New Mexico Authors

Professor emeritus at UNM. Author of the essay collection Santa Fe etc. etc. etc.

Santa Fe. Sixth-generation New Mexican. Columnist for the Santa Fe New Mexican. Author/editor of several works on New Mexico life and history, including Legendary Locals of Santa Fe and Saints & Seasons : a guide to New Mexico's most popular saints and New Mexico Death Rituals.

Albuquerque. Author of several books for children including the Henry and Friends series and That's How It Was: Operation Finders Keepers.

(1893-1975) Co-founder of the American Nature Association. Owned Ghost Ranch from 1936 until 1955 when he donated the land to the Presbyterian Church. Author of two books, We Called It Ghost Ranch and The Ghost Ranch Story.

Native of Santa Fe. Writer of articles for national periodicals including the Wall Street Journal and New Mexico Magazine. Author/editor of several works about New Mexico including El Rancho de las Golondrinas : living history in New Mexico's La Ciénega Valley and The Chile Chronicles: tales of a New Mexico harvest. Recipient of the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.

Manzano. Author of the memoir Under The Red Tin Roof.

Born in Taos. Print and radio journalist, environmental planner with the Bureau of Land Management. Author of the poetry collection Apples Rot On The Ground.

Grew up in Santa Fe. Internationally recognized actress and model. Has appeared in numerous films and TV shows. Author of Been There, Done That... now doing MORE!

Albuquerque. M.D., "mystical physician" who works in spiritual wisdom and holistic healthcare. Author of numerous books including The Healing Power of the Sacred Woman and The Heart of the Great Mother: Spiritual Initiation, Creativity, and Rebirth.

(1936-2016) Corrales. Known for the mystery series featuring blind sculptor Mo Bowdre, set around Santa Fe. Co-author, with wife Susanne Page, of several books about life in New Mexico, including the Field guide to Southwest Indian arts and crafts. Co-author, with David Leeming, of several works on mythology, including The Mythology of Native North America.

Las Cruces & Hawaii. Author of books in the "Images of America" series, Holloman Air Force Base and New Mexico Space Trail.

Corrales writer / photographer. Co-author, with husband Jake Page, of Field guide to Southwest Indian arts and crafts and Navajo and Hopi.

Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. Co-author of Writing Today and Argument Today; author of The Resistant Writer: Rhetoric As Immunity, 1850 to the Present.

Albuquerque. Herpetologist with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. Co-author, with William Degenhardt, of Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico.

Degree from UNM. Co-founder and executive director of the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival. Writer/director of the feature film Rejection. Author of the short story collection Albuquerque Blues.

Ph.D in Spanish colonial art history from UNM. Director of the Camino Real Project. Contributor to El Camino Real De Tierra Adentro for the Cultural Resources series.

El Prado. Served on the faculty of the English department at Texas A&M University. Co-author, with M. Jimmie Killingsworth, of Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America and Nuclear New Mexico: A Historical, Natural, and Virtual Tour.

Native New Mexican born in Artesia, longtime resident of Albuquerque. Longtime volunteer as photo archivist for the Albuquerque Museum. Oral historian and educator. Author of several books about area history, including Albuquerque Then & Now collecting articles from her column in The Albuquerque Tribune. Recipient of the Albuquerque History Accolade; co-founder of Historic Albuquerque, Inc.

Margery W. Papich. Albuquerque. Part of the writing trio, with Marion Woolf and Layne Torkelson, that jointly write under the pen name Marion Margery Layne.

Raton, where he served as Mayor 1978-1983 and was a columnist for the local newspaper. Author of Raton: History Mystery and More.

Born in New Mexico, "raised in several southwestern states, primarily New Mexico", now resident of Texas. Photographer and writer of the Southwest. Titles include New Mexico Scenic Drives and New Mexico Impressions and The Hiker's Guide to New Mexico.

Albuquerque. Pen name of author Sarah H. Baker for romance, paranormal romance, and vampire erotica. Also writes mysteries as S.H. Baker and romance as Sarah Storme.

Albuquerque. Bible teacher, speaker, president of Life to the World Ministries, Inc. Owner of Word Productions publishing company. Author of several books including Battlefield Prayers; author of several children's books including Christopher’s Adventures: Chris Visits the Hospital and Christopher’s Adventures: A Prayer on Angel Wings.

Santa Fe. Watercolor painter. Author of short stories, plays, film scripts, and novels including Killing Time: a novel in two acts.

