Hi! My name is Sarah Camille Chiago I am an enrolled member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. This is my first year here at IAIA and I'm majoring in Creative Writing.Read More

I am a young mother of 5 beautiful kids that I raise. I just started out new to this college. I am hoping to build success in my journey here. I am working towards my major in Studio Arts and...Read More

Gabriel Schneider is a freshman at IAIA pursuing a dual major in Creative Writing and Indigenous Liberal Studies. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Gabriel is a passionate proponent of language revitalization efforts among the United Keetoowah Band, the Cherokee...Read More

*An excerpt from the story, Two Nagí, following the characters’ decision to flee a magic prejudiced desert city called New Sūndūn.              “Storms Out of Sūndūn”            The morning we left for the caravan out of New Sūndūn, there wasn’t a...Read More

            Early in the morning, before the dawn had a chance to light the forest leaves, Tzezympo, the eldest tree standing on the bank of the Small River, had been killed in front of their...Read More

Brianna G Reed is the Diné author of the short essays “Would You?” “Summer in March,” “Questions,” and “Long Road Home.” They have previously appeared in Leonardo and Tribal College Journal. Raised in a military family in Hope Mills, North...Read More

Nelson Alburquenque is a musician and multi-media artist, attending the Institute of American Indian Arts as a Creative Writing major. He is currently working on his mythic hero series, Legends of the nyí, and his futuristic play, Red Skies in...Read More

Desta Shaw lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is currently in her third year of attending IAIA. Whenever she isn’t supplying to her caffeine addiction or taking pictures of her cat she is working and tutoring elementary kids. She...Read More