Laura Tohe
She is poet laureate of the Navajo Nation for 2015–2019, and is a professor emerita of English at Arizona State University. Tohe was born in Fort Defiance, Arizona, the daughter of a Navajo code talker. She grew up speaking both Diné bizaad/Navajo language and English and was punished in school for speaking her native language due to assimilation.
Laura Tohe
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- Name
- Laura Tohe
- Born
- 1952
- Education
- University of New Mexico, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (MA, Phd - Creative Writing and Literature)
- Awards
- Festival of Words Writers Award (2019)
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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.
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Laura Tohe, recorded as an Anglicist, writer and librettist, was born in 1963. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Professor Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation, Laura Tohe presents “Armed with Our Language, We Went to
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Retiring Professor, Laura Tohe. The Department of English at ASU hosted this spring semester social event and celebration of recent and soon-to-be retirees: Daniel Brendza, Paul Cook, Cynthia Hogue, Simon Ortiz, Angelita Reyes, and Laura Tohe. Music at the event by Diego Alec Miranda (classical guitar). ASU Tempe campus Apr. 19, 2018
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• Name — Laura Tohe • Born — 1952 • Education — University of New Mexico, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (MA, Phd - Creative Writing and Literature) • Awards — Festival of Words Writers Award (2019)
Librettos
Librettos
• Slayer, A Navajo Oratorio (With M. Grey, Naxos Digital Services US Inc. 2009)
Books
• Making Friends with Water (Nosila Press, 1986) • No Parole Today (West End Press, 1999) • Tséyi' / Deep in the Rock: Reflections on Canyon de Chelly (with photographer Stephen E. Strom, University of Arizona Press, 2005) • Code Talker Stories (Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2012)
Awards
• "Tseyi, Deep in the Rock" won the Glyph Award for Best Poetry (2007) • Navajo Nation Poet Laureate (2017)
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