Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s books include (poetry)
The Year of the Rat,
Dog Road Woman,
Off-Season City Pipe,
Blood Run,
Burn, and
Streaming, as well as a memoir,
Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. Her latest release is a National Book Award finalist,
Look at This Blue, a book-length love poem/letter/song for what is at stake in California, forming a taxonomy of threatened lives — human, plant, and animal — marked by climate emergency and detrimental colonialism of statehood.
She is the editor of the anthologies
Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas,
Effigies, and
Effigies II and is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside. Hedge Coke came of age working fields, factories, and waters and is currently at work on a film,
Red Dust: resiliency in the dirty thirties, a new CD, and new poems.
Her work can also be found in the summer 2022 issue of
The LARB Quarterly, no. 34: Do you love me?