(1875-1941) Anthropologist, sociologist, and ethnographer who studied Native American tribes in Arizona and New Mexico, often involving gender roles. A controversial figure in her lifetime, she sometimes published her feminist writings under a male pseudonym to avoid embarrassing her politician husband. Also controversial was her approach to studying tribal peoples, often paying "informants" and revealing tribal secrets and internal disputes. Despite this, her large body of work is often cited as authoritative, especially Pueblo Indian Religion.

Grandson of ethnographer Elsie Clews Parsons. Founder, with Michael Earney, of the Blue Sky Productions documentary film company in Santa Fe. Photographer with works in many books about New Mexico including The Chile Chronicles : tales of a New Mexico harvest and Dark Beauty : photographs of New Mexico.

Writer of articles for New Mexico magazine.

Sociologist, professor at American University in Washington DC. Author of The Blue Corn Cookbook.

Journalist, editor, radio producer. Freelancer or has worked on staff at numerous publications including High Country News, Santa Fe Reporter, New Mexico in Depth, and Indian Country Today. Author of At The Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate.

Albuquerque. Owner of a restaurant food delivery business, formed the Albuquerque Sols soccer team. Author of That's When It Hit Me: How to Take an Idea from a Cocktail Napkin to Reality.

Santa Fe. Environmental advocate, serving as president of the Santa Fe Watershed Association. Independent scholar specializing in the history of the French-speaking people in New Mexico and the American Southwest. Author of The French in New Mexico: four centuries of exploration, adventure & influence.

Penasco, has lived and worked around the state. Artist, noted for large drawings using a crow-quill pen. Co-author (with Alvaro Cardona-Hine of Miss O'Keeffe. Author of O'Keeffe at Abiquiu.

Roswell, fourth generation rancher. Retired nurse. Author of the memoir The Rock House Ranch / My Lazy-A-Bar Days and The Woman on the Table and Other Stories about her experiences in the field of nursing.

Degree in anthropology from UNM. Author of several works about Southwestern rock art, including Petroglyphs and Pueblo myths of the Rio Grande and On the Trail of Spider Woman : petroglyphs, pictographs, and myths of the Southwest.

(1917-1997) Santa Fe. Graduated New Mexico Highlands University, served as director of communications for the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. Producer and host of New York Cooks, a daily half-hour TV program. Author of numerous books for children on cooking and gardening including Kids Cooking and Cooking Calendar Cookbook for Kids and Kids' Indoor Gardening.

Paula Griffith Paul, also writes as Paula Paul, also writes as Catherine Monroe. Albuquerque. Author of many novels including Crazy Quilt and Dance with Me, Gods about a young Pueblo boy during the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. Author of the Irene Seligman mystery series and the Dr. Alexandra Gladstone mystery series.

(1939-2021) Minnesota, Alaska; owned a ranch near Carrizozo, wife owned a gallery in Santa Fe. Noted author of children's books, some on school reading lists, including Hatchet, Brian's Winter, and Dogsong. Award-winning, including three times as a finalist for a Newbery Award. Some of his books illustrated with paintings by his wife, Ruth Wright Paulsen.

Research associate in the Latin American and Iberian Institute at UNM. Author of The Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya: Cycles and Steps from the Madrid Codex; co-editor of Constructing Power and Place in Mesoamerica: Pre-Hispanic Paintings from Three Regions.

Writer of articles for periodicals including The New Mexico Historical Review and American Antiquity. Research associate for the Museum of New Mexico. Co-written archaeological reports and cultural guidebooks; co-author, with Carleen Lazzell, of Historic Albuquerque: an illustrated history.

Santa Fe. Advertising, editorial, and fine arts photographer with works featured in national magazines. Photographer on Making of a Hand: Growing Up Cowboy in New Mexico, with essays by Max Evans. Photographer on Los Luceros: New Mexico's Morning Star. Author of Santa Fe.

PhD, economist. Regents professor at New Mexico State University. Author of many scholarly articles. Contributor to New Mexico 2050.

Author of Los Alamos Before the Bomb and other stories, an autobiographical account of school days at Los Alamos Ranch School.

U.S. Representative for NM 2nd district since 2011. Author of his memoirs, "Just Fly the Plane, Stupid!".

