Joan Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane (born 1977) is an Inupiaq American poet from Anchorage, Alaska, with family roots in King Island and Mary's Igloo. She earned a BA from Harvard College and an MFA from Columbia University, and has taught at institutions including Harvard, Tufts, UMass Boston, and Reed College. Her notable works include poetry collections such as The Cormorant Hunter's Wife (2009), Hyperboreal (2013, winner of the Donald Hall Prize), Milk Black Carbon (2017), and Dark Traffic (2021); she has received awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Whiting Writers' Award, and American Book Award.