Tiffany Midge
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Tiffany Midge, Hunkpapa Sioux poet
Tiffany Midge, of Hunkpapa Sioux and German ancestry, grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. She serves on the Board of Directors for Red Eagle Soaring (RES), the Native American outreach-theater company. She is also a poetry editor for the multicultural arts magazine The Raven Chronicles. Besides the publications listed in the Anthologies section below, she has also published her work in Cimarron Review, SAIL, Weber Studies Journal, Poetry Northwest, Seattle Arts, Northwest Ethnic News, and Cutbank 40, Crossing the Divide.
A writer of international appeal, her poetry has been commissioned into a choral ensemble by composer Seppo Pohjola of Finland and adapted into the dramatic work, “Cedars,” produced by 'Red Eagle Soaring Native American Theater.
Writing available online
A Girl Named Turquoise, Tiffany's blog
The Woman who Married a Bear and other poems in The Other Voices International Project
The Running Boy in Weber Studies
After Viewing the Holocaust Museum's Room of Shoes and a Gallery of Plains' Indian Moccasins: Washington, D.C. in Cold Mountain Review
For The Lummi Girl Who Found Her Magic In Horses from the Raven Chronicles website
Identifying The Beast from the Raven Chronicles website
First Snow of '96 from the Raven Chronicles website
Tiffany reading her poem The Woman Who Married a Bear
Awards
Tiffany received the Diane Decorah First Book Award for Poetry in 1994 from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
Books by Tiffany Midge or containing her work
Guiding the Stars to Their Campfire, Driving the Salmon to Their Beds, Gazoobi Tales.
Outlaws, Renegades and Saints : Diary of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed, Greenfield Review Press.
Animal Lore and Legend : Buffalo, Scholastic Trade.
Anthologies
Without Reservation: Indigenous Erotica, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (Editor), Kegedonce Press.
Growing Up Ethnic in America, by Maria M. Gillan, Jennifer Gillan (Editors), Viking Penguin, 1998.
Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American, Maria M. Gillan, Jennifer Gillan (Editors), Viking Penguin, 1998.
A Shade of Spring, Florene Belmore (Editor), 7th Generation Books. 1998.
The Poem and the World: The Seattle Sister Cities Poetry Anthologies, Volume 4, 1998.
Reinventing the Enemy's Language : Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America, Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird (Editors), W.W. Norton.
Indian Summer issue of phati'tude
Gatherings, Volume X, A Retrospective of the First Decade, Greg Young-Ing & Florene Belmore (Editors), Theytus Books.
Durable Breath : Contemporary Native American Poetry, John E. Smelcer, D. L. Birchfield (Editors), Salmon Run Pub.
Blue Dawn, Red Earth : New Native American Storytellers, Clifford E. Trafzer (Editor), Anchor Books
Gatherings VI : 'Metamorphosis' Manifesting and Respecting Diversity in Our Transformation, Theytus Books.
Blue Mesa Review, Vol. 6, David Johnson (Editor), Univ of New Mexico Press.
Ergo! : The Bumbershoot 1994 Literary Magazine, Bumbershoot.
Interviews with or Critical Work on Tiffany Midge
The Nature of Native American Poetry, Norma C. Wilson, Univ. New Mexico Press.
Textbooks
Multicultural Reader, Many Voices Series
See Also
A short biography from the Internet Public Library's Native American Authors Project
This page is part of the Storytellers: Native American Authors Online project.
