nationa
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is a Legacy Artist Fellow (California Arts Council) and recent awards include the George Garrett Award (AWP, 2021), Fulbright Scholar, First Jade Nurtured Sihui (China) Female International Foreign Poetry Award, a U.S. Library of Congress Witter Bynner fellowship, the Emory Elliott Book Award, and a 2022 National Book Award Finalist Medal. Hedge Coke’s books include The Year of the Rat, Dog Road Woman, Off-Season City Pipe, Blood Run, Burn, Streaming, Look at This Blue: an assemblage poem (book length, 2022), as well as a memoir, Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer (2014, paperback), and a play Icicles. The social media hashtag #poempromptsforthepandemic hosts hundreds of original prompts she crafted as public outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hedge Coke teaches creative writing and narrative medicine at the University of California, on Cahuilla, Serrano, and Tongva lands in Riverside (UCR).
Look at This Blue https://coffeehousepress.org/products/look-at-this-blue
Burn https://madhat-press.com/products/burn-by-allison-adelle-hedge-coke
National Book Awards
NBA Red Carpet with Hazel HedgeCoke
NBA Red Carpet with Hazel HedgeCoke
NBA Red Carpet with Hazel HedgeCoke
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National Book Foundation
National Book Awards
National Book Awards
NBA Red Carpet with Hazel HedgeCoke
NBA Red Carpet with Hazel HedgeCoke
Evan Agostini, photographer AP
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s most recent honors include 2022, finalist, National Book Award, 2022-2023 Emory Elliott Book Award, 2021 Texas Institute of Letters induction, the 2021 AWP George Garrett Award, a 2021-2022 Legacy Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council, and the 2022-2023 UCR Dean’s Mell
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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s most recent honors include 2022, finalist, National Book Award, 2022-2023 Emory Elliott Book Award, 2021 Texas Institute of Letters induction, the 2021 AWP George Garrett Award, a 2021-2022 Legacy Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council, and the 2022-2023 UCR Dean’s Mellon Professorship. An American Book Award winning author and 2016 Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow, she is a a 2022-2023 Dean's Mellon Professor and a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing for the University of California Riverside, where she directs UCR Writers Week Festival and is affiliated faculty (narrative medicine) for the UCR School of Medicine and the new department of Society, Health Equity, and Sustainability. Her eighth authored book is Look at This Blue (Coffee House Press, 2022) and tenth edited book is Effigies III.
