Native American Authors

Carol Lee Sanchez, 1934-

Laguna Pueblo

Sioux

Carol Lee Sanchez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in the village of Pagute. Sanchez received her B.A. in Arts Administration from San Francisco State University in 1978. She has been involved with American Indian Women Painters, Third World Women in the Arts, National Women’s Studies Association at San Francisco State University and is Affirmative Action Committee chair for theCalifornia Association ofEnglish. She is also a painter.

Awards and Honors

Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year (Poetry) award, 1997 (for from Spirit to Matter)

Online resources by or about Carol Lee Sanchez:

Carol Lee Sanchez
Author: Missouri Center for the Book
Type: authorbio
Description: Information about Sanchez from the Missouri Authors Directory.

URL: http://authors.missouri.org/sanchez-c.html

Carol Lee Sanchez
Author: Carol Lee Sanchez and Karen Strom
Type: authorbio
Description: Biographical and bibliographical information about Sanchez.

URL: http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/clsanchez/

For the cloud people
Author: Carol Lee Sanchez
Type: etext
Description: Full text of the poem by Carol Lee Sanchez from Excerpts from a mountain climber’s handbook.

URL: http://www.hanksville.org/voyage/poems/rain/rain3.html

Books by Carol Lee Sanchez:

Sanchez, Carol Lee. Excerpts from a mountain climber’s handbook : selected poems, 1971-1984
San Francisco : Taurean Horn Press/Out West Ltd, 1985.
Genre: Poetry

Sanchez, Carol Lee. From spirit to matter : new and selected poems, 1969-1996
San Francisco : Taurean Horn Press/Out West Ltd, 1997.
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0931552095

Sanchez, Carol Lee. Message bringer woman
Taurean Horn Press, 1977.

Sanchez, Carol Lee. She poems
Goshen, Conn : Chicory Blue Press, 1995.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0961911190

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