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Earthly Relations, Carnal Knowledge: Southwestern American Indian Writers and Landscape,
Patricia Clark Smith and Paula Gunn Allen, in The Desert Is No Lady, Vera Norwood and Janice Monk (Editors), 1987, Yale University Press.
Interview with Joseph Bruchac, Greenfield Review, 1982, 2, 18.

Later, in 1976, she started studying at the University of New Mexico.

At the university, Luci met Leslie Marmon Silko, a well-known writer and poet.

The Desert is No Lady, a 51 minute film directed by Janice Monk, Shelley Williams, Producer. She serves on the Advisory Boards of the Telluride Institute Writers Forum and has been a member of the New Mexico Arts Commission Literature Panel and the Kansas Arts Commission.

Books by Luci Tapahonso or containing her work      

Songs of Shiprock Fair, illustrated by Anthony Emerson, [Children's book]
Kiva Press.
In 1864
It Has Always Been This Way
Light a Candle
Outside a Small House
Pay Up Or Else
Prayer
Sháá Áko Dahjiníeh
Remember the Things They Told Us
A Rough Life
She Sits on the Bridge
These Long Drives
They are Silent and Quick
They Are Together Now
What Danger We Court
A Whispered Chant of Loneliness
Who Were You?
Excerpt from Saánii Dahataa on the University of Arizona Press website.
Excerpt from Blue Horses Rush In on the University of Arizona Press website.

Awards

In 1999, Luci was names Storyteller of the Year for her readings and performances by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers.

Critical Boundaries and Luci Tapahonso's 'What I Am', Susan M. Brill,
in Wittgenstein and Critical Theory: Beyond Postmodern Criticism and Toward Descriptive Investigations, 1995, Ohio University Press. Luci first planned to study journalism, but Silko encouraged her to switch to creative writing.

Singing of Earth, The Nature Company, 1993.
Literature and Landscape: Writers of the Southwest, Cynthia Farah (Editor),
1988, Texas Western Press.
Home Places : Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks
(Sun Tracks, Vol 31) by Larry Evers (Editor), Ofelia Zepeda (Editor), Univ of Arizona Press.

Interview with John F. Crawford & Annie O. Eysturoy,
in This is About Vision: Interviews with Southwestern Writers, William Balassi, John F. Crawford, Annie O. Eysturoy (Editors), 1990, University of New Mexico Press. Her reputation grew even more with blue horses rush in, a book of poems and memories published in 1997.

In 2008, Luci Tapahonso released A Radiant Curve.

The Child in Contemporary America, Nancy M. Theriot (Editor),
Univ of New Mexico Press.
Here First
by Arnold Krupat & Brian Swann (Editors), Random House (Available Now!)
Luci Tapahonso and Simon Ortiz: Allegory.
The Sacred Hoop : Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions,
Paula Gunn Allen, Beacon Press.

In 2009, she moved back to the University of New Mexico, where she was educated, retiring from there in 2016 to write full-time. She is a recipient of a 2018 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Artist Fellowship.

Sisters of the Earth : Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature,
by Lorraine Anderson (Editor), Vintage Books.

Poets at Large : 25 Poets in 25 Homes,
H. L. Hix (Editor), Helicon Nine Editions.

luci tapahonso biography sample

Luci has received a 1998 Regional Book Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association, , a Southwestern Association for Indian Affairs Literature Fellowship, an Excellent Instructor Award at the University of New Mexico, a New Mexico Eminent Scholar Award from the New Mexico Commission of Higher Education, the Hall Center Creative Fellowship Award, a Southwest Book Award for Saánii Dahataa from the Border Regional Library Association, an Honorable Mention in the American Book Awards in 1983 for Seasonal Woman, and the 1995 Frost Place Poet-In-Residence.

She has also been named a Woman of Distinction by the American Girl Scout Council in 1996, Influential Professor by the Lady Jayhawks Faculty Recognition panel in 1994, an Outstanding Native American Woman by the City of Sacramento in 1993, the Grand Marshal of the Northern Navajo Nation Fair Parade in Shiprock in 1992, and one of the Top Women of the Navajo Nation by Maazo Magazine.