LeAnne Howe

LeAnne Howe (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and filmmaker. Her most recent book, Savage Conversations, 2019, is about Mary Todd Lincoln and an American Indian ghost that haunted her in 1875. In 2014, Howe's Choctalking on Other Realities, won the inaugural  MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. She is the Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature in English at the University of Georgia, Athens.