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Luci Tapahonso is a Navajo poet, writer, and educator. She was born in Shiprock, New Mexico, and is a member of the Navajo Nation. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Blue Horses Rush In, Saanii Dahataal: The Women Are Singing, and A Breeze Swept Through. She has also written several children's books, including The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses and The First Strawberries. Tapahonso has taught at the University of New Mexico since 1988, and is currently a professor of English and American Indian Studies. She has received numerous awards and honors, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native American Literature Symposium. Tapahonso is married to fellow Navajo poet and educator Simon Ortiz, and they have two children. As of 2021, Luci Tapahonso's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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Occupation Writer, university lecturer
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 8 November 1953
Birthday 8 November
Birthplace Shiprock, New Mexico, USA
Nationality United States

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2008

In 2008 Tapahonso published A Radiant Curve, for which she will win the Arizona Book Award for Poetry in 2009.

1993

Her 1993 collection Saánii Dahataal (the women are singing), written in Navajo and English, was the first to gain her an international reputation, a reputation then cemented by 1997's blue horses rush in.

1978

Silko helped Tapahonso publish her first story, "The Snake Man", in 1978. Her first collection of poetry, One More Shiprock Night (assembled when she was still an undergraduate), was published in 1981, but did not make much impact. Following Silko's lead, Tapahonso's early work is often mystical and places much importance on the idea of the feminine as a source of power and balance in the world. She also frequently uses her family and childhood friends in her poetry. Several more collections followed, as well as many individual poems which have been anthologized in others' collections, activist literature, and writing in magazines.

1971

Born on the Navajo reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico to Eugene Tapahonso Sr. and Lucille Deschenne Tapahonso. English was not spoken on the family farm, and Tapahonso learned it as a second tongue after her native Navajo. Following schooling at Navajo Methodist School in Farmington, New Mexico, she attended Shiprock High School and graduated in 1971. She embarked on a career as a journalist and investigative reporter before beginning her studies at the University of New Mexico in 1976. There she first met the novelist and poet Leslie Marmon Silko, who was a faculty member and who proved to be an important influence on Tapahonso's early writing. She initially intended to study journalism at New Mexico, but Silko convinced her to change her major to creative writing. She earned her bachelor's degree in 1980. In 1983, Tapahonso gained her MA in Creative Writing, and she proceeded to teach, first at New Mexico and later at the University of Kansas and now at the University of Arizona.

1953

Luci Tapahonso (born November 8, 1953) is a Navajo poet and a lecturer in Native American Studies. She is the first poet laureate of the Navajo Nation, succeeded by Laura Tohe.

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