Janet McAdams
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Janet McAdams, Alabama Creek poet
Janet McAdams is the author of two collections of poetry, The Island of Lost Luggage, and Feral. With Geary Hobson and Kathryn Walkiewicz, she is editing the anthology, The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after the Removal. New projects include Red Weather, a novel about the sterilization of Indian women in the 1970s, and a memoir, Not too Sane: Art and the Romance of Suffering.
Janet edits Earthworks, a book series from Salt Publishing focusing on indigenous poetry. Her poems have been published in North American Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, Women's Review of Books, Kenyon Review, and other magazines. Her reviews and criticism have been in such journals as 'SAIL:Studies in American Indian Literature, American Indian Quarterly, The Women's Review of Books, and in the edited collectionsWomen Poets of the Americas and "Speak to Me Words."
She teaches at Kenyon College, where she is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry. In addition to teaching creative writing, environmental literature, and indigenous literature, she is a practitioner and teacher of Integral Yoga. Her formerly stiff back bends a little more each day.
Writing available online
Border Crossing a very short story in "Verbsap".
Wing from the Salt Publishing site.
Korean Airlines Disaster from The Island of Lost Luggage
Twin, Disappearing and The Daughter of No One in storySouth
Interview with the Reader in storySouth
Oak Grove Cemetary in "Mobius"
The Manson Girls in The Kenyon Review
Buffalo in Six Directions in SAIL
We, I, "Voice," and Voices: Reading Contemporary Native American Poetry from SAIL
An Interview with Carter Revard from SAIL
Awards
"The Island of Lost Luggage" received the American Book Award in 2001.
The Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers named Janet Publisher of the Year in 2003. In 2002, they honored her as Wordcraft Circle Mentor of the Year.
Books by Janet McAdams
Poetry
Feral, Salt Publishing
The Island of Lost Luggage, (First Book Awards for Poetry) University of Arizona Press.
- Review of the book in Emory Magazine
Criticism
The Salt Companion to Carter Revard, Ellen Arnold, (Editor) Salt Publishing.
Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry, Janice Gould & Dean Rader (Editors), Univ. Arizona Press.
Women Poets of the Americas: Toward a Pan-American Gathering, Jacqueline Vaught Brogan & Cordelia Candelaria (Editors), Univ. of Notre Dame Pr.
"Histories of the world", Reviews from The Women's Review of Books
"The Invisible Musician", Review from The American Indian Quarterly
Anthologies
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Fourteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (Editors), Griffin.
The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, Jeanne Marie Beaumont & Claudia Carlson (Editors), Story Line Press.
Outsiders: Poems About Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades, Laure-Anne Bosselaar (Editor), Milkweed Editions.
See Also
Janet's faculty page at Kenyon College
A short biography at the Internet Public Library's Native American Authors Project
This page is part of the Storytellers: Native American Authors Online project.
