Ralph Salisbury
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Ralph Salisbury (b. 1926, Arlington, Iowa) (Cherokee) is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon. He is the author of two books of short fiction and seven books of poetry. His father was Cherokee and his mother was Irish American. He grew up on the family farm in Iowa, hunting and trapping, for meat and pelts. The farm had no electricity or running water.
Through service in World War II, he earned six years of university education. Since 1950, he has worked at writing, editing, translating and teaching writing and literature. Salisbury received his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1951. He has taught at the University of Oregon since 1960. Before that he taught at Drake University, Texas A & M University, and the University of Frankfurt/Main (Germany). For six years he was the editor-in-chief of Northwest Review. He has also co-translated two books by Sami (Lapp) poet Nils-Aslak Valkeappaa.
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[edit] Awards
Rockefeller Bellagio Award in fiction
Northwest Poetry Award
Chapelbrook Award
Fulbright Professor Germany (1983, 2004, 2005) Norway (1994)
Amparts Lecturer, India, 1987
[edit] Books
Ghost grapefruit, and other poems, Ithaca House, 1972.
Pointing at the rainbow: Poems from a Cherokee heritage, Blue Cloud Quarterly Press, 1980.
Spirit beast chant, Blue Cloud Quarterly Press, 1982.
Going To the Water: Poems of a Cherokee Heritage, Pacific House Books, 1983.
A White Rainbow: Poems of a Cherokee heritage , Blue Cloud Quarterly Press, 1985.
One Indian and Two Chiefs, stories, Navajo Community College Press, 1993.
The Last Rattlesnake Throw and Other Stories , University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.
Rainbows of Stone, University of Arizona Press, 2000.
War in the Genes, WordTech Communications, 2006.
[edit] Translations
The Trekways of the Wind, U1994.niversity of Arizona Press,
The Sun, My Father: Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa , with Harald Gaski, University of Washington Press, 1998.
[edit] See Also
- A short biography from the Native American Authors Project] at the Internet Public Library
