Dirt Road Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781880684306)

Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau has been awarded Fellowships in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and three residencies at the MacDowell Colony. Her second book of poetry, Dirt Road Home, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. She was awarded Mentor of the Year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, as well as Writer of the Year (1997) for her children's book, Muskrat Will Be Swimming. Savageau also works as a textile artist, and her quilts have been exhibited at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.