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El Palacio - Reading and Q@A
Meem Auditorium
September 8, 2024
2:00 pm through 3:00 pm
Please join us for a reading panel and Q&A with four contributors to the fall issue. Featured readings include:
•Deborah Taffa’s essay, excerpted from her memoir, Whiskey Tender, frames her family’s displacement within Indigenous histories of displacement and assimilation.
•Jim O’Donnell’s article about the Ancestral Puebloan migration from the Four Corners area in the 1200s due to the rise of authoritarianism.
•DezBaa´s article about the recent land exchanges Santa Ana Pueblo and the Fort Sill-Chiricahua -Warm Spring Apache completed with the New Mexico State Land Office.
•Myrriah Gómez’s article about Yvonne Montoya’s dance performance, Stories from Home, that recounts the ripple effects of displacement and cancer on Nuevomexicano families due to the creation of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Following the readings, editor of El Palacio, Emily Withnall, will facilitatea Q & A.
Light refreshments will be served.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
•Deborah Taffa’s memoir, Whiskey Tender, was named to 2024 best lists at Esquire, Oprah Daily, ELLE, and The Washington Post and she’s received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, MacDowell, and the NY State Summer Writers Institute. A citizen of the Kwatsaán (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo, she is the director of the Creative Writing MFA at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
•Jim O’Donnell is the author of Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River (2024) from Torrey House Press. Learn more at aroundtheworldineightyyears.com.
•DezBaa´ is a Diné multi-hyphenate artist: an essayist, screenwriter, actor, filmmaker, mind-body healing facilitator, and single parent. She is a “Norteña,” born in Santa Fe and raised in Northern New Mexico. DezBaa´ is a graduate of Northern New Mexico College, Amherst College, and the Institute of American Indian Arts, with a certificate and degrees in Massage Therapy, Geology, Screenwriting and Creative Non-fiction.
•Myrriah Gómez is from El Rancho in the Pojoaque Valley. She is the author of Nuclear Nuevo México.