Laura Tohe | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 71–72) |
| Nationality | Navajo, America |
| Education | University of New Mexico, University of Nebraska (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 in 1985, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 1993. She has been affiliated with Arizona State University since 1994.[5]
- ^ McClinton-Temple, Jennifer; Velie, Alan (2010), "Tohe, Laura", Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature, Infobase Publishing, pp. 361–362, ISBN 9781438120874
- ^ a b White, Kaila (December 23, 2015), "Navajo Nation poet laureate Laura Tohe", Amazing Arizonans, The Arizona Republic
- ^ Laura Tohe, Arizona State University, retrieved 2018-07-05
- ^ Burroway, Janet (2014). A Story Larger than My Own. London: University of Chicago Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-226-01410-4.
- ^ Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2018-07-05