Deborah Jackson Taffa

The honor of a lifetime! Thank you for seeing the value in my American story, and congratulations to all the authors.

@Abbas_Muntaqim The climate crisis is the true difference between them. Belief/denial matters to everyone on the planet.

Fascism is already here. It's been here. If Kamala won fascism would expand. Now that Trump won fascism too will expand. This is what amerikan capitalist imperialism is about. And it will always continue to function this way. This system cannot be fixed. It cannot be integrated into. It’s genocidal no matter what warmongering commander in chief is in position. We must become our own liberators and free ourselves from this genocidal system.

Latino people forgetting their Indigenous bloodlines to believe in hatred and fear. This is what I’ve been writing about. The earth grows sick and sicker.

@chenchenwrites But also, and 😅

trying to write essays that are essays and not just longer poems lol. but also what are essays and what are poems. but also i kinda do know. but also

@jbakernyc Jenny is a force! It’s true ✨🤩

Carnegie spent over $55 million of his wealth on libraries alone, and he is often referred to as the “Patron Saint of Libraries.” (Thank you, thank you.)

I’m so happy to see this. The more tragic the world, the more stubborn I become about laughter. #Gaza_life_matters #NativeLit

@Morgan_J_Talty Heck yeah! Fingers crossed for you 🥳

Saying I’m grateful and honored doesn’t come close to how I really feel but I guess that’s all I have—I’m grateful and honored that FireExit is a finalist for the 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award! Thank you 🙏 And congrats to all of the Finalists: kclibrary.org/news/2024-10/2…

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

We talked Whiskey Tender 🥃 and Wandering Stars ✨ w Tommy

@lsjamison Thank you, Leslie. I was at Laguna Feast Days two weeks ago and all my old aunties said they loved it. It feels like the best of both worlds. Thanks for your support.

Couldn’t be more thrilled for a wonderful book and the wonderful woman who wrote it! ❤️ @deborahtaffa has given us a layered and revelatory and utterly necessary book ✨

Congratulations to @deborahtaffa whose memoir WHISKEY TENDER is a National Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction!

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

@MacDowell1907 @PemiAguda @dlseuss Thank you!

Congratulations to all of the #NBAwards finalists this year, but especially MacDowell Fellows @PemiAguda (22), @deborahtaffa (21), and @dlseuss (15)!

@SFWP Thank you!

Congratulations to @deborahtaffa, one of our winners from the 2019 Literary Awards with judge Carmen Maria Machado, on being an NBA finalist for nonfiction with WHISKEY TENDER! buff.ly/3MTJHmg

Hey you beautiful people: Join us tomorrow night at Books Are Magic at 7pm. #2024brooklynbookfestival

@CLVoisine @NMSUVPR The luck is all mine! I can’t wait to hear Rodrigo read 📚

How lucky are we to be hosting Deborah Jackson Taffa at NMSU in Milton this coming Friday at 7:30 pm. We cannot wait. @NMSUVPR @deborahtaffa

Super excited to be among the featured authors at this year’s @texasbookfest in Austin, in the company of so many writers I admire, including @JonathanBlitzer @criveragarza @deborahtaffa @paoramos @RitaBullwinkel @McConaughey and many others whose books I want to read!

congrats @deborahtaffa on your NBA nomination AND for somehow resisting the scourge of literary nonfiction: the drearily descriptive subtitle

@KerryHowley That’s hysterical! I thought of you today when I noted mine was the only one without a subtitle. 🤍