New Mexico Authors

Santa Fe. Serves on the board of New Mexico Literary Arts. Poetry in many journals and anthologies. Author of several collections including Ink on Snow and Ransomed Voices.

Santa Fe author of Pulling no ponchos : an irreverent history of Santa Fe and Old Santa Fe : a brief review of history, 1536-1912 and Ask About Santa Fe: 464 essential questions and their answers about this city and the State of New Mexico.

Corrales. Investigator, cryptozoologist, editor at Skeptical Inquirer magazine. Co-author of Hoaxes, Myths & Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking; author of Media Mythmakers: How Journalists, Activists & Advertisers Mislead Us and Tracking the Chupacabra : the vampire beast in fact, fiction, and folklore and Mysterious New Mexico: miracles, magic, and monsters in the Land of Enchantment.

Los Alamos. Avid hiker; volunteer at Valles Caldera National Preserve. Author of Hiking Trails in Valles Caldera National Preserve.

Founding editor of the Santa Fe Literary Review, author of Movies in the Mind: How to Build a Short Story.

Community and enterprise developer. Founder of the community-based economic development agency Valle Encantado; cofounder of the small farm cooperative Agri-Cultura Network. Program officer of the McCune Foundation of New Mexico. Contributor to New Mexico 2050.

AKA: Beautiful Painted Arrow, Tslew-teh-koyeh. Bernalillo, from Picuris Pueblo. Lecturer, philosopher, artist whose paintings are in galleries around the country. Internationally recognized shaman whose "mystery school" workshops, some held in northern New Mexico, draw people from around the world. Founder of a global network of Sound Peace Chambers. Author of Being and Vibration about his religious upbringing at Picuris; and Beautiful Painted Arrow: Stories and Teachings & Ceremonies of the Living Spirit.

AKA: Juan B. Rael. (1900-1993) Born in Arroyo Hondo. Linguist and ethnographer of Northern New Mexico. Was a professor at Stanford University; donated his ethnographic materials to the Library of Congress. Best known for Cuentos : tales from the Hispanic Southwest.

Native New Mexican. Degrees from UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan. Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque; former State Historian. Contributor to Converging Streams : art of the Hispanic and Native American Southwest.

Judith Asher Rafaela. Santa Fe. Publisher at Sherman Asher Publishing. Author of several poetry collections including Practice of Peace and Poems Along the Path. Co-editor of Written with a Spoon: a poet's cookbook.

(1944-2022) Born in Santa Fe, member of Taos Pueblo tribe. Photographer, author. Degrees from Brigham Young University, educator. Author of numerous works including Proud Moments : Generation to Generation and Their Dreams, Our Destiny; co-author of Beyond the Adobe Wall: A tribute to Taos Pueblo in art and prose.

El Prado, near Taos. Poet, native plant ecologist, educator, and restoration specialist. Degrees in English. Teacher at several universities, including as adjunct faculty at the University of New Mexico’s Taos Branch.

Albuquerque. Founder and director of the University of Wisconsin Integrative Medicine program. Professor and chair of the Department of Family & Community Medicine at UNM. Author of several works including The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening.

Northwest New Mexico. Author of the mystery The Cactus Plot which won a 2020 New Mexico Book Award.

Professor emerita of anthropology at UNM. Author of Vectors of Death: The Archaeology of European Contact. Co-editor of several works including (with Kari L. Schleher) The Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos: Change and Stability.

Southwest New Mexico. Mediator and educator. Author of a column on interpersonal relationships for the Silver City Independent. Author of the novel Sung Home, a post-apocalyptic tale set in New Mexico's near future.

Raised in Albuquerque area. Economist, with degrees from University of Chicago and New York University. Worked as editor on Time magazine. Involved with a number of organizations including the Santa Fe Institute and the Aspen Institute. Author of books on global economics including The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks; author of a book on aerobatic flying, No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport .

