
Contributor to periodicals, including New York Times Book Review. Tinker), God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, 30th Anniversary Edition, Fulcrum Publishing (Golden, CO), 2003.Īuthor of stories, including "Bravura," "Humaweepi, the Warrior Priest," "Laughing and Loving," "Lullaby," "Private Property," and "Tony's Story." Work represented in anthologies, including The Man to Send Rain-clouds, Viking (New York, NY), 1974, and Norton Anthology of Women's Literature, 5th edition, second volume, W.W. Arnold, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 2000. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1996.Ĭonversations with Leslie Marmon Silko, edited by L. Rooster and the Power of Love (correspondence), W.W. Sacred Water: Narratives and Pictures, Flood Plain Press (Tuscon, AZ), 1993. Yellow Woman (criticism), edited by Melody Graulich, Rutgers University Press ( New Brunswick, NJ), 1993. Wright) Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright, Graywolf Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1985.

(With Frank Chin) Lullaby (a play adaptation of a story by Silko), produced in San Francisco, 1976.Īrrowboy and the Witches (film), Video Tape Co. Rain (poems), Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Grenfell Press (New York, NY), 1996. Voices under One Sky (poems) Crossing Press (Freedom, CA), 1994. Storyteller (includes short stories), Seaver Books (New York, NY), 1981. Laguna Woman, Greenfield Review Press (Greenfield Center, NY), 1974. Gardens in the Dunes, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1999. WRITINGS: NOVELSĪlmanac of the Dead, Simon & Shuster ( New York, NY), 1991. MacArthur Foundation genius grant, 1983 Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award, 1994 named a Living Cultural Treasure, New Mexico Humanities Council Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, 2000. (summa cum laude), 1969.ĪDDRESSES: Home-8000 West Camireo Del Certo, Tucson, AZ 85705.ĬAREER: Novelist, poet, and essayist schoolteacher, Keresan cultural historian teacher, Navajo Community College, Tsaile, AZ was associated with the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM former assistant professor of English and fiction writing at University of Arizona, Tucson founder, Laguna Film Project.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Grant from National Endowment for the Arts and poetry award from Chicago Review, both 1974 Rosewater Foundation grant Pushcart Prize for poetry, 1977 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 1980, for Ceremony National Endowment for the Humanities grant, 1980 John D. Education: University of New Mexico, received B.A. Marmon (a photographer) children: two sons.

PERSONAL: Born March 5, 1948, in Albuquerque, NM daughter of Lee H.
