Tiffany Midge Explained

Tiffany Midge
Birth Date:2 July 1965
Occupation:Poet
Author
Educator
Language:English
Nationality:Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Citizenship:American
Education:University of Idaho
Years Active:1995–present

Tiffany Midge (born July 2, 1965) is a Native American poet, editor, and author,[1] who is a Hunkpapa Lakota enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux.[2]

Early life and education

Midge was born to mother Alita Rose and father Herman Lloyd.[3] Midge's mother worked as a civil servant for King County and her father was a teacher.[4] Midge's mother was Lakota Sioux and grew up on a reservation in eastern Montana. Midge's father was raised on a farm in Montana. His family was from Germany, but were originally from Russia near the Valga River.[5]

Midge grew up in the Pacific Northwest. For part of her childhood she lived in Snoqualmie Valley in Washington (state). She has an older half-sister named Julie.

In 2008, Midge received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Idaho.[6] [7]

Career

Midge's poetry is noted for its depiction of a self divided by differing identities, and for a strong streak of humor.[8]

In 2002, Finnish composer Seppo Pohjola commissioned Midge's work into a performance called Cedars for a choral ensemble that was produced at Red Eagle Soaring Native Youth Theater in Seattle.[9] In 2015, Cedars was produced by the Mirage Theatre Company at La MaMa in New York City.[10] [11] The work is a mixture of poetry and prose set to music. The newer version incorporates work by many Native American writers who in addition to Midge include Alex Jacobs, Arthur Tulee, Deborah A. Miranda, Evan Pritchard, Gail Tremblay, Joseph Bruchac, Martha Brice, Molly McGlennen, and William Michael Paul.

Midge was a humor columnist for Indian Country Media Network's Indian Country Today.[12]

In 2019, Midge published a memoir called Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's from University of Nebraska Press.[13] Cleveland Review of Books said the novel's "embrace of grief allows for an expansive range of humor that includes satire, dry wit, Twitter, and inside jokes not here for white consumption."[14]

Midge's poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction has appeared in McSweeney's, The Toast Butter Blog, Waxwing, Moss, Okey-Pankey, Mud City, Apex, The Rumpus, Yellow Medicine Review, The Raven Chronicles, North American Review and World Literature Today, and has been widely anthologized.

Teaching

Midge was a professor at Northwest Indian College, where she taught writing and composition.

In Spring 2019, she was the Simons Public Humanities fellow for University of Kansas Hall Center for the Humanities.[15] [16]

Honors and awards

Personal life

Midge lives in Moscow, Idaho, which she refers to as Nez Perce country, as well as Seattle, Washington.

Selected works and publications

Books

Anthologies

Other work

References

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Interview with Workshop Leader Tiffany Midge . Montana Book Festival . 8 September 2019.
  2. Web site: Tiffany Midge - Team Poet. Department of English. University of Idaho. https://web.archive.org/web/20140108184732/http://www.uidaho.edu/class/english/hoopalousa/moscow-supersonnets/tiffanymidge. 8 January 2014.
  3. Book: Midge. Tiffany. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's. 2019. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, NE. 978-1-496-21803-2. 1112608655.
  4. News: Midge. Tiffany. Snapshots, a prose poem by Tiffany Midge (Me, as a Child Poetry Series). Silver Birch Press. 13 April 2015. en.
  5. Book: Midge. Tiffany. Trafzer. Clifford E.. Blue Dawn, Red Earth: New Native American Storytellers. 1996. Anchor Books. New York. 978-0-385-47952-3. 267–278. https://archive.org/details/bluedawnredearth00clif/page/267. Beets. 32893633.
  6. Book: Midge. Tiffany. The Fertility Circus. April 2008. University of Idaho. Moscow, ID. Thesis/dissertation. 311595612.
  7. News: Alumna Tiffany Midge Wins Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry. University of Idaho. 2013. en.
  8. Book: Wilson. Norma C.. Porter. Joy. Roemer. Kenneth M.. The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. limited. 2005. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-82283-1. 145–160. Chapter 6 - America’s indigenous poetry. 10.1017/CCOL0521822831.007. 470047746. Midge entertains with her wit and humor, but also reminds readers of the horrors of contemporary life, which are not spiders or the ghosts of Indians murdered in the late nineteenth century, but rather a hollow consumerism..
  9. News: Cedars: Excerpts from the Premiere - Seattle, Washington (2002). Mirage Theatre Company. 2015. en.
  10. News: Cedars. Mirage Theatre Company. 2015. en.
  11. News: CEDARS Features Texts by Ten Native American Writers at La MaMa, Now thru 2/1. BroadwayWorld. 22 January 2015. en.
  12. News: Pratt. Stacy. I'd Rather Make Jokes: Stacy Pratt talks to Tiffany Midge. Anomaly Features Supplement to the Online Journal of Literature and Art. Medium. 10 October 2019. en.
  13. News: Friesen. Peter. Tiffany Midge thumbs her nose at America, with wit and wisdom. Missoulian. 12 September 2019. en.
  14. Web site: Ball Pit Blues: On Tiffany Midge's "Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's". 2021-12-21. Cleveland Review of Books. en-US.
  15. Web site: Simons Public Humanities Fellowship. The Hall Center for the Humanities. University of Kansas. 15 October 2019. en. 2019.
  16. News: Simons Public Humanities Fellow 2019: Tiffany Midge. Communiqué. The Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. Spring 2019. 15.
  17. News: Carr. Tara. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum honors prominent performers and artists at 2017 Western Heritage Awards®. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Press release. 10 March 2017.
  18. News: Bauer. Jennifer K.. Moscow's poet laureate to read from new collection. Inland 360. Moscow-Pullman Daily News. 27 April 2016.
  19. News: Tiffany Midge Wins Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry. The Kenyon Review. 5 February 2013. en.
  20. Web site: Strom. Karen M.. Karen Strom. First Book Awards for Poetry from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas. Hanksville. 1994.

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