May 2022

Jamie Figueroa is Boricua (Afro-Taíno) by way of Ohio and long
time resident of northern New Mexico. Her writing has appeared
in McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, Agni and Emergence
Magazine among other journals.

Jamie received her MFA in Creative Writing from The Institute of
American Indian Arts where she is now an assistant professor.
Recipient of the Truman Capote award, and the Jack Kent Cooke
Graduate Arts award, she was also chosen as a Bread Loaf, Rona
Jaffe Scholar, and is a VONA alum. Brother, Sister, Mother,
Explorer (Catapult) is her debut novel.