Native American Authors

Tiffany Midge
, 1965-

Hunkpapa

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. She has published her work in Cimarron Review, SAIL, Weber Studies Journal, Poetry Northwest, Seattle Arts, Northwest Ethnic News, and Cutbank 40, Crossing the Divide.

Awards and Honors

1994 Diane Decorah Memorial poetry prize

Books by Tiffany Midge:

Midge, Tiffany. Animal Lore and Legend: Buffalo
New York : Scholastic Trade, 1995.
Genre: Folklore
Language: English
Audience: Youth
ISBN: 0590224891

Midge, Tiffany. Blue Dawn, Red Earth: New Native American Storytellers
New York : Anchor Books, 1996.
Genre: Folklore
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0385479522

Midge, Tiffany. Identity lessons : Contemporary Writing about Learning to be American
New York : Penguin Books, 1999.
Genre: Essays
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0140271678

Midge, Tiffany. Outlaws, Renegades and Saints: Diary of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed
Greenfield Center, NY : Greenfield Review Press, 1996.
Genre: Poetry
Language: English
Audience: All Ages
ISBN: 0912678933

Midge, Tiffany. Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writing of North America
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Genre: Essays
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0393040291

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