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Carolyn Dunn

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AffiliationMFA in Interdisciplinary Arts

Campus LocationPort Townsend, Washington

Email Addresscarolyn.dunn@goddard.edu

    Biography

    Carolyn M. Dunn, PhD., is an indigenous poet, playwright, musician, director and actor whose identity includes Cherokee, Muskogee Creek, Seminole and Choctaw Freedman descent on her father’s side, and Tunica-Choctaw-Biloxi and French Creole on her mother’s. She is a founding member of The Mankillers, an all-women drum from Northern California whose cd’s All Woman Northern Drum and Coming to Getcha were released on Without Rezervation Records. 

    In addition to the award-winning Outfoxing Coyote, her books include Through the Eye of the Deer (with Carol Zitzer-Comfort) Aunt Lute Books, 1999), Hozho: Walking in Beauty (with {Paula Gunn Allen, McGraw Hill, 2002), Coyote Speaks (with Ari Berk, H.N. Abrams, 2008), Echolocation: Poems, Stories and Songs from Indian Country: L.A. (Fezziweg Press, 2013), The Stains of Burden and Dumb Luck (Mongrel Empire Press, 2017). Her plays The Frybread Queen, Ghost Dance, and Soledad have been developed and staged at Native Voices at the Autry in Los Angeles. Directing credits include The Red Road and Round Dance, both by Arigon Starr, 49 by Hanay Geoigamah, Sliver of a Full Moon by Mary Kathryn Nagle, as well as Nagle’s new play Sovereignty for Heller Theater Company at Tulsa Performing Arts Center. As an actor, she has appeared most recently Neechie itas, Missing Peace,  Perhaps the World Ends Here, and the world  premier of Distant Thunder. In February, 2019, Dr. Dunn completed a residency at the University of Michigan’s Global Theater and Ethnic Studies Program, commissioning her play Three Sisters, performed by the Anishnaabe Theatre Collective at Sugar Island. 

    Dr. Dunn is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at California State University, Los Angeles, and is Artistic Director of Oklahoma indigenous Theatre Company in Oklahoma City.

    Education

    • PhD, MA University of Southern California in American Studies and Ethnicity
    • MFA coursework in Playwriting, University of Southern California 
    • MA University of California, Los Angeles in American Indian Studies (literature, folklore and mythology emphasis) 
    • BA Humboldt State University in Speech Communication, Native American Studies/Theatre minor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Creative Writing: Playwriting, poetry, creative nonfiction
    • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
    • American Indian Performance Studies
    • Indigenous Studies
    • Mixed Race Studies
    • Indigenous and BIPOC Feminisms

    Publications

    • Creative Writing: Plays: These Are Not Creek Tragedies: Three Plays by Carolyn Dunn. Under contract, No Passport Press, Dreaming the Americas Series, New York. Edited by Sarah dAngelo, foreward by Mary Kathryn Nagle. Forthcoming.
    • Creative Writing Plays: Soledad. Published in Yellow Medicine Review, Fall 2018, Special Journal on American Indian Theater.
    • Creative Writing/Poetry Book: The Stains of Burden and Dumb Luck, (poetry) Mongrel Empire Press, Norman, Oklahoma. 2017
    • Creative Writing/Fiction Book: Bloodline, (novel) forthcoming, Native Realities Press, Albuquerque, NM. 2022.
    • Creative Writing: Poetry Book: Echo Location: Poems, Fezziweg Press, 2013. 
    • Creative Writing/Poetry Book: Outfoxing Coyote, That Painted Horse Press, 2002. 
    • Scholarly Book: Coyote Speaks. Abrams Books, New York. 2008
    • Co-Edited Scholarly Anthology Book: Hozho: Walking In Beauty (co-editor), McGraw Hill/Contemporary Books, 2001.
    • Co-Edited Scholarly Anthology Book: Through the Eye of the Deer, (co-editor) Aunt Lute Books, 1999.
    • Full-Length Plays: Ghost Dance, The Frybread Queen, and Yellow Bird, published in New Native North American Drama, Alexander Street Press, Alexandria, Virginia. 2010.

    Publications

    The Stains of Burden and Dumb Luck
    Mongrel Empire Press(2017)
    Authored by Carolyn Dunn

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