Lives in Puerto Rico, New York, and New Mexico. Retired general surgeon. Women's rights activist. Contributor to poetry collections; poetry and photos featured in numerous publications including Malpais Review. Presented a talk on woman's suffrage in New Mexico at the Special Collections Library.

(1936- ) Sometime Albuquerque resident. Photographer, poet, translator, feminist, social activist. First recipient of PEN New Mexico’s Dorothy Doyle Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing and Human Rights Activism. Photographs in the Capitol Arts Foundation permanent collection. Author of many books including My town : a memoir of Albuquerque, New Mexico in poems, prose and photographs and Albuquerque : coming back to the U.S.A..

Albuquerque columnist / essayist / humorist. Wrote a column for the Albuquerque Journal. Has syndicated column examining small-town life, "Home Country", appears in newspapers around the country. Author of a variety of works, including Ol' Slim's views from the porch : a plethora of punditry, a wonderment of wisdom and Sweetgrass Mornings, which won a 2011 New Mexico Book Award.

Southwest New Mexico. Short works in several anthologies. Author of A Very Short Writing Manual For The Utterly Clueless By Someone Who Has Been There. Author of Young Adult novels including the Federation Diplomat space opera series and several children's books including Call Me Tony.

Master's degree in community regional planning. Has worked with UNM’s Master of Community Regional Planning program, the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, the New Mexico Foundation, and the New Mexico Public Health Association. Author of Environmental Justice in New Mexico: counting coup.

Santa Fe; professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. As a child was chosen as a poster child for the March of Dimes; her book Poster Child: a memoir addresses that experience. Her other book, The still point of the turning world, addressed her son's affliction with Tye-Sachs disease.

Taos. Writer, poet. Author of the memoir Love on the Brink of History dealing with ordination to the priesthood in the Gnostic Tradition.

Santa Fe. Longtime tutor, runs a tutoring service in Santa Fe. Author of book of math skills for children used by schools nationwide, Algebra Survival Guide: A Conversational Handbook for the Thoroughly Befuddled, and the related workbook.

Santa Fe. Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus, Union Theological Seminary New York. Organizer of Ghost Ranch’s decade project on Earth-honoring Faith. Author of Earth Community, Earth Ethics.

Graduate of NMSU. Dual careers with the BLM and the U.S. Army. Served around New Mexico as commander of Air Defense Artillery. Author of New Mexico Frontier Military Place Names.

Ronald P. Ratkevich. Alamogordo, Environmentalist for the City of Alamogordo. Has participated in numerous Museum of Natural History fossil hunting expeditions in New Mexico and other western states. Author / co-author of numerous books on fossils and fossil hunting including Field Guide to New Mexico Fossils and Ice Age Animals of the Rio Grande Valley and Meet New Mexico's State Dinosaur.

Silver City. Volunteer firefighter. Writes science fiction and scientific poetry. Author of Rhyme and Reason: Poetry Inspired by Science. Author of several short story collections and a novel; author of the Colony on Mars series and the Colonizing Saturn's Moon series.

"Priestess for the Water, a ceremonialist, shamanic guide, and teacher." Author of several novels and the book How to Create Sacred Water: a guide to rituals and practices.

Longtime staff writer for the Albuquerque Journal. Author of a mystery about investigative reporter Digger Doyle, set in "Las Vistas New Mexico", The Power of Rain.

Placitas. Poetry editor of bosque journal, previously editor of Prairie Schooner. Author of several works including Divine Honors and All Odd and Splendid and What Becomes You.

(1852-1927) Born in Las Cruces, died in Santa Fe. Lawyer. Served in the territorial legislature and as speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives. Early Latinx historian who wrote on New Mexico history from the perspective of Spanish heritage including Historia ilustrada de Nuevo México and the school textbook Popular Elementary History of New Mexico (1914).

Master's from Yale. Teacher with Albuquerque public schools including serving as principal of Albuquerque High for 32 years. Author/artist for a cartoon strip and articles for The Albuquerque Tribune. Author of Out of New Mexico's Past.

