Tiffany Midge

Tiffany Midge is a Native American poet (enrolled member, Standing Rock Sioux). Her poetry is noted for its depiction of a self divided by differing identities, and for a strong streak of humor.[1] In 1997, Sherman Alexie named her as among up and coming writers, but claimed that she needed to move away from the influence of his style.[2]

She has also written short stories and erotica, including contributions to the collection Without Reservation, edited by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm.

Her book Outlaws, Renegades and Saints: Diary of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed was awarded the Diane Decorah Poetry Award by the Native Writers Circle of the Americas in 1994.[3]

Among other activities, Midge now edits the poetry section of the arts magazine The Raven Chronicles.

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Books/Chapbooks

Anthologies containing work by Tiffany Midge

(Kegedonce).

(Viking 1998).

(Viking 1998).

(Edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird), W.W. Norton. (Hardcover)

Critical work on Tiffany Midge

References

  1. ^ "Like Sherman Alexie, Midge entertains with her wit and humor, but also reminds readers of the horrors of contemporary life, which are not spiders or the ghosts of Indians murdered in the late nineteenth century, but rather a hollow consumerism." Norma C. Wilson, "America's Indigenous Poetry" in The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (Cambridge UP, 2005), p. 157.
  2. ^ [1] "I think Tiffany Midge has a good future, once she stops copying me"
  3. ^ "First Book Awards for Poetry from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas". Storytellers Native American Authors Online. http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/awards/poetry.html. Retrieved 2010-11-20.