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—
Chip Livingston is the mixed-blood Creek author of six books: three collections of poetry, Saints of the Republic (2023), Crow-Blue, Crow-Black (2012), and Museum of False Starts (2010); a nonfiction book for elementary school students, Early People of Florida (2023); a collection of short stories and creative nonfiction, Naming Ceremony (2014); and a novel, Owls Don’t Have to Mean Death (2017). He is the editor of Love Loosha: The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie (2022). Chip has received awards from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, and the AABB Foundation. Chip’s writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, and Cincinnati Review, and on the Academy of American Poets’ and the Poetry Foundation’s websites. He has taught at the University of Colorado, the University of the Virgin Islands, Brooklyn College, and Regis University.
Kelli Jo Ford is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Her debut novel-in-stories, Crooked Hallelujah, was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Story Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Dublin Literary Award, and The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. She is the recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize, a Native Arts & Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and a Dobie Paisano Fellowship. She teaches writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Michaela M.S. Redcherries (Northern Cheyenne Nation) received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction and a JD from Arizona State University College of Law. She is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and lives in New York City. Her debut collection, mother (Penguin Books), was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award.
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, 8th July, 06:00 pm, 2025 MFACW July Evening Reading Series: Film Clips/Interview Featuring Billy Luther, Deborah Taffa in Santa Fe
- Next month, 9th July, 06:00 pm, 2025 MFACW July Evening Reading Series: Annie Wenstrup, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Marcie Rendon in Santa Fe
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