Luci Tapahonso - Literacy Volunteers Book Festival

4^th ANNUAL NORTHERN ARIZONA BOOK FESTIVAL

Luci Tapahonso
Tucson, Arizona

Luci Tapahonso is originally from Shiprock, New Mexico, and is currently a Professor of American Indian Studies and English at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She is the author of five books of poetry including Blue Horses Rush In, which was awarded the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association’s 1998 award for poetry. She is also the author of three children’s books including Songs of Shiprock Fair (1999). Her poems have been translated into German, Italian, and French. She is recipient of numerous awards including The 1998 Kansas Governor’s Art Award and the Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers 1999 “Storyteller of the Year.” She was featured in Rhino Records’ CD, In Their Own Voices: A Century of American Poetry, and in the films: The Desert is No Lady, Art of the Wild, and Woven by the Grandmothers: An Exhibition of 19^th Century Navajo Textiles, which were all released on PBS stations.

Book List

Blue Horses Rush in: Poems (1997), $11.58, Paperback, University of Arizona Press, ISBN: 0816517282 – available.

Saanii Dahataal: The Women Are Singing: Poems and Stories (1993), Paperback, University of Arizona Press, ISBN: 0816513619 – available.

Songs of Shiprock Fair, ages 4-8 (1999), $15.95, Hardcover, Kiva Publishing, ISBN: 1885772114 – available.

Navajo ABC: A Dine Alphabet Book, ages 4-8, $5.99, Paperback, Aladdin Paperbacks, ISBN: 0689826850 – available.

A Breeze Swept Through (1987), $7.95, Paperback, University of New Mexico Press, ISBN: 0931122457 – back order.

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