Leslie Marmon Silko
Poetry Foundation. “Leslie Marmon Silko.” Poetryfoundation.org. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lesliemarmon-silko. 21, Sep. 2017.
Leslie Marmon Silko was born in 1948 in New Mexico to a well-known photographer Lee Marmon and his wife Mary Virginia Leslie. She is mixed with Mexican and Anglo-American background. Leslie grew up on a reservation called Laguna Pueblo. She attended a school on her reservation until fifth grade, she then relocated to a Catholic school in Albuquerque. She was not allowed to speak her language but it never stopped her from becoming successive. She then went and got her Bachelor’s degree at University of New Mexico in 1969. The same year she printed her first story “The Man to Send Rain Clouds.” She attended law school for a short time but left to continue her writing in 1971. She won an award called the National Endowment for the Arts Discovery Grant in 1971. Leslie accomplished many things throughout her career. She was awarded a-lot throughout her years of writing including for the Pushcart Prize for poetry and the MacArthur “Genius” Award. …show more content…
This all ties into my genre regionalism and culture majorly. Most of her work is fiction though she does have some non-fiction. The Native American culture is slowly dying down and so are there traditions Silko is trying to keep those traditions and myths alive in her work and express the things her culture has been through and is still going through till this day, she wants to be at peace with the white culture. Their region is very small and protected and they are trying to make it last as long as they can. Silko wants her reservation as well as others to come together and keep their culture and traditions going as well as being able to blend and become