Luci Tapahonso
Poet Laureate of Navajo Nation, 2013–2015
Luci Tapahonso is a Diné poet and the author of three children’s books. Her six books of poetry include A Radiant Curve (University of Arizona Press, 2008). A recipient of a 2018 National Artist Fellowship from the Native American Arts and Culture Foundation and an artist residency at Bosque Redondo Memorial, Tapahonso served as the inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo Nation from 2013 to 2015.
Tapahonso is a professor emerita of English literature at the University of New Mexico. She lives in Santa Fe, on ancestral Tewa land.