At Washington State he took a creative-writing class with Alex Kuo; he has not stopped writing since that class, publishing in such periodicals as the
Beloit Poetry Journal,
Caliban,
Esquire,
Forkroads,
Hanging Loose,
The Journal of Ethnic Studies,
The Kenyon Review,
Left Bank,
New York Quarterly,
Ploughshares,
Slipstream, and
Zyzzyva. As Kuo notes in his introduction to Alexie's second book,
The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems (1992), "Alexie's work has escaped the pervasive influence of writing workshops, academic institutions and their subsidized intellect." Hailed by James R. Kincaid in
The New York Times (3 May 1992) as "one of the major lyric voices of our time," Alexie writes from his own experiences, his own heritage and traditions, and in his own distinctive storytelling voice.
Alexie's work has already garnered many honors and awards. In 1991 he received a Washington State Arts Commission poetry fellowship. In 1992 his first book, I Would Steal Horses, won Slipstream's fifth annual chapbook contest; the National Endowment for the Arts awarded him a poetry fellowship; and The New York Times named The Business of Fancydancing Notable Book of the Year. In 1993 The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven received a PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction and the Great Lakes College Association Best First Book of Fiction Award.
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