Gladys Cardiff
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Gladys Cardiff (born 1942) is a poet and academic, with interests in Native American, African American and American literature. She is an assistant professor at Oakland University
Cardiff is of Irish and Welsh descent on her mother's side, and from the Owl clan of the North Carolina Cherokee on her father's side. She makes use of her cultural heritage in her work, referencing especially Cherokee place names in her poetry.
Cardiff won Governor's Writer's Award for her first book of poetry, To Frighten a Storm, in 1976. She published A Bare Unpainted Table in 1999.
External link
- Staff page at Oakland University (http://www.otus.oakland.edu/english/staff.cfm?ID=4797)
- Gladys Cardiff (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books-uk&field-author=Cardiff%2C%20Gladys/202-1249525-2669443) at Amazon.com