Allison Adelle HedgeCoke was born between paternal oratory and sudden maternal madness; somewhere north of the condor and south of raven. Crow sometimes cawed morning into malady's mixture, pouring song and hack into bleating skies, swirling sunrise and set. Once, high over the Arctic, she witnessed the pounding lights hammer horizon.  Since that time her rendezvous with realtime has been a real ride. Allison Adelle HedgeCoke is the UNK Endowed Reynolds Chair of Poetry & Writing. Her authored books include: (American Book Award) Dog Road Woman and Off-Season City Pipe poetry from Coffee House Press; Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer, a memoir from the University of Nebraska Press; and Blood Run, a verse-play from Salt Publications. Hedge Coke has edited eight additional collections, including Ahani, I Sing You Back, and Effigies.  The poet, memoirist, fiction, & scriptwriter, has been an invitational performer in major poetry festivals in Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Canada, and Jordan, a Hawthornden Castle Fellow, and foreign poet at Shandong University in Wei Hai, China. Fiction publications include: Best American Fiction, Black Renaissance Noire, Indian Country Noir (Akashic), and Bombay Gin. She is Oendat, Tsalagi, French Canadian, Portuguese, Irish, Scot, English, Metis and Creek descent and came of age cropping tobacco and working fields, waters, and working in factories.