LeAnne Howe's 2002 novel Shell Shaker won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

Other writings include:
1. "The Story of America: A Tribalography." In Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies.ed. Nancy Shoemaker. New York: Routledge, 2002.
2. "Indian Radio Days," with Roxy Gordon. In Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays. Ed. Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1999.
3. "Indians Never Say Goodbye." In Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America. Ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
4. "Danse D'Amour, Danse de Mort." In Earth Song, Sky Spirit: Short Stories of the Contemporary Native American Experience. Ed. Clifford E. Trafzer. New York: Doubleday, 1993.
5. "An American in New York." In Global Cultures: A Transnational Reader. Ed. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. Hanover: Wesleyan Univ. Press/Univ. Press of New England, 1994.
6. "Moccasins Don't Have High Heels" and "The Red Wars." In American Indian Literature: An Anthology. Revised. Ed. Alan R. Velie. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
7. In Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women. Ed. Paula Gunn Allen. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

Currently, Ms. Howe is consulting with PBS on a film in production in North Carolina, and has recently given readings at the University of Montana, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Salem College (Winston-Salem, NC). In addition to having taught at Carlton College Grinnell College, Sinte Gleska University, and Wake Forest, Ms. Howe founded WagonBurner Theatre Troop, an American Indian theatre company, that has performed throughout the Midwest and at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, and in 1998 spent several weeks in residence at the Center for Complexity Studies, Bucharest, Romania. More information is available from Voices from the Gaps.

She is included in NAWPA, the Native American Women Playwrights Archive in Miami University Libraries and serves on its Board of Advisors.
LeAnne Howe's visit to Miami University is supported in part by NAWPA and by the Department of Theatre, William Doan, Chair.

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