Simon J. Ortiz

Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and storyteller and a retired Regents Professor of English and American Indian Studies at Arizona State University. Ortiz is the author of Out There Somewhere, Men on the Moon: Collected Short Stories, After and Before the Lightning, Woven Stone, and from Sand Creek. He is also the editor of Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection and Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on Writing, as well as the author of the children’s book, The Good Rainbow Road. In 1982, Ortiz won a Pushcart Prize for from Sand Creek. He is also the recipient of the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, the New Mexico Humanities Council Humanitarian Award, the National Endowment for the Arts Discovery Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and he was an Honored Poet at the 1981 White House Salute to Poetry. In 1993, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Returning the Gift Festival of Native Writers (the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers) and the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas.
After and Before the Lightning After and Before the Lightning
After and Before the Lightning

After and Before the Lightning

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Beyond the Reach of Time and Change Beyond the Reach of Time and Change
Beyond the Reach of Time and Change

Beyond the Reach of Time and Change

Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection

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The Good Rainbow Road The Good Rainbow Road
The Good Rainbow Road

The Good Rainbow Road

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Light As Light Light As Light
Light As Light

Light As Light

Poems

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Men on the Moon Men on the Moon
Men on the Moon

Men on the Moon

Collected Short Stories

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Out There Somewhere Out There Somewhere
Out There Somewhere

Out There Somewhere

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Speaking for the Generations Speaking for the Generations
Speaking for the Generations

Speaking for the Generations

Native Writers on Writing

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Urban Voices Urban Voices
Urban Voices

Urban Voices

The Bay Area American Indian Community

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