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—
Bojan Louis (Diné) is a poet, essayist, short story writer, and mentor in the MFACW program. He is the author of the short story collection Sinking Bell, the poetry collection Currents, and the nonfiction chapbook Troubleshooting Silence in Arizona. His work can be found in Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers; When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry; and The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature. Louis has received a MacDowell Fellowship and a 2018 American Book Award.
Brooke Swaney is a 2003 Stanford graduate. She went on to obtain her MFA from NYU. A 2013 Native Arts and Cultures Fellow, a 2014 Sundance Native Lab Fellow, and a Time Warner Fellow, her work has screened at Sundance, ImagineNative, the Autry, and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. She is versed in both short- and long-form content creation.
Jake Fournier is a poet and firefighter based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa and a PhD from the University of Chicago, where he studied abolitionist poetics. His debut poetry collection, Punishment Bag, is forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press in 2026.
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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