Laura Tohe (born 1952) is a Native American author and poet.

[1] She is poet laureate of the Navajo Nation for 2015–2019,[2] and is a professor emerita of English at Arizona State University.

[3] Tohe was born in Fort Defiance, Arizona, the daughter of a Navajo code talker.

[2] She grew up speaking both Diné bizaad/Navajo language and English and was punished in school for speaking her native language due to assimilation.

She has been affiliated with Arizona State University since 1994.