Alabama Authors Directory

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Dr. Deidra Dees

Hometown: Uriah, AL Lives in: Atmore, AL

Contact Information

  • Email: ddees@pci-nsn.gov

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  • Phone: (251) 446-4940
  • Preferred Contact Method: Any

 

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About Dr. Deidra Dees

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Children and Young Adults, Journalism

Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, In Person, Remote

Bio:

Award winning Mvskoke/Scottish American poet and Harvard graduate, Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees, grew up in the American South learning how to suppress her Mvskoke heritage from outsiders. Today, she embraces her bicultural identity and writes about it in her writings. She works in the Office of Archives and Records Management at the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and teaches Native American Studies at the University of South Alabama. Heleswv heres, mvto.

Works: Dr. Dees served as the Associate Editor of the University of South Alabama The Jaguar Journal (1997). Her transformative writings were featured in the poetry book, Absorbing Destruction: Poetry by Ten Women (Robbinsdale, MN: Guild Press, 1999). Dr. …Read More Dees’ chapbook, Vision Lines: Native American Decolonizing Literature (Minneapolis, MN: TA Publications, 2004), explores decolonizing methodologies. Her research on indigenous rights is reflected in Our Voices: Harvard University Graduate School of Education ALANA Anthology (Cambridge, MA: President & Fellows of Harvard College, 2005) and The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writers after Removal (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010). Her writings about the Native American experience are published in Creek Corner Magazine (2024), Yellow Medicine Review (2023), African American Review (2023), Birmingham Arts Journal (2003), Modern Language Studies (2024), and South Dakota Review (2022). Heleswv heres, Mvto.

Awards: Dr. Dees turned her voice on backbreaking pain into a voice of liberation as demonstrated in the anthological book, On Work, by Unleash Press (Reynoldsville, Ohio: Unleash Press, 2023). She said, “It was an unexpected pleasure to see my poetry …Read More recognized for the distinguished Editor’s Choice Winner—heartfelt honor.”
She has appeared with other Indigenous writers in publications including Yellow Medicine Review and Kinsman Quarterly. Kinsman recently announced her free verse as one of the winners of the Native Voices Award. “I felt exalted to be in such fine company of writers.”

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