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| Laura Tohe is Diné (Navajo). She was born in Fort Defiance, Arizona, and grew up near the Chuska Mountains on the eastern boarder of the Navajo reservation.
She attended both boarding schools and public schools in Albuquerque.
Laura has a B.A. in psychology from the University of New Mexico, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska where she received both a Regent Fellowship and Minority Fellowships.
In 1999 she was named Writer of the Year - Poetry for No Parole Today by the Wordcradt Circle of Native Writers.
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Her work has been translated into modern dance and music by The Moving Company in Omaha.
Her work also appears in an anthology, Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on
Community. She has received honors from the Nebraska Humanities Council and the Goodrich Program of the University of Nebraska.
She is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Arizona State University.
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