The Rites of Autumn: A Falconer's Journey Across the American West
His essay "The Heart of the Wind" appeared in the 1998 edition of American Nature Writing.
Each year, SDCTE endeavors to honor a regional writer with its South Dakota Author of the Year Award. The 2003 Author of the Year was awarded to Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. Cook-Lynn is a native South Dakotan and Native American with a distinguished academic and literary career. For ever 30 years, she has written and spoken boldly and honestly about American Indians in journals such as South Dakota Review, Prairie Schooner, and the one she founded, Wicazo Sa Review. The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America at Boston University named her book, Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice, for a Gustavus Myers Award. She has also written short fiction, novels, and poetry.
2004 Author of the Year: David Allan Evans
Each year, SDCTE endeavors to honor a regional writer with its South Dakota Author of the Year Award. The 2004 Author of the Year was awarded to David Allan Evans. David Allan Evans is also the 2004 South Dakota Poet LaureateEvans was born in Sioux City, Iowa and married his high school girl friend soon after graduation. Evans says the the strongest influence on him was his father, a newspaper pressman most of his life. He was also a self-educated writer and scholar. Evans has degrees from Morningside College and the universities of Iowa and Arkansas. He has won writing grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bush Artist Foundation, and has twice been a Fulbright Scholar to China. He is Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at South Dakota State University. Evans is the author of five books of poems and three books of prose. His short stories, poems, and essays have been published in numerous magazines and journals and in over fifty anthologies including Heartland: Poets of the Midwest, Best Poems of 1969 (Borestone Awards), The HBJ Treasury of Literature, Poetspeak, Imagining Home: Writing from the Midwest, As Far as the Eye can See, Vs: The Anthology of American Sports Poems, and The Norton Book of Sports.
Some links for Evans are:
Bullfrogs (a poem) |
Poetry and
Politics Page |
South Dakota State University Page
· Past Honorees · Nominate an Author ·
2003--Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
2002--No Award Given
2001--Dan O'Brien
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The Rites of Autumn: A Falconer's Journey Across the American West |
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His essay "The Heart of the Wind" appeared in the 1998 edition of American Nature Writing. |
2000--Paul Higbee
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Contributing Editor of South Dakota Magazine. |
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Visit South Dakota Magazine online to read excerpt from Higbee's "Hotel Alex Johnson" and "Rockin' the Spearfish Pavillion." |
1999--Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
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1998--Kent Meyers
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1997--Linda Hasselstrom
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Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West |
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1996--Kathleen Norris
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Use this form to nominate a South Dakota writer for the SDCTE Author of the Year Award. (You need Acrobat Reader to open this file. If you need a hard copy of the form, please contact a member of the SDCTE Executive Board.)
This page was last updated on October 08, 2008 , by DJW.