T255.
Indigenous-Aboriginal American Writers Caucus
Thursday, February 8, 2024
6:30 pm to 7:45 pm
Indigenous writers and scholars participate fluidly in AWP by teaching and directing affiliated programs, working as independent writers/scholars in language revitalization and local community programming. Annually imparting field-related craft, pedagogy, celebrations, and concerns as understood by Indigenous-Native writers from the Americas and surrounding island nations is necessary. Essential program development continues in 2024.
Participants
Deborah Taffa is the director of the MFA CW at IAIA in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Winner of the PEN Jean Stein Grant, her memoir Whiskey Tender is forthcoming from HarperCollins, February 20, 2024. A Public Space, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House, and Kranzberg fellow, she's from the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo.
Shauna Osborn is executive director of Puha Hubiya, a nonprofit literary arts organization, and author of Arachnid Verve (a poetry collection) which was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Awards. They have won awards from the New York Public Library, AROHO, TSWC, and a Crescendo Literary Fellowship.