(1902-1986) Thomas Matthews Pearce. Professor of English at UNM; editor of publications for the New Mexico Folklore Society. Author/editor/co-author of numerous works on New Mexico history, including the first edition of New Mexico Place Names. Author of biographies on New Mexico authors including Oliver La Farge and Alice Corbin Henderson and Mary Austin. Co-author of Southwest Heritage: a literary history with bibliographies.

Albuquerque. Co-author, with Sue Boggio, of two novels set in New Mexico, A Growing Season and Sunlight and Shadow.

Las Cruces. Associate degree from UNM. Author of mysteries set in New Mexico including The Fetish Ruby and A Ruby Just The Same. Poetry in several publications and anthologies; author of poetry collections with photography by her husband William R. Pearson including Faith in Nuevo Mexico, USA.

Northern New Mexico. Author of The Dog Days of Dixon : Incredible stories of love and healing in a rural New Mexico Rescue.

Las Vegas New Mexico. Novelist, playwright, screenwriter. In 2011 named the first Poet Laureate of Las Vegas New Mexico; poetry in several anthologies. Often writes about GLBTQ+ themes. Author of numerous novels including Good Water and The Kiva and the Mosque and The Past and the Present.

Placitas. Former president of UNM, playwright. Author of several novels including one set in Albuquerque, Dead Pawn, and a book on New Mexico history, The New Mexico experience, 1598-1998 : the confluence of cultures .

(1945-2010) In 1986 in Gallup, became the first person of Native American descent to become a Bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. Author of John Courtney Murray, Theologian in Conflict: Roman Catholicism and the American Experience.

New Mexico folklorist. Author of several children's books and collections of folktales including Memories of Cíbola and Villages and Villagers, both in the Stories From New Mexico Villages series.

(1946-2018) Born in Hagerman, raised in Las Vegas New Mexico. Degrees in Spanish language from New Mexico Highlands University, where he later taught. Taught Spanish and Portuguese at several schools including UNM. Active in politics and a strong proponent of civil rights; recipient of several honors including two Human Rights awards from the City of Albuquerque. Author of numerous scholarly papers, short stories and poetry, often involving the history of Hispanics in the Southwest. Contributor to The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico.

Albuquerque. Author of the poetry collections When East Was North and Rabbit Sun, Lotus Moon.

Integrative psychiatrist in Albuquerque; assistant professor and attending child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at UNM. Author of Cleanse Your Body, Reveal Your Soul.

Chimayo. PhD from UNM; professor there, chair of the Chicana/o Studies Lecture Series. Co-author (with Roxanne Swentzell) of The Pueblo Food Experience Cookbook: whole food of our ancestors.

Long involved in the Comedy Club business - "The Godfather of New Mexico Comedy". Local historian. Author of several books including the novels Smiles, Giggles & Laughs and Elsie and Elsa.

Nara Visa, northeastern New Mexico. Native New Mexican, rancher. Retired school teacher. Author of books for young people including Home on the Rocking R Ranch and Kuper Visits the Rocking R Ranch and Farming on the Rocking R Ranch.

Albuquerque. Author of contemporary romance novels including the Montgomery Justice series.

Albuquerque. Master's Degree in Special Education from UNM; retired teacher. Author of several works about Albuquerque history including Albuquerque: A City of Towers and Sacred Valley: Catholic Communities of Albuquerque and Vicinity.

Albuquerque; owner of a contract ethnographic and history research company. M.A. in History from NMSU. Contributor to Essays in twentieth-century New Mexico history.

Teacher, weaver. Co-author, with Carmen Espinosa, of New Mexico Colonial Embroidery.

Las Vegas. Emeritus Professor of History at New Mexico Highlands University. 1984 recipient of the Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico. Author of over forty articles and six books on the American Southwest, including Rio Grande adventure : a history of New Mexico once used as a textbook in schools, and Hispanos : historic leaders in New Mexico and Gateway to Glorieta : a history of Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Fifth-generation Navajo weaver, raised near Two Grey Hills New Mexico. Along with Barbara Teller Ornelas, teaches Navajo weaving workshops throughout the world; the weavers have been featured on the PBS "Craft in America" series and co-authored How To Weave A Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman and Spider Women's Children: Navajo Weavers Today. Collaborates with fiber art centers, museums, and universities to educate the public about Navajo history and the preservation of Navajo weaving traditions.

Albuquerque. UNM professor; director of the Rio Grande Writers Project. Author of picture books for young people, including Don't Forget Winona and I have a sister -- my sister is deaf.

