<p>Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, 1948) is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.</p>
<p>Silko was a debut recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant, now known as the &#8220;Genius Grant&#8221;, in 1981 and the Native Writers&#8217; Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.</p>
