Tiffany Midge

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 thepublications listed in the Anthologies section below, she has also published herwork in Cimarron Review, SAIL, Weber Studies Journal, Poetry Northwest, Seattle Arts, Northwest Ethnic News, and Cutbank 40, Crossing the Divide Currently Tiffany lives in Seattle and is working on a novel and a second poetry collection

Writing available online:

Sweetheart
The Arachnid Letters
Grace Isn't Always a Woman
For The Lummi Girl Who Found Her Magic In Horses
Identifying the Beast
First Snow of '96

Awards:
Tiffany received the Diane Decorah Award for Poetry in 1994 from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.


Books by Tiffany Midge or containing her work:      

Outlaws, Renegades and Saints : Diary of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed, Greenfield Review Press.

Review of Outlaws, Renegades, and Saints by Mark Newman

Animal Lore and Legend : Buffalo, Scholastic Trade.


Anthologies:

Growing Up Ethnic in America
by Maria M Gillan, Jennifer Gillan (Editors), Viking Penguin, 1998.

Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American, by Maria M. Gillan, Jennifer Gillan (Editors), Viking Penguin, 1998.

A Shade of Spring (7th Generation Books), Florene Belmore (Editor), 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 (Edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird), W.W. Norton. (Hardcover) the Indian Summer issue of phatitude

Durable Breath : Contemporary Native American Poetry, John E. Smelcer, D. L. Birchfiel (Editors), Salmon Run Pub.

Blue Dawn, Red Earth : New Native American Storytellers, by 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.

 

You may also order Tiffany's work from The North American Native Authors Catalog.