Join the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) from Sunday, July 6, through Thursday, July 10, 2025, as the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFACW) program presents its 2025 July Residency, welcoming a new cohort of incoming graduate students. Visiting writers, acclaimed for their work in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting, will read and perform alongside several of our full-time mentors. Each evening will engage audiences with poetry, memoir, or fiction from some of today’s most vibrant and vital voices.
We are pleased to invite the public to attend the July Evening Reading Series events, held virtually via livestream and in person in the CLE Commons Room 201 on the IAIA campus at 83 Avan Nu Po Road, Santa Fe, NM 87508.
All readings are open and free to the public. We hope to see you there!
For questions, please contact IAIA MFACW Program Coordinator Veronica Bustamante at
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Biographies—
Annie Wenstrup (Dena’ina) lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, with her family. She is a Smithsonian Arctic Studies Fellow, an Inaugural Indigenous Nations Poetry Fellow, and an Inuit Art Quarterly Fellow. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Ecotone, Nimrod, Palette, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, and Ran Off with the Star Bassoon. She is the author of The Museum of Unnatured Histories (Wesleyan Press), which won a 2025 Writing Award.
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was born in the Rio Grande Valley to Mexican immigrants. She is the author of the essay collection Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders (Tiny Reparations Books, 2024), longlisted for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and the poetry collection Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, 2017), recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award nomination, and winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar, Oxford American, Paris Review, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and holds a doctorate in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she lives with her son and a loyal dog.
Marcie Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, author, playwright, poet, and freelance writer. Also a community arts activist, Rendon supports other Native artists/writers/creators to pursue their art and is a speaker for colleges and community groups on Native issues, leadership, and writing. She is an award-winning author of a fresh new murder mystery series and also has an extensive body of fiction and nonfiction works. The creative mind behind Raving Native Theater, Rendon has also curated community-created performances such as Art Is… Creative Native Resilience, featuring three Anishinaabe performance artists, premiered on TPT (Twin Cities Public Television) in June 2019. Rendon was recognized as a 50 Over 50 Change-maker by MN AARP and POLLEN in 2018. Rendon and Diego Vazquez received a 2017 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with women incarcerated in county jails.
Learn more at
https://iaia.edu/2025-mfacw-july-evening-reading-series/
Sunday, July 6 at 6:00 pm (MST): Readings by Jennifer Givham (Mexican American), Pam Houston, and Anne Haven McDonnell—CLE Commons, IAIA Campus
Monday, July 7 at 6:00 pm (MST): Readings by Chip Livingston (Mixed-blood Creek), Kelli Jo Ford (Cherokee Nation), and Michaela M.S. Redcherries (Northern Cheyenne Nation)—CLE Commons, IAIA Campus
Tuesday, July 8 at 6:00 pm (MST): Film Clips and Interview Featuring Billy Luther (Navajo, Hopi, and Laguna Pueblo) and Deborah Taffa (Quechan Nation, Laguna Pueblo, and Chicana)—CLE Commons, IAIA Campus, no livestream available
Wednesday, July 9 at 6:00 pm (MST): Readings by Annie Wenstrup (Dena’ina), Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (Mexican American), and Marcie Rendon (White Earth Nation)—CLE Commons, IAIA Campus
Thursday, July 10 at 6:00 pm (MST): Readings by Bojan Louis (Diné), Brooke Swaney (Blackfeet Nation Citizen and Salish Descendant), and Jake Fournier—CLE Commons, IAIA Campus
You may also like the following events from Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA):
- Next Sunday, 6th July, 06:00 pm, 2025 MFACW July Evening Reading Series: Jennifer Givham, Pam Houston, and Anne Haven McDonnell in Santa Fe
- Next month, 7th July, 06:00 pm, 2025 MFACW July Evening Reading Series: Chip Livingston, Kelli Jo Ford, Michaela M.S. Redcherries in Santa Fe
- Next month, 8th July, 06:00 pm, 2025 MFACW July Evening Reading Series: Film Clips/Interview Featuring Billy Luther, Deborah Taffa in Santa Fe
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