Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko is the author of ten books of fiction, poetry, and memoir, including Ceremony, Storyteller, Almanac of the Dead, and The Turquoise Ledge. She received a “Genius Grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 1981 and the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. The singular achievement of Ceremony, published in 1977, secured her a place among the first rank of Native American novelists. She was recently awarded the 2020 lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2020 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement.