Turcotte, Mark

Mark Turcotte, a Chippewa writer born of an Ojibway father and Irish- American mother, spent his earliest years on North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Reservation and in the migrant camps of the western United States. Later, he grew up in and around Lansing, Michigan. In 1993, he won the first Gwendolyn Brooks Open-Mic Poetry Award. Mark was named a 1999 Literary Fellow by the Wisconsin Arts Board, and has received a Lannan Foundation Literary Completion Grant for 2001-2002. He has been the recipient of a Community Residency from National Writer's Voice and was awarded the 1997 Josephine Gates Kel