这位创意写作教授因写作获得了美国艺术家奖学金。
卡拉·尼克松
2025年6月26日
Professor 琼·纳维约克·凯恩 received the United States Artists Fellowship for writing this past spring. 该奖项为艺术家和合作者提供5万美元的无限制资金，并选择那些表现出艺术诚信并对创意生态系统做出重大贡献的研究员。
凯恩有广泛的作品，包括诗歌、散文集和短篇小说。 Inupiaq with family from Ugiuvak (King Island) and Qawiaraq (Mary's Igloo), Alaska, Kane’s work often centers tribal identity and how it intersects with grief, motherhood, and land.
Recently, Kane co-edited 环极联系：北极创造性的本土地理. 她即将出版的作品将得到美国奖学金的帮助，包括一本小册子、散文集和诗集。
The chapbook, &所有选择离开她的人, was shaped by the role of Catholicism in Kane’s family and her experience moving away from Anchorage, Alaska, in 2019. Set to be published in fall 2028, the chapbook won the 2024 Omnidawn Chapbook Contest, with one judge noting: “Here, poems are in motion. 他们是前哨，是语言的船队，是被殖民主义和教会的入侵刮伤的仓库。 While loss hovers over these worlds/words, they move toward triumph.”
Kuułqhuzuk and Others, 凯恩参与编辑的这本书收集了围绕母权制、部落身份、未来和文化批评等主题的文章。 一些文章观察并质疑阿拉斯加的情况和北极地区的其他地缘政治。 另一些则关注本土作家和他们与祖先的谈判。
Of the poetry collection, 雪从窗口往南泻去, Kane says, “The speakers of the poems in this collection turn with, towards, and for relatives and beloveds across seas and oceans, continents and nations, languages and histories—into belief.” To be released in early 2026, the collection was written across location, between New England, Inuit Nunaat, Sápmi, the Pacific Northwest, and the “Old World,” and across time, through the pandemic and political upheaval. “It includes literary translations across several dialects of the Inupiaq language, and re-complexifies Arctics at a time when empires once again seem interested in flattening and erasing millennia of Indigenous inhabitation, care, and situatedness,” Kane says.
Kane, who has been nominated to apply for the USA Fellowship many times, felt both surprised and relieved when she found out she’d won.
“I hope that people who hear about this are reminded that supporting artists and supporting creative culture bearers and culture makers in this time is really vital,” Kane says, “whether it means buying books, if that's an option, checking out books from the library, or finding and making artistic community.”
While she’s taught at Reed, Kane says students have been an example of why that kind of community can be so vital. “Reed students have really inspired me with their support of each other,” she says, “and with their eagerness to make connections across writing communities in the Portland area.”