About Greg Sarris

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however.

  • 2018 March
    Editors Award. How A Mountain Was Made. Sonoma County Historical Society.
  • 2003
    Hugo Award for Best Documentary. American Passages.
  • 2003
    Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Script. Mission Indians.
  • 2003 January
    Hugo Award for Best Documentary. American Passages
  • 2002 October
    Writer in Residence. Syracuse University
  • 2002 October 11-18
    “Greg Sarris Week” A week of readings at Santa Rosa Junior College.
  • 2001 November
    Governor’s Commendation (from Governor Gray Davis) for Service to American Indian Community. Los Angeles.
  • 2001
    Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for Best Script. Mission Indians
  • 2000 October
    California Indian Writer of the Year from the 15th Annual California Indian Conference.
  • 1998 September 25
    Award for Outstanding Service from California Indian Legal Services.
  • 1998 July
    Best Screenplay Nomination. Grand Avenue. London Native American Film Festival.
  • 1998 July
    Best Picture. Grand Avenue. London Native American Film Festival.
  • 1997
    Adlai Stevenson Scholar in Residence. Stevenson College. UC Santa Cruz.
  • 1997
    Writer in Residence. Humboldt State University.
  • 1997
    Writer in Residence. Dallas College.
  • 1997
    Greg Sarris Scholarship Fund (for Native American Students) Santa Rosa Junior College.
  • 1997
    Distinguished Alumnus Award. Santa Rosa Junior College.
  • 1997
    California Independent Booksellers Award. Best Read. Fiction. Grand Avenue.
  • 1997
    Cable-Ace Nomination. Grand Avenue. Best Editing.
  • 1997
    Emmy Nomination. Grand Avenue. Best Casting.
  • 1997
    Producer’s Award. Grand Avenue. First Americans in the Arts.
  • 1997
    Best Picture. Grand Avenue. First Americans in the Arts.
  • 1997
    Best Screenplay. Outstanding Achievement in Writing. Grand Avenue. First Americans in the Arts.
  • 1996
    Writer in Residence. PEN Programs
  • 1996
    Best Story. Grand Avenue. American Indian Film Festival.
  • 1996
    Best Picture. Grand Avenue. American Indian Film Festival.
  • 1996
    Best Screenplay. Grand Avenue. Native American Film Exposition.
  • 1996
    Best Picture. Grand Avenue. Native American Film Exposition.
  • 1996
    Humanitarian Award. Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce.
  • 1996
    Work of Literary Merit. Grand Avenue. Santa Rosa Junior College English Department.
  • 1996
    Required reading for all English 1A courses.
  • 1996
    Scholar in Residence. Greg Sarris Week. Santa Rosa Junior College.