Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American Book Award-winning poet whose books include Streaming and Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. She is editor of the anthologies Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, Effigies and Effigies II and served as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa. Hedge Coke came of age working fields, factories and waters and directed a documentary film, Red Dust. Her book, Look at This Blue, a poem (2022), was a National Book Award Finalist and 2023 Emory Elliott Book Award winner.