Joseph Bruchac
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Joseph Bruchac, Abenaki author & storyteller
Joseph Bruchac (1942-present) is a writer of books relating often to Native American lives and myths. He has published over 60 books, including works of poety, short stories, novels, and collections of Indian myths and legends. He has also edited varias anthologies of minority American writing. He is from Saratoga, New York, and is of Abenaki and Slovak blood. Among his works is the novel Dawn Land (1993) and its sequel, Long River (1995), which are about an Abenaki warrior living about 10,000 years ago. He is currently working on a third.
Career & publications
Joseph holds a B.A. from Cornell University, an M.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from Syracuse and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Union Institute of Ohio. His work as a educator includes eight years of directing a college program for Skidmore College inside a maximum security prison. With his wife, Carol, he is the founder and Co-Director of the Greenfield Review Literary Center and The Greenfield Review Press. He has edited a number of highly praised anthologies of contemporary poetry and fiction, including Songs from this Earth on Turtle's Back, Breaking Silence (winner of an American Book Award) and Returning the Gift. His poems, articles and stories have appeared in over 500 publications, from American Poetry Review, Cricket and Aboriginal Voices to National Geographic, Parabola and Smithsonian Magazine. He has authored more than 70 books for adults and children, including The First Strawberries, Keepers of the Earth (co-authored with Michael Caduto), Tell Me a Tale, When the Chenoo Howls (co-authored with his son, James), his autobiography Bowman's Store and such novels as Dawn Land, The Waters Between, Arrow Over the Door and The Heart of a Chief. His honors include a Rockefeller Humanities fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship for Poetry, the Cherokee Nation Prose Award, the Knickerbocker Award, the Hope S. Dean Award for Notable Achievement in Children's Literature and both the 1998 Writer of the Year Award and the 1998 Storyteller of the Year Award from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. In 1999, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.
References
I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, Swann, Brian & Krupat, Arnold, Bison Books, 1998.
See Also
Joseph's personal website with interviews, complete book lists, performance schedule and contact information is available.
Reviews of many of Joseph's childrens books
BookTalk with Joe Bruchac at Lee & Low Books.
Meet the Author from Houghton Mifflin
A short biography from the Internet Public Library's Native American Author Project.
A chat with Joseph Bruchac at Wordsmith.org.
An Introduction to Native American Literature by Joseph Bruchac to Ken Lopez's catalog.
Interview with Joseph by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Celebrating American Indian Heritage Month with Storyteller Joseph Bruchac
Joe Bruchac profile from the Scholastic site
Chapter 10: Joseph Bruchac. PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide
Joseph Bruchac, on Sharing Stories from the Kennedy Center
Profile of Joseph Bruchac on PatriciaMNewman.com
Artist/Naturalist page at morning-earth.org
