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Luri Owen has lived most of her life in the American West, learning stories and songs from her cowboy father while her mother gardened, canned and cooked what the family ate. She began learning about Native American cultures at the age of six when her father hired a young Navajo man to work on their Colorado ranch. Her interest merged with her career in 2016 when she began teaching at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, NM, a national Native American community college.
Luri began teaching international college students in 1984 and earned a Master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in 1986. She reminds her students that readers read what writers write, and that it is the responsibility of the writer to compose clear sentences and strong paragraphs that lead readers comfortably through a story or essay. She believes that narration is the foundation of academic writing and encourages writers to allow their passion for a topic to shape the information they transfer to the page or screen.
Luri enjoys reading and writing poetry and is excited about introducing contemporary American regional poets to readers in Norway. She is a Veriditas Certified Labyrinth Facilitator and a Reiki II practitioner who also loves music and reading.
