Karenne Wood
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Karenne Wood, Monacan poet
Karenne Wood is an enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation and serves on the Monacan Tribal Council. She is Director of the Virginia Indian Heritage Program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Virginia, working to reclaim indigenous languages and revitalize cultural practices. She was previously the Repatriation Director for the Association on American Indian Affairs, coordinating the return of sacred objects to Native communities. She has also worked at the National Museum of the American Indian as a researcher, and she directed a tribal history project with the Monacan Nation for six years. Wood held a gubernatorial appointment as Chair of the Virginia Council on Indians for four years, and she has served on the National Congress of American Indians’ Repatriation Commission. Wood’s poems have appeared in such journals as Iris, Orion and Shenandoah. She was a finalist for both the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship and the Stadler Poetry Fellowship. Her first book of poetry, Markings on Earth, won the North American Native Authors First Book Award and was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2001. It was a finalist for the Balcones Prize. In 2002 she was selected as Writer of the Year in Poetry by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, and she has been a featured Native poet in Indian Country Today. She recently edited The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail, led the “Beyond Jamestown” Teachers’ Institute, and curated the “Beyond Jamestown: Virginia Indians Past and Present” exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. She holds an MFA in poetry from George Mason University.
Writing available online
Homeland from the Montana Committee for the Humanities
For My Ex-husband on The Common Reader
Karen gave the Invocation at the 2004 Monticello Independence Day Celebration (Audio)
Awards
Karenne received the Diane Decorah Award for Poetry in 2000 from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas for her book of poems, Markings on Earth. She was recently named 2002 Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year in Creative Writing: Poetry for Markings on Earth.
Karenne was a finalist for the Ruth Lilley Poetry Fellowship in 2000.
Books by Karenne Wood
Markings on Earth, University of Arizona Press.
The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail (ed.), Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
Anthologies
Sister Nations, Heid Erdrich and Laura Tohe (Editors), New Rivers Press.
The People Who Stayed Behind, Geary Hobson and Janet McAdams (Editors), [Forthcoming].
Feeding the Ancient Fires: A Collection of Writings by North Carolina American Indians, Marijo Moore (Ed.), Renegade Planets Pub.
Gatherings IX: Beyond Victimization: Forging a Path to Celebration, Greg Young-Ing (Ed.), Theytus Books.
See Also
Writing Collaborative History in Archaeology
Monacan poet writes of the history, struggles of Native people in Indian Country Today
Virginia Festival of the Book 2007
Interview with Karenne on Wisdom of the Elders
Lost language from the University of Virginia
Monacan Voices on AIROS
Setting Monacan History Straight
U. Va. Monacan Indian Nation Leaders Meet
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