Santa Fe. Poet, writer; National Endowments for the Arts Fellow. Author of Artists of New Mexico Traditions : the National Heritage fellows and a history of his family's ranch, Riding for the brand : 150 years of Cowden Ranching : being an account of the adventures and growth in Texas and New Mexico of the Cowden Land & Cattle Company .

(1924-1987) Moved to Los Alamos in 1961; worked with Los Alamos Labs as an engineering liaison and with geothermal projects. Author of Exploring the Jemez Country and Los Alamos Before the Dawn.

Albuquerque. Historical romance fiction, including The Queen's Companion and Heaven's Daughter and its sequel What Rain Remembers.

(1921-2020) Albuquerque. Career in advertising. Author of nineteen books for children, some of them award-winning, including I'm Emma, I'm a Quint and Cute is a Four-Letter Word and a book about teen suicide, How Could You Do It, Diane?.

(1943-2006) Placitas. UFO researcher; author of Roswell in Perspective and Roswell : inconvenient facts and the will to believe.

Taos. Editor, award-winning prose poetry writer with an MFA degree. Poems in several journals.

Director of the Hydrology Program in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at New Mexico Tech. Co-author of Reining In The Rio Grande : People, Land, and Water.

Santa Fe. Co-author with Bob Phillips of The Pioneer Squire Barker Family.

Maine, New Mexico. Author of contemporary romance and time travel romance novels including the Heart to Heart series.

Albuquerque landscape designer and author of several works on using native plants in landscaping and gardening. Works include Southwestern landscaping with native plants; New Mexico Gardener's Guide; and Plants for natural gardens : southwestern native & adaptive trees, shrubs, wildflowers & grasses.

AKA: Maggie Phillips. Clovis, Roswell. Author of her memoirs Mounds of Memories.

Born in Roswell. Graduate of West Point. Degree in physics; completed his thesis work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Author of several science fiction and fantasy series, including several Rho Agenda series and the Endarian Prophecy series.

Albuquerque area. Filmmaker, screenwriter for several movies including Drive (1998). Author of numerous short stories for national magazines. Author of several novels, including a book in the Friday the 13th franchise, Church of the Divine Psychopath. Author of a book of film reviews, Unsafe on any screen . Co-editor of A Career Guide to Your Job in Hell. Author of the urban fantasy Pete, Drinker of Blood series.

Degrees from Tulane University, PhD from UNM. Curator of Spanish Colonial art at the Denver Art Museum, and a curatorial consultant at El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Has served as curator at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, the Palace of the Governors, and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. Co-author / editor / contributor on numerous works including Transforming Images : New Mexican santos in-between worlds and Conexiones : connections in Spanish colonial art.

Albuquerque. Director of the Center for the Study of Compassion at UNM. Founder and editor of several professional journals. Author of several books and numerous academic articles. Author of The Poetry of Compassion.

From Albuquerque. Poet with works published in numerous literary magazines. Author of several books of poetry including Old Town Bridge and La Jornada.

AKA: Teresa Pijoan de Van Etten, Teresa VanEtten. Espanola-born, raised at the San Juan Pueblo Trading Post, Albuquerque resident. Teacher of creative writing, UNM instructor. Author of numerous works collecting Pueblo stories and Spanish-American folktales, including Ways of Indian Wisdom and White Wolf Woman : Native American transformation myths and La Cuentista : traditional tales in Spanish and English.

(1809-1891) Confederate general, lawyer, jurist. Editor, orator, author and poet. Author of Prose Sketches and Poems, Written in the Western Country based upon his visits to New Mexico 1831-33. Believed to be the first Anglo-American poet to write about New Mexico.

Albuquerque. Grew up in Truth or Consequences and Las Cruces; worked in Washington D.C. as a writer for US Sen. Jeff Bingaman for 26 years. Degree from NMSU, master's degree in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. Writer of articles for area publications. Author of Roadside New Mexico: A Guide to Historic Markers. Co-author, with Arthur Pike, of Detour New Mexico: Historic Destinations and Natural Wonders.

(1779-1813) Zebulon Montgomery Pike. Noted explorer, first into the Louisiana Purchase and later into New Mexico and Texas, a Spanish-controlled area then known as New Spain. Author of Journal of a Tour Through the Interior Parts of New Spain.

