Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American Book Award-winning author of mixed Metis, Huron, Cherokee, French-Canadian, Luso, Irish, Scot, English heritage. Her books include: Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (paperback 2014), memoir, Blood Run (Salt), and (with Coffee House Press) Dog Road Woman, Off-Season City Pipe, and Streaming (2014). Hedge Coke just released an album with Rd Klā (Kelvyn Bell, Laura Ortman, and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke), titled Streaming, to coincide with the upcoming release of the book by same title. She is currently at work on Red Dust: Native Resiliency in the Dirty Thirties, a film. Her edited anthologies include, Effigies and Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas (National Book Critics Circle Critical Mass Best of 2012, Wordcraft Circle Best Editing, 2012) and Effigies II. Raised in North Carolina, the Plains and Canada, she came of age cropping tobacco and working horses, fields, waters, and factories.