Joseph Bruchac was born on October 16,1942 and is an American writer and storyteller based in New York.
13 Facts About Joseph Bruchac
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Joseph Bruchac writes about Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a particular focus on northeastern Native American lives and folklore.
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Joseph Bruchac identifies as being of Abenaki, English, and Slovak ancestry.
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Joseph Bruchac is a member of the Nulhegan Abenaki Nation, a state-recognized tribe in Vermont.
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Joseph Bruchac is a writer and storyteller who has published more than 120 books.
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Joseph Bruchac began publishing in 1971 and has collaborated on eight books with his son Jim.
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Joseph Bruchac has edited a number of anthologies of contemporary poetry and fiction, including Songs from this Earth on Turtle's Back, Breaking Silence and Returning the Gift.
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Joseph Bruchac plays several instruments, including the hand drum, Native American flute, and the double wooden flute, which produces two notes at the same time.
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Joseph Bruchac volunteered as a teacher in Ghana for four years.
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Joseph Bruchac subsequently taught writing classes for maximum security prisoners as part of a program run by Skidmore College.
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Joseph Bruchac has black belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and karate and runs martial arts classes.
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In 1996, Joseph Bruchac was awarded the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature by the New York Library Association.
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Joseph Bruchac received the annual NWCA Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.