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dg nanouk okpik is an Inuit poet, specifically Iñupiaq . She received the American Book Award for her debut poetry collection, Corpse Whale (2012). In 2023 she was the recipient of a Windham Campbell Literature Prize for poetry[1] and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry .[2]
Education
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Born in Anchorage and raised by Irish/German adoptive parents, dg nanouk okpik has experienced some of the same hardships faced by other Indigenous women, including urban relocation, poverty, and disrupted access to her culture.[3] [4] She attended the University of Southern Maine , earning an MFA . She was the recipient of the Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship. She is also an alumna of the Institute of American Indian Arts .[5]
Career
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okpik is a resident advisor at the Santa Fe Indian School .[5] She received the American Book Award for her debut poetry collection, Corpse Whale , which was published in 2012 and received praise from critics.[6] In a review for Studies in American Indian Literatures , Jasmine Johnston described Corpse Whale as "both surreal and mythic", praising okpik's imagery and code-switching between Inuit and English.[7] Diego Báez, writing for Booklist , called it a "captivating debut" and similarly commended okpik's use of Inuit vocabulary.[8]
okpik's writing has been widely anthologized. Among collections including her is The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them by literary critic and poet Stephanie Burt .[9] Her poetry was also part of the collection Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke .[10] as well as Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing by the same author.[11]
She was awarded a Windham Campbell Prize for poetry in 2023.[12]
Awards
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Year
Text
Award
Result
2012
Corpse Whale
American Book Award
Won
2014
Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship
Won
2023
May Sarton Award
Won
Blood Snow
Pulitzer Prize
Won
Personal life
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She was raised in Anchorage, Alaska , and currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico .[5]
Published works
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Monographs
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Anthologies
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Selected poetry
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2009: "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
2012: "Cell Block on Chena River"
2012: "Warming"
2012: "If Oil is Drilled in Bristol Bay"
2012: "The Pact with Samna"
2012: "Little Brother and the Serpent Samna"
2018: "A Year Dot"
2018: "Necklaced Whalebone"
2018: "Found"
2020: "When White Hawks Come"
References
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^ "The 2023 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Poetry" . www.pulitzer.org . Retrieved 2023-05-09 .
^ "Dg nanouk okpik" . 27 November 2021.
^ McGlennen, Molly (2014). Creative Alliances: The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women's Poetry . Norman: U of Oklahoma Press. p. 153.
^ a b c "dg nanouk okpik" . Poetry Foundation . Retrieved November 6, 2021 .
^ "dg nanouk okpik" . Academy of American Poets . Retrieved November 6, 2021 .
^ Johnston, Jasmine (2013). "corpse whale by dg nanouk okpik (review)" . Studies in American Indian Literatures . 25 (4 ): 111–115. Retrieved November 6, 2021 .
^ Báez, Diego (October 1, 2012). "Corpse Whale" . Booklist . 109 (3 ). Retrieved November 6, 2021 .
^ Burt, Stephanie. The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
^ Hedge, Coke Allison Adelle. Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas. University of Arizona Press, 2012.
^ Corpse whale . Sun tracks: An American Indian literary series. University of Arizona Press. 2012. ISBN 9780816526741 .
^ "2023 Prize Recipients" . Windham Campbell Prizes 2023 . Windham Campbell Prizes. Retrieved April 21, 2023 .
External links
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R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dg_nanouk_okpik&oldid=1224517203 "
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