Suni Sonqo Vizcarra Wood (Quechua Nation, Peru) is an artist born in Taos, NM (1996) and raised in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Peru. He studied sculpture at the Art University Bellas Artes Diego Quispe Tito in Cusco, Peru...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

Calista Middaugh is from the Gila River Community located in Phoenix Arizona. Currently in her second year at IAIA, she is pursuing a B.A. in Museum Studies. Inspiration for her degree is derived from early morning museum trips with her...Read More

My name is Debon Redd Victor, I prefer Redd but at the same it doesn’t matter. I started writing in high school in my junior year. I remember the books I read back then that made me want to write....Read More

Shantel Chee is in her third year at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is majoring in studio arts and creative writing with an emphasis on poetry. Shantel's writing and art tell stories about the land and community she...Read More

Rayne Kingfisher is the sound you make after having sex. He the gleam a diamond’s shine wishes it could be. The comet that wiped out the dinosaurs is an understatement in comparison to the impact that is Rayne Kingfisher. Rayne...Read More

Nelson Alburquenque is a multi-media artist and songwriter, working towards earning a bachelor fine arts degree in creative writing. By attending the Institute of American Indian Arts, Alburquenque hopes to bring his illustrative and musical story series, Legends of the...Read More

Erik Sanchez (Shoalwater Bay / Chinook / Apache) is a Santa Fe based filmmaker creating Indigenous narratives using comedy and magical realism to comment on contemporary society and the landscape around himself. Sanchez uses satire to correct Native American archetypes...Read More