Carolyn Dunn
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Carolyn Dunn, Creek/Seminole/Cherokee/Choctaw author & musician
Carolyn Dunn, BA, MA, is a wife, mother, daughter, poet, playwright, journalist, teacher, fiction writer, and catechist born in Southern California. She is an American Indian artist of Cherokee, Muskogee Creek, and Seminole descent on her father's side, and is Cajun, French Creole, and Tunica-Biloxi on her mother's. Primarily a poet and a playwright, she is also a former radio producer and host whose work appeared on National Native News and does voice-overs for film and television. Currently, she is co-host of American Indian Airwaves (Coyote Radio) for KPFK-FM in Los Angeles
Carolyn's academic work has primarily focused on landscape in American Indian women's literature (poetry, prose, and drama), and urban American Indian identity formation in California. She has taught at Humboldt State University, Four Winds Indian School in Chico, California, and California Polytechnic State University, Pomona. She is the founding director (with Tina Toledo Rizzo) of the American Indian Theatre Collective. Currently pursuing a PhD from USC where she is an Irvine Fellow, she is a member of the all woman Native drum group The Mankillers, whose cd's All Woman Northern Drum and Comin to Getcha! were released on Without Rez Records, and the indigenous rock band Red Hawk. In 2002, the group released a third cd, Killing You Softly, on their own label, MK Records.
In addition to her academic work, Carolyn also sits on the board of directors for Red Nation Celebration, a California non-profit organization that produces media events, such as Red Nation Celebration, that raise money and awareness for American Indian issues and concerns surrounding children and elders across Native America. Carolyn also serves on the Advisory Board of the Interstitial Arts Foundation a group of artists and writers celebrating genre crossing borders in literature and art.
She lives with her husband, James Anderson (Choctaw) and their children in Southern California. Carolyn also has a personal website and blog.
Writing available online
Coyote and Pele from The Endicott Studio
Outfoxing Coyote from The Endicott Studio'
Coyote Tears from The Endicott Studio
Deer Woman from The Endicott Studio
Charm Song for Hunting a Deer from The Endicott Studio
Carolyn's contributions to Vol. 8 of The Other Voices International Project
Awards
Carolyn was named 2002 Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year in Creative Writing: Poetry for Outfoxing Coyote, and 2002 Wordcraft Circle Publisher of the Year in Small Press for That Painted Horse Press.
Books by Carolyn Dunn
Coyote Speaks, Abrams, 2008
Echo Location, That Painted Horse Press, 2008
Hidden Creek Journal, Coyotesse Books, 2000
Outfoxing Coyote, That Painted Horse Press, 2002.
Hozho: Walking In Beauty, co-editor (with Paula Gunn Allen), Contemporary Books/McGraw-Hill, 2001
Through the Eye of the Deer, co-editor (with Carol Zitzer-Comfort), Aunt Lute Books, 1999.
Plays by Carolyn Dunn
Ghost Dance, Los Angeles Theater Project, March 2006. Calysta Watson, Artistic Director.
The Frybread Queen, Native Voices at The Autry, June, 2007.
Anthologies
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (editors), Charles Vess (illustrator), Viking.
Cultural Representation and Contestation in Native America, Andrew Jolivette (editor), AltaMira Press.
Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust, MariJo Moore (Editor), Thunder's Mouth Pr.
Unnatural Disaster: Reflections and Prospects, John Brown Childs (Editor), The New Pacific Press.
Reading Native American Women: Critical/Creative Representations, Ines Hernandez-Avila (Editor), Altamira Pr.
Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, editors, Charles Vess, illustrator, Viking.
Hozho: Walking In Beauty, co-editor (with Paula Gunn Allen), Contemporary Books/McGraw-Hill.
Through the Eye of the Deer, co-editor (with Carol Zitzer-Comfort), Aunt Lute Books.
Reinventing the Enemy's Language : Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America, (Editors Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird), W.W. Norton.
Sing With the Heart of A Bear: Fusions of Native and American Poetry, Kenneth Lincoln (Editor), Univ. California Press.
The Colour of Resistance, Connie Fife (Editor), Sister Vision Press.
Textbooks
"Inside Poetry", Harcourt Canada
Journal Articles and Other Publications
"In the Presence of Spirits: Native Women Poets Speak", in Oxford Companion to Women's Literature in the United States, Cathy N. Davidson, Linda Wagner-Martin Editors), Oxford Univ. Press.
"Healing Voices: A Native Women's Symposium", in News From Native California.
"Columbus' Footprints: A Quintcentenarry Retrospective", in The Lumberjack, October 6, 1992.
"Ancestral Voices", Affschanburg Post, Bad Kreisbacht, Germany, November 12, 1993.
"In The Blood of Our Ancestors", in WESTOP News, January 1998.
Recordings
Killing You Softly..., Mankillers, Available through the Mankillers website now.
Comin' to Getcha!, Mankillers, Without Rez Records.
Mankillers - All Woman Northern Drum, Without Rez Records.
See Also
Carolyn's personal website and blog
--Cdunn 07:46, 24 June 2007 (PDT)
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