Writer Jamie Figueroa, a part of the Witter-Bynner Indigenous Writers Series

The author of the critically-acclaimed novel Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer and professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts comes to N-A-U campus, presented by the M-F-A in Creative Literature Program. With special guest, NAU professor and author Rima Brusi.

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This event is free and open to the public. Masks required for in-person attendees.

FIGUEROA is the author of the critically acclaimed novel BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER, which “brims with spellbinding prose, magical elements, and wounded, fullhearted characters that nearly jump off the page” (Publishers Weekly). Figueroa is Boricua (Afro-Taíno) by way of Ohio and is a longtime resident of northern New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, McSweeney’s, and Agni, among others. She received a Truman Capote Award and was a Bread Loaf Rona Jaffe Scholar. A VONA alum, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she is now an assistant professor.

BRUSI is an anthropologist, advocate, educator, and author of four nonfiction books, most recently the illustrated essay collection CHULOS DE LA POBREZA. Over the last two decades, she has engaged in research, writing, public anthropology, and advocacy related to Puerto Rico’s society, culture, and public education in the context of colonialism, disaster capitalism, and the debt economy. Brusi holds a Ph.D. from Cornell and has taught at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez and Lehman College, and was the Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at CUNY. She is a professor at NAU and lives in Flagstaff. Her reading will be in Spanish.