Laura Tohe
Laura Tohe | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 73–74) |
| Nationality | Navajo, America |
| Education | University of New Mexico, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (MA, Phd - Creative Writing and Literature) |
| Notable awards | Festival of Words Writers Award (2019) |
Laura Tohe (born 1952) is a Native American author and poet.[1] She is poet laureate of the Navajo Nation for 2015–2019,[2] and is a professor emerita of English at Arizona State University.[3]
Tohe was born in Fort Defiance, Arizona, the daughter of a Navajo code talker.[2] She grew up speaking both Diné bizaad/Navajo language and English and was punished in school for speaking her native language due to assimilation.[4] She earned a B.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1975, an M.A. from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1985, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1993. She has been affiliated with Arizona State University since 1994.[5]
Selected works
[edit | edit source]Books
[edit | edit source]- Making Friends with Water (Nosila Press, 1986)
- No Parole Today (West End Press, 1999)[6]
- Tséyi' / Deep in the Rock: Reflections on Canyon de Chelly (with photographer Stephen E. Strom, University of Arizona Press, 2005)[7]
- Code Talker Stories (Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2012)[8]
Librettos
[edit | edit source]- Slayer, A Navajo Oratorio (With M. Grey, Naxos Digital Services US Inc. 2009)[9]
Awards
[edit | edit source]- "Tseyi, Deep in the Rock" won the Glyph Award for Best Poetry (2007)[10]
- Navajo Nation Poet Laureate (2017) [11]
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External links
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- 1952 births
- Living people
- American librettists
- Native American poets
- Navajo women writers
- Navajo writers
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
- University of New Mexico alumni
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century Native American writers
- 20th-century Native American women writers
- 21st-century Native American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- Municipal poets laureate in the United States
- 21st-century Native American writers
- Native American women poets
- 21st-century American poets