Deborah Jackson Taffa
Deborah Taffa’s debut, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir, was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award, and a longlisted title for a 2025 Carnegie Medal of Excellence. The memoir was named a Top Ten Book of 2024 by The Atlantic and Time Magazine, as well as a top book on longer lists at NPR, Elle, Esquire, Audible, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Publisher's Weekly. Taffa is a 2024 NEA Fellow, a 2022 winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Grant, and has received fellowships from the Tin House, University of Iowa, MacDowell, the Ellen Meloy Fund, and the NY State Summer Writers Institute. She is an enrolled citizen of the Kwatsaan (Yuma) Nation and a descendant of Laguna Pueblo. She directs the MFACW program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM.
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The Possibilities of the Essay: An Exploration of Forms and Typologies
