Luci tapahonso bibliography

Navaho poet laureate

Luci Tapahonso (born November 8, 1953)^[1][2] is a Navajopoet and a lecturer in Native American Studies.

Luci tapahonso poems

She is the first poet laureate of the Navajo Nation, succeeded by Laura Tohe.^[3][4]

Early life and education

Tapahonso was 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.^[5] Following schooling at Navajo Methodist School in Farmington, New Mexico,^[6] 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.^[5] 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