The Stories I Haven't Been Told – Jamie Figueroa

Jamie Figueroa is Boricua (Afro-Taíno) by way of Ohio and a long-time resident of northern New Mexico. She is the author of the novel Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer. Her awards include the Truman Capote Scholarship and the Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Arts Award. Her writing has appeared in Epoch, Yellow Medicine Review, Sin Fronteras, McSweeney’s, and American Short Fiction. She is an Assistant Professor at The Institute of American Indian Arts. Cienna Smith is a Black and Latina illustrator and visual development artist based in New York City. Her artistic practice focuses on creating colorful work that evokes a sense of energy and life and that often delves into surrealism, her Caribbean upbringing, and painting women who look like they could be family. She is the art director for Black Womxn Exhale. Jamie Figueroa brings her pen to the blank pages of her family’s history, navigating generational trauma and lost ancestral stories in order to reveal and reclaim her cultural and famili

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