Janet McAdams (born 1957) is an American poet, who wrote ''The Island of Lost Luggage'' (

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) which received an

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in 2001 and the First Book Award for Poetry from the

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in 1999. She is also the editor of

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's Earthworks Series of Native poets. In addition, she's worked as a telephone operator, a cartographer, a camp counselor, a maid, a cook, and an exercise instructor for people with developmental disabilities.

Background and education

Janet McAdams claims to be of Alabama Creek, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. She received her MFA in creative writing from the

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and her PhD in comparative literature from Emory University, where her studies focused on American Indian poetry. She has taught literature and creative writing at the University of Alabama, the American School of El Salvador, the

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, and is presently the Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry at Kenyon College.

Writing career

Her first novel, ''Red Weather'', is about a Native American's trip to a small

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n country in search of her activist parents.

Works

* ''The Island of Lost Luggage'', University of Arizona Press. 2000. * ''Feral'', Salt Publishing. 2007 * ''Red Weather'', (University of Arizona Press, 2012

References

External links

Janet McAdams, Kenyon College

Janet McAdams, Poetry Foundation

Janet McAdams, Hanksville

Salt Publishing's Earthworks Series

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Background and education

Writing career

Works

See also

References

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