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Deborah Taffa

Deborah Taffa
Deborah Jackson Taffa is the author of Whiskey Tender: A Memoir (Harper, 2024). She is a citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo. She earned her MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and is the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, A Public Space, Salon, The Huffington Post, Prairie Schooner, The Best Travel Writing, and other outlets.


From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

Deborah Taffa on Acknowledging America’s Genocide of Native People
February 28, 2024  By Deborah Taffa
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