Susan Power
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Susan Power (b. October 12, 1961-, Chicago, IL) is a Standing Rock Sioux author. She earned her A.B. degree in Psychology at Harvard/Radcliffe College and a law degree from Harvard Law School, but decided to become a writer, starting her career by attending the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her short fiction has been published in Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, Voice Literary Supplement, Ploughshares, Story, and The Best American Short Stories 1993. She teaches at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Her novel, The Grass Dancer, contains a complex plot which takes place in reverse chronological order, portraying the complex relations between members of the Sioux community in North Dakota. Strong Heart Society addresses Native American life in urban Chicago. In the novel, three Native Americans, a Sioux from South Dakota, a Vietnam veteran, and a powwow princess, explain their link to Chicago. Roofwalker, is a collection of short stories and autobiographical essays all linked to Native American heritage.
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Awards
Power received the 1995 PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction for The Grass Dancer. She held an Alfred Hodder Fellowship in Humanities at Princeton University. She has also been a James Michener fellow and a Bunting Institute fellow.
Books
- The Grass Dancer, Putnam, 1994.
- Strong Heart Society, Penguin, 1998.
- Roofwalker, Milkweed Editions, 2002.
Reference
Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", Collection Building Vol. 17, 1, 1998, p. 4
See Also
- Voices in the Gaps biography
- Hodder Fellowship announcement from Princeton University.
- Roofwalker at Milkweed Editions.
- New York Times' book review of Roofwalker
- Reviews of The Grass Dancer and Strong Heart Society on the Primeaux family (Standing Rock Sioux) website.
