Jamie Figueroa

Jamie Figueroa is the author of the critically acclaimed novel "Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer," published by Catapult in 2021. The book was shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. It was also named an Indie Next pick, a Good Morning America must-read selection, and appeared on most-anticipated debut lists by Bustle, Electric Literature, The Millions, and The Rumpus. Publishers Weekly praised the novel for its "spellbinding prose" and "full-hearted characters that nearly jump off the page."

Figueroa is a faculty member in the MFA Creative Writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her writing has appeared in prominent publications such as American Short Fiction, Emergence Magazine, Elle, McSweeney’s, Agni, The New York Times, and The Boston Review. A Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) alum, she has been recognized with a Truman Capote Award and was a Bread Loaf Rona Jaffe Scholar. Of Boricua (Afro-Taíno) descent and originally from Ohio, Figueroa has been a longtime resident of northern New Mexico.