Joan Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane

reading at Lannan Center, 2014
Nationality American
Ethnicity Inupiaq
Alma mater Harvard College;
Columbia University
Genre Poet, novelist

Joan Naviyuk Kane is an Inupiaq American poet. She is 2014 Indigenous Writer-in-Residence at the School for Advanced Research.[1] She is a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Life

Joan Kane is Inupiaq Eskimo, with family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. She graduated from Harvard College and from Columbia University with an M.F.A.

She lives in Anchorage, Alaska with her husband and sons.

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