The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation

Project Title: All the Bones Have Fallen

Award-winning author, Deborah Jackson Taffa, is the director of the MFA CW Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her memoir Whiskey Tender was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award, as well as a longlisted title for a 2025 Carnegie Medal. Named a top book of 2024 by The Atlantic, Time Magazine, NPR, Elle, Esquire, Oprah Daily, Audible, and Publisher's Weekly, the memoir won both a Southwest Book Prize and an International Latino Book Award. Taffa is a 2024 NEA Fellow, a 2022 winner of the PEN Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History, and has received fellowships from Tin House, the University of Iowa, MacDowell, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Ellen Meloy Fund, and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. She is a citizen of the Kwatsaan Nation and Laguna Pueblo and earned her nonfiction MFA in Iowa City.