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Susan Power
, 1961-

Sioux

Susan Power is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and a descendant of the Sioux Chief Mato Nupa (Two Bears). She received degrees from Harvard/Radcliffe and Harvard Law School, and attended the Iowa Writers Workshop. She is a writer and poet , and also teaches creative writing.

Awards and Honors

1995 PEN/Hemmingway Award for Best First Fiction

 


Online resources by or about Susan Power:



From heart of Chicago, fiction of Native America arrives with great spirit
Author: Anne Putnam
Type: authorbio
Description: Article about Power from the 2/20/97 issue of the Bucknellian Online.

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Grass Dancer evokes past, present
Author: Caroline Moseley
Type: authorbio
Description: Review of The grass dancer which also includes biographical information about Power. From the 3/10/97 issue of the Princeton Weekly.

URL: http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/97/0310/0310-power.html

Books by Susan Power:


Power, Susan. The grass dancer
Rockland, MA : Wheeler Pub., 1994.
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1568952155 (hardcover)



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