Deborah Taffa

Deborah Taffa is the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. The winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Grant, her memoir Whiskey Tender is forthcoming from Harper in 2023. A Public Space, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House, and Kranzberg Fellow, she is from the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo, and earned her nonfiction MFA in Iowa City, IA.