Deborah Taffa

Deborah Jackson Taffa is the author of Whiskey Tender, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award and a longlisted 2025 Carnegie Medal title. Named a top book of 2024 by The Atlantic, Time, NPR, and The Washington Post, the memoir won a Southwest Book Prize, and an International Latino Book Award. Taffa is a 2024 NEA Fellow and 2026 Brown University Howard Fellow for her novel-in-progress, All the Bones Have Fallen. She is the director of the MFA CW program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM, and a board member with the Santa Fe International Literary Festival.