Regents' Professor of Spanish at UNM; teacher of Chicana/o literature and Latin American literature. Author of many essays in anthologies and journals. Contributor to Expressing New Mexico : Nuevomexicano creativity, ritual, and memory.

Albuquerque, grew up on the Navajo nation. Author of Viktor Frankl : a life worth living and her memoir To Drink from the Silver Cup.

(1909-1990) Santa Fe. Served as curator at the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art in Santa Fe. Author of The Misadventures of Coyote: Indian Tales from the Pueblos and numerous short works.

Native of Santa Fe. Served as an archaeologist for the National Park Service for many years. Contributor to All trails lead to Santa Fe : an anthology commemorating the 400th anniversary of the founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610.

Corrales. Journalist, freelance writer. Longtime staff writer for the Albuquerque Tribune, focusing on books and author interviews and writing the "Biblo File" column. Co-editor of Max Evans & a Few Friends: the 90th birthday book

Santa Fe. Newspaper writer and editor for several periodicals including the Albuquerque Journal and The Santa Fe New Mexican. Freelance writer for numerous publications including The New York Times.

Santa Fe. Painter and illustrator. Author of The Wind Blows and the Flowers Dance: An Artist Shares Her Life from Loss to Renewal.

AKA: Agnesa Reeve-Kidney, Agnesa Lufkin Reeve. Santa Fe. Served on board of directors of the Old Santa Fe Foundation and the Historical Society of New Mexico. Author / co-author of several works including From Hacienda to Bungalow and The Small Adobe House; editor on My Dear Mollie: love letters of a Texas sheep rancher.

(1899-1967) Frank Driver Reeve. Degree from UNM, on UNM faculty from 1927-1964. Honorary fellow of the School of American Research and fellow of the New Mexico Historical Society. Editor of the New Mexico Historical Review for 12 years. Author/co-author/editor of several works on New Mexico history including History of New Mexico and New Mexico, Yesterday and Today and (with Alice A. Cleaveland) New Mexico: Land of Many Cultures.

Grew up in Socorro. Author / co-author of several works on railroad history including Ghost Train! American Railroad Ghost Legends. Author of the poetry collections Old North and Passage and Socorro.

Santa Fe; Chair of Creative Writing and Literature at Santa Fe University of Art & Design. Writer of articles for a variety of periodicals. Founder and publishing editor of Stalking Horse Press. Author of the novel Mistah Kurtz!, a prequel to Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Santa Fe. President of a management and organizational consulting firm. Nationally recognized author, speaker, seminar leader, and management consultant. Author of professional management books including Effective Operations and Controls for the Small Privately Held Business and fiction including Brother Knot.

Member of the Corrales Writing Group. Featured in the Corrales Writing Group Anthologies.

(1926-2020) Born in Santa Fe, lived in Albuquerque. Graduate of UNM. Longtime administrative assistant at Sandia National Laboratory. Author of a children's book, Sammy – the Real Cool Dog.

Silver City. Retired UNM professor; has worked for the U.S. Forest Service. Poet, short story author. Author of numerous articles and works about New Mexico history including Kit Carson : the life of an American border man and Bell Ranch : cattle ranching in the southwest, 1824-1947 and a biography of Erna Fergusson.

AKA: "Don Agapito". (1892-1987) Historian; visiting professor at many universities including UNM. Editor with The Quivira Society. Translator of many documents from the Spanish Colonial period in New Mexico; author / co-author / co-editor (often with George P. Hammond) of many works including Don Juan de Oñate, colonizer of New Mexico, 1595-1628 and Narratives of the Coronado expedition, 1540-1542.

Albuquerque. Founder and CEO of Joy Junction homeless shelter in Albuquerque. Author of We All Need a Little Help and Homeless culture and the media : How the media educate audiences in their protrayal of America's homeless culture.

PhD, economist. Has served as city economist for the City of Albuquerque and chief economist for the New Mexico Department of Finance. Past director of the UNM Bureau of Business and Economic Research. Contributor to New Mexico 2050.

