Joan Naviyuk Kane
Associate Professor of Creative Writing
English Department
Division of Literature and Languages
Joan Kane received her A.B. in English and American Language and Literature from Harvard University, and her M.F.A. in Writing from Columbia University. Kane is the author of several collections of poetry and prose: The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, The Straits, Milk Black Carbon, Sublingual, A Few Lines in the Manifest, Another Bright Departure, Dark Traffic, Ex Machina, with snow pouring southward past the window (2026) and & all the ones who chose to leave her (2028). A Guggenheim Fellow, Radcliffe Fellow, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s National Artist Fellow, Mellon Practitioner Fellow, and Whiting Award recipient, she’s a 2023-2026 Fulbright Specialist and the recipient of the 2023 Paul Engle Prize from the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature and a 2025 United States Artists Fellow. She is co-editor of the Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (2017), Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic (2025) and Colonial Environments: Pasts, Presents, Futures (2027). Her poetry and essays have recently appeared in The Hopkins Review, The Yale Review, The Slowdown, Poetry, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Prior to her arrival at Reed, she held faculty appointments at Harvard, Tufts, Scripps, and elsewhere.