
Deborah Jackson Taffa
@deborahtaffa
MFACW Dir at IAIA/ Author: WHISKEY TENDER @HarperBooks/ ‘24 Nat’l Book Award Finalist/ ‘25 Carnegie Medal Longlister/ Yuma Nation, Laguna Pueblo/ Left X 11.6.24
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I was thrilled to read w NDN Girls Book Club today. The highlight was buying ₊ ⊹ ₊ ⊹ kinsale ₊ ⊹ ₊ ⊹ new poetry collection! Order yours ASAP 🌼🦋🌼


Honor Moore presents A Termination | Wish I was out East on Sept 5! Don’t miss Honor’s latest apublicspace mcnallyjackson.com/honor-moore-pr…

Esquire’s Best Memoirs of 2024 (So Far) was updated today, Whiskey Tender’s 6th month bday. We’re in the best of company w @zoebossiere, Chris LaTray, Sarah Labrie, & many luminous others. TY Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky esquire.com/entertainment/…

congrats Deborah Jackson Taffa on your NBA nomination AND for somehow resisting the scourge of literary nonfiction: the drearily descriptive subtitle

Super excited to be among the featured authors at this year’s Texas Book Festival in Austin, in the company of so many writers I admire, including Jonathan Blitzer Cristina Rivera Garza Deborah Jackson Taffa Paola Ramos Rita Bullwinkel Matthew McConaughey and many others whose books I want to read!



Congratulations to Deborah Jackson Taffa whose memoir WHISKEY TENDER is a National Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction!

Deborah Jackson Taffa's (21) MacDowell-supported memoir, WHISKEY TENDER, is a finalist for the National Book Foundation's 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction! nationalbook.org/books/whiskey-… #NBAwards


Today we celebrate #IndigenousPeoplesDay! Watch our Heartland Book Fest event w/ American Library Association president Cindy Hohl (Santee Sioux Nation of NE) & authors Tommy Orange (Cheyenne Arapaho Tribes of OK) & Deborah Jackson Taffa (Quechan (Yuma) Nation & Laguna Pueblo): youtube.com/live/QHeOTj9v1…



