Margo Tamez

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Margo Tamez is a Lipan Apache and Jumano Apache activist, poet, and scholar. The daughter of Eloisa Garcia Tamez,a nurse and community member of El Calaboz rancheria, of the Lower Rio Grande Valley region, and Luis Carrasco Tamez of Premont, Texas, she was raised in San Antonio, Texas during the Civil Rights and Vietnam era.

Her writing focuses on Native American responses to racism, gender inequity, and colonization of indigenous groups in North America.

She is the Co-Founder of the Lipan Apache Women (El Calaboz) Defense, a land-based Indigenous People's Organization, recognized by the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The organization promotes social justice, environmental, human, indigenous rights and de-militarization policies in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, North America. Tamez is noted as an activist and cultural critic whose work demonstrates dissent against the construction of the border wall / border fence along the United States-Mexico border and state violence against Apache and indigenous communities.

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[edit] Awards

Margo's awards include a Poetry Fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, First Place Literary Award from Frontera Literary Review, Environmental Leadership Fellowship Award, Distinguished Achievement Award, International Exchange Award from the Tucson Pima Arts Council and others. Her book RAVEN EYE (Arizona 2007) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry by the University of Arizona Press.

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[edit] Writing Available Online

[edit] Poetry

Naked Wanting
- Review of Naked Wanting in the Tucson Weekly
- Review of Naked Wanting in the Albuquerque Alibi
Raven Eye

[edit] Anthologies

Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems Inspired by Ken Saro-Wiwa
Sister Nations, Heid Erdrich and Laura Tohe (Editors), New Rivers Press.
Stories from Where We Live: The Gulf Coast, Sara St. Antoine (Editor), Milkweed Editions.
Southwestern Women: New Voices, Caitlin L. Gannon (Editor), Javelina Pr.