Red Hawk was the Hodder Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University in 1991-92 and has taught at The University of Arkansas Monticello since 1997. He has published 5 books of poetry, 4 of which are still in print: Journey of the Medicine Man (August House,1983), The Sioux Dog Dance (Cleveland State University, 1991), The Way of Power (Hohm Press, 1996), and The Art of Dying (Hohm Press, 1999).

Red Hawk will introduce to the public for the first time his new book: Wreckage With A Beating Heart (Hohm Press, 2005).

Red Hawk has had poems in The Atlantic, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Atlanta Review and many others. He has given public readings with Alan Ginsberg, Miller Williams, Gary Snyder, Rita Dove, and Tess Gallagher, among others. He has 2 terrific daughters who live in California, and he lives in Monticello, Arkansas with his sweetheart Chandrika.