Roanhorse graduated from Yale University and later earned her JD degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law, specializing in Federal Indian Law and lived for several years on the Navajo Nation, where she clerked at the Navajo Supreme Court before working as an attorney. Members of the Ohkay Owingeh community have disputed her claim, saying she has no connection to their community. Roanhorse has said that she is of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo and African American descent, though she is not an enrolled tribal member. She reunited with her birth mother later in life, though they rarely speak. In a 2020 profile by Vulture Magazine, she said that at 7 years old she learned from looking at her birth certificate that she is "half-Black and half–Spanish Indian". She was adopted as a child by white parents. Her father was an economics professor, and her mother was a high school English teacher who encouraged Rebecca's early attempts at writing stories. Raised in northern Texas, she has said that "being a black and Native kid in Fort Worth in the '70s and '80s was pretty limiting" thus, she turned to reading and writing, especially science fiction, as a form of escape. Roanhorse was born Rebecca Parish in Conway, Arkansas in 1971. Her work has received Hugo and Nebula awards, among others. She has written short stories and science fiction novels featuring Navajo characters. Rebecca Roanhorse (born March 14, 1971) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer from New Mexico.
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