(1888-1967) Author who settled in Santa Fe in the 1940s and commenced writing articles about her experiences there. The articles were published in a variety of magazines around the Southwest, as well as in the Christian Science Monitor. Books collecting her articles/stories/vignettes: No High Adobe, Adobe Doorways, Roots in Adobe; Star Over Adobe collects Christmas-themed articles.

Author of a time-travel romance novel, With Love, King Henry VIII.

Long-term resident of Santa Fe; writer for periodicals. Hiker, cyclist, runs in marathons. Author of guidebooks on the Santa Fe area, including Santa Fe on foot : adventures in the city different and The Santa Fe trail by bicycle : a historic adventure.

Sandia Park. Poet; novelist of Victor; the non-fiction book The war aims and strategies of Adolf Hitler; and his autobiography The House of Ashes about his experiences during the Holocaust in Poland.

Albuquerque. Advertising coordinator for KNME. Author of the Western novel Terror on the Border.

(1752-1829) Born in Tome, died in Santa Fe. 19th century delegate to the Spanish Cadiz parliament. Author of The exposition on the Province of New Mexico, 1812.

Las Cruces. Author of several short stories and novelettes, some of them involving the character Chile Charlie.

Longtime educator in Albuquerque. Author of Education in Albuquerque for the Images of America series.

Freelance outdoor writer and columnist for Albuquerque newspapers. Author of Fishing in New Mexico.

Roswell. Retired college history professor; president of the Boots and Saddles Foundation, past president of Fort Stanton Inc. and on the board of directors of the Lincoln County Historical Society and the New Mexico Military History Society. Author of many paper, articles, and books on NM history, including New Mexico and the Civil War.

Author/illustrator of Corazon de mi Angel: a young woman's love story and how she learned to forgive.

(1942-2020) Canoncito, Edge of the Water Clan. PhD from MIT. Served as director of the Navajo Language Program at UNM. Teacher of the Navajo language at many institutions and involved in language revitalization efforts to promote the use of Navajo among Diné youth. Author of numerous articles on Navajo language; co-author of The Athabaskan Languages: Perspectives on a Native American Language Family.

Santa Fe. Fitness instructor, has been a faculty member at Santa Fe Community College. Author of the Wellness Works! series of books and developed the Stress Less Living, Body Confidence, and Read it And Leap email courses. Author of Body Confidence from the Inside Out and Coming Clean: 6 Steps to Making AMENDS with Your Body.

Author of Buckboard Days, relating her husband's life from his birth in Kentucky through his experiences as a buffalo hunter, sheriff and banker, with observations on the Lincoln County War.

Journalist for numerous publications including The New Yorker. Author of Chosen Country: a rebellion in the West about the rise of militia groups.

Santa Fe. Owner / publisher of Ocean Tree Books. Served as President of the New Mexico Book Association. Co-author, with Pamela S. Smith, of Passions in Print: Private Press Artistry in New Mexico. Author of DIscovering Dixie Along the Magnolia Trail : The Day by Day Travel Guide to the Best of the Deep South.

Albuquerque editor/publisher/public relations consultant. Author of the novel The Desert Remains and the "as told to" biography of ex-Governor Bruce King, Cowboy in the Roundhouse : a political life and the "as told to" (press secretary Maurice Trimmer) autobiography Jack M. Campbell : the autobiography of New Mexico's first modern governor.

Albuquerque. Retired Presbyterian minister. Author of several histories and a biography of Albert Schweitzer, and a novel about a historical event involving one of his relatives, Sea of glory : a novel : based on the true WW II story of the four chaplains and the U.S.A.T. Dorchester

AKA: Lesley Kempes. Abiquiu historian of The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West; Valley of Shining Stone, the Story of Abiquiu; and novelist of Canyon of Remembering.

Albuquerque. Jazz flutist. Author of several mystery novels including The Ghost of Mary Prairie and Knee Deep, which is set in New Mexico.

Alamogordo. Author of The Sixth and Seventh Day Man: A Trilogy.

Taos. Author of the memoir Long Time Lost.

Santa Fe native. Worked at Maxwell Museum at UNM. Served as president of the NM Association of Museums; on the board of the Maxwell Museum Association; member of the NM State Historical Society, Historic Albuquerque, and Albuquerque Archaeological Society. Author of Uncovering the History of the Albuquerque Greek Community, 1880-1952.

