Jamie Figueroa (Taíno)

Jamie Figueroa (Taíno)
Jamie Figueroa (Taíno)
Story Consultant

Jamie Figueroa is the author of the critically acclaimed novel BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER, which "brims with spellbinding prose, magical elements, and wounded, full-hearted characters that nearly jump off the page" (Publishers Weekly). Figueroa is Boricua (Afro-Taíno) by way of Ohio and is a longtime resident of northern New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, Emergence Magazine, Elle, McSweeney's, and Agni, among others. She received a Truman Capote Award and was a Bread Loaf Rona Jaffe Scholar. A VONA alum, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts.

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Eileen Olivieri
Producer
Lana Veenker
Lana Veekner
Alisabeth Brown
Alisabeth Brown
Creative Producer
Kari Paulson
Kari Paulson
Writer
Kim Stafford
Kim Stafford
Advisor
Sasha LaPointe
Sasha LaPointe
Writer/Story Consultant