Laura Tohe is the current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate. She is an award-winning poet, and her books include No Parole Today, Making Friends with Water, Sister Nations, Tséyi, Deep in the Rock, and Code Talker Stories, which have appeared in the US, Canada, and Europe with French, Dutch, and Italian translations. Her commissioned librettos are Enemy Slayer, A Navajo Oratorio on the Naxos Classical Music label and Nahasdzáán in the Glittering World, with performances in France in 2019 and 2021. Among her awards are the 2019–2020 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the 2019 American Indian Festival of Writers Award, the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund Award, and the Dan Schilling Public Scholar Award; she was twice nominated for the Pushcart Award. She is Professor Emerita with Distinction from Arizona State University.