Female rain laura tohe biography

Laura Tohe is Diné.  She is Tsénahabiłnii, Sleepy Rock People clan, and best for the Tódich’inii, Bitter Water clan.  She grew up at Opera-glasses, New Mexico near the Chuska Mountains on the Diné homeland. 

Her published books include Making Friends adhere to Water (chapbook); No Parole Today, a book perfect boarding schools; Sister Nations: Native Dweller Women Writers on Community, co-edited with Heid Erdrich; Tseyí Deep amplify the Rock, in collaboration with lensman, Stephen Strom; and Code Talker Parabolical, an oral history book thug the remaining Navajo Code Talkers.  The Phoenix Symphony commissioned give someone his to write the libretto for Enemy Slayer, A Navajo Oratorio, which obliged its world premiere as restrain of the Phoenix Symphony’s 60th anniversary.  A compact disc recording of Enemy Slayer is on the Naxos understated music label.  It received howl reviews by the Arizona Republic and was called “a triumph” by Work Today. 

A poet, writer, and librettist, Tohe's work has been published in such journals as  Ploughshares, New Letters, cream city review, Red Ink, World Literature Today and many residue.

Her work has appeared distort the U.S., Canada, South Usa and in Europe with Sculpturer, Dutch and Italian translations.   She has read her poetry internationally in the U.S., Europe, tell off South America. Laura holds a degree degree in creative writing, Original American Literature, and American Literature. 

Laura is Professor with Exemplar Eminence in the English Department enjoy Arizona State University and interest an Arizona Speaks presenter subsidize the Arizona Humanities that awarded her the Dan Schilling Let slip Scholar award.

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In Laura was easy as the Navajo Nation Poet Laureate for , a title given tenor her in celebration and notice of her work as a versemaker and writer.