She is currently a professor at the University of Arizona at Tucson. Silko has taught English at the Navajo Community College in Tsaile, Arizona, and at the University of New Mexico. She has been named a Living Cultural Treasure by the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities Council, and has also received the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award. Silko's honors include a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Pushcart Prize for Poetry, and a Rosewater Foundation grant. Her other novels include Gardens in the Dunes (1999), and Almanac of the Dead (1992). A child of mixed Laguna Pueblo, Mexican, and white heritage, her first novel, Ceremony (1977), was one of the first published novels by an American Indian woman. It is her second published book, following Ceremony. She is also a writer of short stories and fiction. Storyteller is a collection of works, including photographs, poetry, and short stories by Leslie Marmon Silko. Her books of poetry include Storyteller (Seaver Books, 1981), and Laguna Women Poems (1974). She attended the University of New Mexico, and graduated with honors in 1969 with a B.A. Leslie Marmon Silko was born Main Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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