Gladys Cardiff

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Gladys Cardiff (born 1942) is a poet and academic, with interests in Native American, African American and American literature. She is an associate professor at Oakland University.

Cardiff is of Irish and Welsh descent on her mother's side, and from the Owl clan of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians on her father's side. She makes use of her cultural heritage in her work, referencing especially Cherokee place names in her poetry.

Cardiff won Governor's Writer's Award for her first book of poetry, To Frighten a Storm, in 1976. She published A Bare Unpainted Table in 1999.

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• Staff page at Oakland University