Albuquerque-raised, degree from UNM, former UNM teacher, now lives in California. Author of short stories and novels, and the autobiography Hoyt Street. Contributor to The stories that shape us : contemporary women write about the West : an anthology.

Photographer. Co-author, with wife Dawn-Marie Lopez, of The Turquoise Trail.

(1952-2016) Born in Albuquerque. Studied at Brigham Young University and Harvard University. Rose through the ranks of the Latter Day Saints. Did missionary work in Russia, and wrote several books including USSR in Third World Conflicts: Soviet Arms and Diplomacy in Local Wars 1945-1980. Author of a biography of Jesus Christ, King of Kings.

Moved to Santa Fe in the 1930s. Well-known photographer, especially of nature and landscapes, with exhibitions in many institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author of many books of photographs including The West and The Grand Canyon. Worked with chaos scientist James Gleick on Nature's Chaos: making a new science.

Las Cruces. Professor of journalism at NMSU. Freelance photographer and journalist featured in numerous publications including New Mexico Magazine, Southwest Art, Sunset, and Natural History. Photographer, with author Linda G. Harris, on Ghost towns Alive : trips to New Mexico's past and Houses in Time: a tour through New Mexico history.

Albuquerque, raised near White Sands, studied at New Mexico Tech. Author of numerous books on a wide range of subjects, including the novel Murder by Starlight : a mystery in New Mexico.

Albuquerque author of the Texas historical novel The Peacekeeper.

Las Cruces. Assistant chemistry professor at NMSU. Hearts of the Missing, first book in the mystery series about Bernalillo-based Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews, won the 2017 Tony Hillerman Prize. Author of the science fiction De-Extinct Zoo mystery series. Co-author of Demystifying the Beats: How to Write a Killer Book.

(1881-1940) AKA: Captain Jack. Clayton New Mexico. Cowman. Historian; writer of articles on personalities, history, and life in northeastern New Mexico. Author of Cattle Trails of the Old West and Lead Steer and other tales.

Las Cruces. Served in the U.S. Navy then the U.S. Forest Service. Author of the Western short story collection Highgrove and several novels including Red Horse Saloon.

Albuquerque. Author of Doing the Right Thing and Achieving All Your Goals at the Same Time.

(1952-2016) Santa Fe. Master's degree in archaeology at UNM. Involved in several excavations in New Mexico including Arroyo Hondo and the National Park Service's researches in Chaco Canyon and Bandelier National Monument. Associated with the School of American Research. Author of numerous scholarly papers; editor of The Peopling of Bandelier: new insights from the archaeology of the Pajarito Plateau.

AKA: Willow Roberts. Santa Fe. Anthropologist, UNM professor. Author of Navajo trading : the end of an era and Stokes Carson : twentieth-century trading on the Navajo Reservation.

(1938-2010) Tom Sharpe Hugh Prather III. Santa Fe. Poet and author. Founder of The Dispensable Church in Santa Fe. Author of a number of philosophical self-help books including Standing on My Head: Life Lessons on Contradiction and Morning Notes: 365 Meditations to Wake You Up and the bestselling Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person.

Albuquerque. Author of the children's books The Keepsake Chest and Penny in the Road.

Popular, prolific author of poetry for children who met his soon-to-be-wife when he came to Albuquerque on a book tour. Recipient of many awards, including the inaugural Child's Poet Laureate award from the Poetry Foundation. Many popular titles including Awful Ogre's Awful Day and A Pizza the Size of the Sun and Pizza, pigs, and poetry : how to write a poem.

Divides his time between New Mexico and Maine. Writer of articles for national periodicals. Author, with Lincoln Child, of many popular suspense thrillers incorporating archeology, science, science fiction, and occult themes; two of these books, Mount Dragon and Tyrannosaur Canyon, are set in New Mexico. Author of a book about Coronado's expedition, Cities of gold : a journey across the American Southwest. New York Times bestselling author.

Albuquerque. Author of California Mission Cookery; co-author (with David G. Jackson) of The Hatch Chile Cookbook : hot & spicy recipes featuring the world's finest chile peppers.

Mesilla Park; grew up on ranches near Cimarron and Springer. Author of A Goat Tail and Other Stories Heard Around the Supper Table, a collection of her humor columns from several New Mexico and Arizona newspapers.

Served as State Geologist, and Director of the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources at New Mexico Tech. Numerous professional publications about New Mexico's geology and water resources; editor / co-editor of numerous works including Albuquerque: a guide to its geology and culture.