Architectural historian, Master's in History from UNM. Author of Wings of War : an illustrated history of Kirtland Air Force Base, 1941-1960.

Michael E. Reynolds. Northern New Mexico. Architect who developed the "Earthship Biotecture" school of home construction, using repurposed/recycled materials and stressing resource efficiency. Author of the Earthship series of how-to books, and several other books on eco-friendly construction practices. Subject of the documentary film Garbage Warrior.

Las Cruces. Retired curator of the University Museum at NMSU. Contributor to Out of the shadows : the women of southern New Mexico.

Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. Co-author, with his wife Barbe Awalt, of numerous books about Hispanic folk arts and artists, especially santeros. Has lectured widely on New Mexican devotional art; has served as traditional arts judge at the New Mexico State Fair. Works include Charlie Carrillo : tradition & soul = tradición y alma and Our saints among us = Nuestros santos entre nosotros : 400 years of New Mexican devotional art and Contemporary Hispanic Market : 25 years.

Assistant professor of Anthropology at UNM. Co-author of Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions.

AKA: Gene Rhodes. (1869-1934) Moved to the area of Alamogordo in 1881 at the age of 12, became an accomplished horseman and stonemason. Friend to rancher Oliver Lee. Wrote many novels and stories set in southern New Mexico. Nicknamed "the Cowboy Chronicler", his stories in national publications including The Saturday Evening Post were influential in creating popular images of cowboy and ranch life. Lived most of his life in New Mexico, in various locations around the state. Credited with applying the phrase "The Land of Enchantment" as referring to New Mexico, using the term in a 1911 work and again in 1914. The Alamogordo Public Library has a room named in his honor. Buried at the top of Rhodes Pass, named for him after his description of it in the novel Stepsons of Light (1921). Biography, by his wife May Davison Rhodes: The Hired Man on Horseback (1938).

(1932-2018) Santa Fe. Poet, writer, teacher, and editor; member of the Live Poets Society. Attended UNM. Worked for the Commission on Higher Education. Served as Director of the NM Natural History Museum; served as Director of the NM Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Author of six collections of his poetry including Lion Dreaming.

Pen name of Santa Fe author Claudia Jessup. Under this name, author of the Power and Pleasure series.

Raised in New Mexico. Freelance writer for magazines. Author of the Young Adult novel Accidental and the Young Adult novel When We Were Strangers about a teenager growing up in Santa Fe.

Grew up in Stanley and Zuni, now of Albuquerque. Degree from UNM. Photographer, co-author (with Robert Strein and John Vaughan) of Santa Fe: the Chief Way.

AKA: Jon Richards. Santa Fe. Journalist, film critic, actor, and editorial / political cartoonist. Screenwriter, translator for film subtitles. Film review columns online and in the Santa Fe New Mexican. Author of the novel Santa Fe and the Whitmarsh Chronicles, a trilogy set against the background of the American labor movement. Author of the historical fiction Cherokee Bill. Illustrator of several books by Alan Arkin.

Rio Rancho. Author of Black Pioneers of New Mexico: A Documentary and Pictorial History; co-author (with Euola Cox) of Noteworthy Black Women of New Mexico : Past and Present.

Albuquerque. Writes under the pen name Charli.

Born in Las Cruces, raised in Albuquerque. Author of La Estrella de La Navidad ("The Christmas Star"), an all-ages story about a family celebrating Christmas in New Mexico, with recipes.

(1890-1968) Novelist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Lived in Albuquerque 1928-33, subsequently rotating between there, Pennsylvania, and Florida. Wrote short stories on the Southwest, some of them collected in Early Americana, and the novel The Sea of Grass about conflicts between New Mexico ranchers and farmers; a film based upon the book was filmed in New Mexico on the Plains of San Agustin near Magdalena.

Longtime writer for the Farmington Daily News with a news column, "My Window on the Mesa". Author of several poetry collections including the titular column and The Four Corners Country : a guide book in verse.

