Degrees:
M.F.A. University of Iowa Writers Workshop, Iowa City, Iowa, 1988
M.A. English, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma, 1983
B.A. English Literature, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 1964
Affiliation:
Faculty, Low-residency M.F.A. program, Carlow University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2018
University of Missour/Kansas City, Advanced Poetry, Fall 2017
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California, 2012-2014
Richard Thomas Professor, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, Spring Semesters, 2008-2009
Professor, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1988-2009
Edlestein-Keller Minnesota Writer of Distinction, University of Minnesota, 1998 Spring Quarter
Creative Nonfiction Mentor, The Loft, Minneapolis, 2006
Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota, Fiction Writing, Fall 2004
Native American Literature and The Writing of Fiction, New Mexico Campus of the M.A. Program, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury, Vermont, July 23-August 5, 1999
Native American Inroads Mentor, The Loft, Minneapolis, 1997
Artist-in-Residence, State Arts Council of Oklahoma, 1980-1986
Play Productions and Stagings:
Pushing the Bear, Native American New Play Festival, Oklahoma City Theatre Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, April 15, 2017
Lloyd and Hallah, Native American New Play Festival, Oklahoma City Theatre Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, April 9, 2016
Pushing the Bear, Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, November 21, 2015
Woods Lewis and a Grapefruit, Our Civil War Project, Monologues from 25 Playwrights, Arena Stage, Washington, D.C., October-November 9, 2014
The Origin of Law, 2013 Von Marie Atchley Prize, Short Play Competition, Autry National Center, Los Angeles
The Mask Maker, Two Worlds Theater Annual Staged Reading Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2013
The Bird House, Global Voices: Spring Staged Readings, Emory Universtiy, Atlanta, Georgia, February 6, 2015
The Bird House, March 1-17, 2013 Autry National Center, Los Angeles, California, The Colony, Missoula, Montanto, July, 2011, and Festival of New Plays, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego, California, June 4, 2011.
The Reason for Crows, Mixed Phoenix Theater Group, American Indian Community House, New York City, May 21, 2011
Salvage, Oklahoma City Theater, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 1-10, 2012
Salvage, Origins Festival, Riverside Studio, London, England, May 9-16, 2009
Salvage, Native Voices at the Autry, National Center of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, California, October 31-November 23, 2008
Salvage, Native American Festival Reading, Public Theater, New York City, December 6, 2007
Stone Heart: Everybody Loves a Journey West, Native Voices at the Autry, Autry National Center of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, California, February 17-March 13, 2006, Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York City, April 6-7, 2006, Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, The Mall, Washington, D.C., April 9-11, 2006
Jump Kiss, Native Voices at the Autry, Autry National Center of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, California, June 5-23, 2002
Mother of Mosquitos, University of Minnesota, Duluth, March 29, 2000
Lesser Wars, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, Voice and Visions Theatre Company and Red Road Productions, New York City, November 18-21, 1999
The Best Fancy Dancer the Pushmataha Pow Wow's Ever Seen, Geneva College Theatre, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, April 22-24, April 29-May 1, 1999
Jump Kiss, Raw Space, Sage Theater, New York, New York, January 22 and 23, 1999
The Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance and The Women Who Loved House Trailers, Raw Space, Sage Theater Company, New York, December 27 and 30, 1998, January 2, 3, and 4, 1999
The Women Who Loved House Trailers, Connelly Theater, Voice and Visions Theatre Company, New York City, February 16, 1998, and The Loft, Minneapolis, October 25, 1996
The Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance, New Dramatists, Mutt Rep Theater, New York City, September 14, 1995, The Walker Art Gallery, November 11, 1995, and American Indian Community House, New York City, December 7, 1995
Stick Horse, Borderlands Theater Play Festival Award, Tucson, Arizona, 1990, and the Aspen Summer Theater Award, Aspen, Colorado, 1988
The Lesser Wars, Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, 1989
Segwohi, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1987
Testimony, Heller Theater, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1987
Weebjob, American Indian Theater Company, Tulsa, 1987
Drama Books and Publications:
American Gypsy, a collection of six plays, American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series #45, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 2002
War Cries, a collection of nine plays, Holy Cow! Press, Duluth, Minnesota, 1996
The Sum of Winter, an electronic collection of short plays, www.alexanderstreet.com
Awards, Grants and Fellowships:
Willa Award, Women Writers of the West, 2016
Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, 2014
Expressive Arts Grant, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., 2009
MAP (Multi-Arts Production Grant, Creative Capital Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, 2007, for the development of Salvage)
Envision 2005 Retreat, Voice & Vision Theatre, Bard College
National Endowment for the Arts, 2003, 1990
Juniper Prize, University of Massachusetts Press, 2003
Oklahoma Book Award, 2003
Works-in-Progress Fellowship, Red Eye Theatre, Minneapolis, 2001
Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Nimrod Journal, University of Tulsa, 2001
Cherokee Medal of Honor, Cherokee Honor Society, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, 2001
Thomas Jefferson Teaching/Scholarship Award, Macalester College, 2001
Many Voices Playwriting Fellowship, Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, 2001, 1995
McKnight Artist Fellowship, Loft Award of Distinction for Creative Prose, 1999
Sundance Screenwriting Fellowship, U.C.L.A., 1998
Five Civilized Tribes Playwriting Laureate Prize, 1994-1996, 1988-1990, 1984-1986