Santa Fe. Author of Uncle Sam's Most Reluctant G.I.: When dad was drafted, the whole family went to war and her memoirs Rancho de Valentino about her family's experiences in moving to New Mexico.

(1913-2009) Las Vegas New Mexico. Attended New Mexico Military Institute, taught high school history in Roswell. Longtime librarian, serving as administrator of the St. Louis Public Library before moving back to New Mexico. Author of several works of New Mexico history including The Santa Fe’s Rincon Lived and Died on this Line and Mesilla Valley pioneers, 1823-1912.

Albuquerque attorney; law degree from UNM; instructor in writing at UNM School of Law. Articles, poetry, and photographs published in numerous periodicals. Author of Huerfano : a memoir of life in the counterculture and Across the great divide : a photo chronicle of the counterculture.

Vincent Barrett Price. Journalist, teacher, novelist, poet, author of several books about Albuquerque's architecture and ambiance including Albuquerque : a city at the end of the world and The University of New Mexico. Brother to author Victoria Price. Son of actor Vincent Price.

Santa Fe designer and art historian. Writer of articles for many national periodicals. Sister to author V.B. Price. Author of Vincent Price : a daughter's biography.

Placitas. Advertising art director and graphic designer. Author of non-fiction books on computer design and stereograms. Author of The Chimes of Westminster and other short stories.

Las Cruces; split residences between Louisiana and New Mexico. Teacher of creative writing at several schools including New Mexico State University. Author of picture books for children, numerous novels, and more than a thousand short stories. Author of Within Sound of the Bugle about life in New Mexico's military forts, and Billy the Kid: the Good Side of a Bad Man. Author of Shalam: Utopia on the Rio Grande.

(1840-1922) LeBaron Bradford Prince. Justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court 1878-1882. Spoke at the celebration commemorating the arrival of the AT&SF Railroad into Albuquerque 1880. Governor of New Mexico Territory 1889-1893. Member of New Mexico Territorial Council in 1909; delegate to the New Mexico State Constitutional Convention of 1911. Author of numerous works involving New Mexico including Historical Sketches of New Mexico (1883), A Concise History of New Mexico (1912), The Student's History of New Mexico (1913), and Spanish Mission Churches of New Mexico (1915).

Placitas teacher and author of the biography The road goes this way and that way

Santa Fe. Author of several works including All My Relations: Mitakuye oyasin : the Sioux, the Pueblo & the spirit world and Spiritual Encounters with Red Cloud : Makhpfya-Luta True Stories : A Passage into Another Dimension.

Taos. Painter, former high school English teacher. Author of the children's books SI' Si' the Circus Cat and Si' Si' and the Enchanted Circle.

Kathryn Ptacek; also writes as Les Simons, Kathryn Atwood, Anne Mayfield, Kathleen Maxwell, Kathryn Grant. Albuquerque-raised UNM graduate. Married to writer Charles Grant. Author of many historical fantasy, dark fantasy, and horror novels, some of them set in New Mexico.

Author of Hell Bent for Santa Fe, a fictionalized account of the Texas Santa Fe Expedition, and The Lost Adams Diggings : myth, mystery and madness.

AKA: D.M. Purnell. Central New Mexico. Writes Young Adult / New Adult, Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction, Dystopian Fantasy, and Poetry. Works in several anthologies including volumes of A Book To Last The Year; author of the fantasy novel Simone and the Serpent's Sword.

Albuquerque resident, now in Tucson. Author of "Horror with Heart" paranormal thrillers, including Struck which received a New Mexico Book Award in 2009.

(1900-1945) Ernest Taylor Pyle. Journalist, best known for his combat coverage of WWII, during which service he was killed on an island near Okinawa. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1944; he was very popular for his depictions of the average American soldier. Before the war, he gained a following for his down-home views on the world, including articles that spoke glowingly of the Southwest in general and Albuquerque in particular. The City of Albuquerque, as the result of a campaign led by Erna Fergusson, acquired his home which was made into the first ABCLS branch library in 1948. The Ernie Pyle Middle School in Albuquerque is named in his honor. Among his popular titles: Home Country and Here is Your War: story of G.I. Joe.

Degrees from Trinity University and Texas Tech University. Ph.D. in American Studies from UNM. Co-editor of The Multicultural Southwest: a reader.