Allison Hedge Coke is the author of three poetry collections, Blood Run, Off-Season City Pipe and Dog Road Woman, winner of the 1998 American Book Award, and a memoir, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. "Ghost Deer" is from the verse-play of Indigenous mound sites critically endangered in the far eastern end of the Great Plains. She teaches poetry, writing, & performance for the University of Nebraska at Kearney where she holds the endowed Reynolds Chair and for the University of Nebraska Low-Residency MFA (UNK-UNO cohort). Hedge Coke is returning summer faculty for Naropa University. Hedge Coke has also published a chapbook of poetry & prose and has edited eight anthology volumes and guest-edited the international poetry journal To Topos. She is the editor of Platte Valley Review and directs the Reynolds Series of literary and artistic readings and performances. She is also the director of the annual Honoring the Sandhill Crane Migration Literary Tribute and Retreat Conference.