Deborah Jackson Taffa 1 credits

Deborah Jackson Taffa is an Indigenous writer who is a member of the Quechan and Laguna Pueblo tribes. She is best known for her 2024 memoir Whiskey Tender. Whiskey Tender was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction. She earned a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. She is the director of the MFA creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Whiskey Tender details Taffa's early life, growing up in Yuma, Arizona and then Farmington, New Mexico. She explains how her parents both reconciled their families' histories in different ways.

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