In-Store: An Evening with the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)

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• All attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times.
• RSVPs are required for this event, and walk-ins will be allowed based on capacity.
• Additional copies of the authors' books will be available for purchase at the event.
• A signing will follow the talk.
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Join us to celebrate the Institute of American Indian Arts and its mission to embrace the past, enrich the present, and create the future, by supporting and uplifting Native American and Indigenous writers, artists, and scholars.

Featuring readings from students, alumni, and faculty of IAIA's acclaimed MFA program, including MFA Program Director Deborah Jackson Taffa (Whiskey Tender), visiting writer m.s RedCherries (Mother), and alumni Lily Philpott and Julianne Warren, we look forward to introducing you to established writers forming the contemporary Indigenous literary canon, and emerging writers breaking new ground.

THIS IS A 2024 OFFICIAL BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT.

Born in Santiago, Chile and raised in New England, Lily Philpott is an Indigenous transracial adoptee. She has worked in the nonprofit sector in New York City for close to a decade, and is a member of the Starlings Collective, a group supporting BIPOC adoptee writers; a co-chair of the International Literature Committee at the Brooklyn Book Festival; and she volunteers as the Director of Programs with Singapore Unbound. She received her MFA in Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA).

m.s. RedCherries received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a JD from Arizona State University College of Law. She is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and lives in Brooklyn. Her debut collection, mother, was released in July 2024 from Penguin Books.

Deborah Taffa’s memoir, Whiskey Tender has been named to 2024 best lists at Esquire, Oprah Daily, ELLE, and The Washington Post. With fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, MacDowell, and the NY State Summer Writers Institute, Deborah received her MFA in creative nonfiction writing in Iowa City. A citizen of the Kwatsaan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo, she is the director of the MFA CW program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM.

Julianne Warren (she/her, settler) is a writer and activist with an MFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and a PhD in wildlife ecology from the University of Illinois. She has authored two books - a colonialist one and an anti-colonialist rejoinder (forthcoming). Julianne also has co/authored various creative works, which, increasingly, have been in collaboration with birds - living and dead. Julianne is currently visiting on the faculty of NYU Liberal Studies. She makes her home, gratefully, in lower Tanana Dene lands Fairbanks, Alaska.

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