Vee F. Browne is from Cottonwood/Tselani Arizona, and a member of the Navajo Nation, belonging to the Bitter Water and Water Flows Together clans. She obtained her M.A. from Western New Mexico University in 1990, and M.Ed from Northern Arizona University in School Administration in 2008. She is an appointed member of the Navajo Nation School Board of Education.

An award-winning author, she has received much acclaim for her children's books, including Monster Slayer and Monster Birds. Northland Press has published her books on Navajo folktales. Her other children's books are: Maria Tallchief and the Owl Book.

In addition, Vee's short stories and poems have appeared in several anthologies and journals. Her new book, "The Stone Cutter and the Navajo Maiden" will in the bookstores in the spring 2008.

For scheduling Vee for book signing, school-wide authors visitation, engagements, as a panelist for poets/childrens books, storytelling or reading poetry, she may be contacted at:

928-725-3538

or

 vfbrowne@hotmail.com

Awards 

Monster Slayer received the Western Heritage - Cowboy Hall of Fame Award in 1991.

Vee has received the Buddy Bo Jack Nationwide Award for Humanitarianism for Children's Books.

Her book, Monster Birds, received the Rounce & Coffin Club - Los Angeles 1994 Western Books Award of Merit.

Books by Vee F. Browne

Poetry

Ravens Dancing, 1stbooks.com. Can be purchased electronically as a PDF file [2.6Mby] from 1st Books.

Children's Books

 NEW The Stone Cutter & The Navajo Maiden, Johnson Yazzie, Illustrator, Salina Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ                                                 ISBN 978-189335492-0   Price $17.95

Monster Slayer, Baje Whitethorne, Illustrator, Northland Pub.

Animal Lore & Legend: Owl, Scholastic books.

Maria Tallchief, Harcourt Brace Co., August 2000 - Educational Assessment - Securitied document/ Sunset Charmer, poem

Maria Tallchief, Prima Ballerina, Modern Curriculum.

Monster Birds, Baje Whitethorne, Illustrator, Northland Pub.

Anthologies and Journals

Sister Nations: Native Women Writing on Community Anthology, Heid Erdrich and Laura Tohe (Editors), New Rivers Press.

Neon Pow-Wow: New Native American Voices of the Southwest, Anna Lee Walters (Editor), Northland Publishing.

Blue Dawn, Red Earth: New Native American Storytellers, Clifford E. Trafzer (Editor), Anchor Books

Red Ink, Volume 8, Number I, Fall 1999, contains "The Ballad of Ira Hayes."

Eclectic Literary Forum, Volume 3, Number 3, Fall 1993, contains "Legend of Monster Lake."