Howe (Choctaw) is the recipient of a United States Artists Ford Fellow, Lifetime Achievement Award by the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, American Book Award, Oklahoma Book Award, and she was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to Jordan. In October 2015, Howe received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association. In 2014, she received the Modern Languages Association inaugural Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages for Choctalking on Other Realities.

She received a master of fine arts from Vermont College of Norwich University and shares a Native and Indigenous Studies Association award for literary criticism with eleven other scholars for “Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective,” named one of the 10 most influential books of the first decade of the twenty-first century for indigenous scholarship.

Howe has lectured nationally and internationally, giving the Richard Hoggart Series lecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Keynes Lecture at the University of Kent, Canterbury, among others. In 1993, she lectured throughout Japan as an American Indian representative during the United Nations’ “International Year of Indigenous People.”

Her books include “Shell Shaker”, “Evidence of Red”, “Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story” and “Choctalking on Other Realities.” She also co-edited a book of essays on Native films with Harvey Markowitz and Denise K. Cummings titled “Seeing Red, Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film.”

Howe’s most recent essay appears in a special issue of Studies of American Indian Literature, an exploration by scholars on her literary concept of tribalography. Currently, she’s at work on the research and development of a trans-genre text that integrates original cinematography.