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Nora Marks Dauenhauer

Nora Marks Dauenhauer was raised in Juneau and Hoonah. Her first language is Tlingit; she began to learn English when entering school at the age of eight. She has a B.A. in Anthropology and is internationally recognized for her fieldwork, transcription, translation, and explication of Tlingit oral literature. Her creative writing has been widely published and anthologized. Her Raven plays have been performed in several venues internationally, including the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In 1980 she was named Humanist of the Year by the Alaska Humanities Forum. In 1989 she received an Alaska Governor’s Award for the Arts, and in 1991 she was a winner of the Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award. From 1983 to 1997 she was Principal Researcher in Language and Cultural Studies at Sealaska Heritage Foundation in Juneau. She received the 2005 Community Spirit Award from First People’s Fund of Rapid City, S.D. She is married to Richard Dauenhauer and lives in Juneau.