Has taught at Dona Ana Community College in Las Cruces. Editor, screenwriter. Author of several books in the "Vampire for Hire" series.

AKA: Rollie Lynn Riggs. (1899-1954) Santa Fe. Poet, playwright, screenwriter. Came to Santa Fe in 1923 pursuing a tuberculosis cure; spent several years in New Mexico after that then divided his time between Santa Fe and various eastern cities as well as Los Angeles, often teaching in colleges. Active in the Santa Fe and Taos artist's colonies. His work Green Grow The Lilacs was adapted into the musical Oklahoma! His home in Santa Fe is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Las Vegas New Mexico. Research Associate the Laboratory of Anthropology of the Museum of New Mexico, adjunct professor at NM Highlands University. Author / co-author / editor of numerous works about NM history, including Rio del Norte : people of the Upper Rio Grande from earliest times to the Pueblo revolt and The Kachina and the Cross : Indians and Spaniards in the early Southwest.

Las Vegas; master's degree in History from New Mexico Highlands University. Author of Outlaws & Outcasts: The Lost Cemetery of Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Santa Fe. Architect, with a specialty in the adaptive reuse of historic structures. Author of a study of railroad depots commissioned by the New Mexico Dept. of Highway and Transportation. Author of The train stops here : New Mexico's railway legacy; editor of New Mexico's historic places : the guide to National and State Register sites.

(1830-1904) William Gillet Ritch. Served as Secretary of New Mexico Territory 1873-1885, with the added responsibilities of being Acting Territorial Governor as of 1875. Collected historical documents, especially from the Palace of the Governors, in order to preserve them. Author of several works on New Mexico including Illustrated New Mexico and Aztlan: The History, Resources, and Attractions of New Mexico.

Worked in advertising and printing, including the Stagecoach Press in Santa Fe. Author of several works about NM history including A Guide Book to Highway 66 and The Santa Fe Trail: a historical bibliography and Maverick Tales of the Southwest.

AKA: Buddy Ritter. Fifth generation native of Mesilla and Las Cruces. Writer, editor, teacher at NMSU. Graduate of New Mexico State University; graduate degree from NMSU, was the first Certified Hotel Administrator in the state of New Mexico. Has owned four hotels, eleven restaurants and two breweries in New Mexico and Arizona. Co-author, with Craig Holden, of Mesilla Comes Alive: A History of Mesilla and its Valley.

Gila area. Aerospace industry, producer of wildlife documentaries, literary agent. Author of the Mbuno & Pero Safari Thriller series and A Tribal Rumble: a safari campfire tale. Author of The Tag science fiction series.

Moriarty. Career 911 operator, supervisor, and director. Author of A Rise to Grace: Morgan's Story about the effects of addiction on her family.

Research scholar, Center for Regional Studies and professor of community and regional planning at UNM. Author of Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest and La Sociedad: Guardians of Hispanic Culture Along the Rio Grande and The Zanjeras of Ilocos: Cooperative Irrigation Societies of the Philippines.

Born and raised in southern New Mexico, now resident of Colorado. Master’s degree with concentrations in Psychology and Political Science. Volunteer with organizations including the Otero County Community Health Council, the Southern New Mexico Wellness Alliance and the Friends of the Alamogordo Public Library; co-founder of the Alamogordo Speakers Series. Author of the novels Wallflower Blooming and Best Laid Plans & Other Disasters.

Professor of English aT Eastern New Mexico University. Author of The Topographical Imagination of Jameson, Baudrillard, and Foucault and the novel Cartilage and Skin.

Santa Fe. JD degree from UNM School of Law, specializing in Federal Indian Law. Writer of speculative fiction. Winner of numerous awards including the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Noted for the Sixth World series, a work of indigenous futurism involving Navajo monster-slayer Maggie Hoskie, and the Between Earth and Sky series.

Santa Fe. Collaborator with Santa Fe-based photographer Siegfried Halus. Professor emerita of mass communication at Westfield State University; former Life magazine researcher / reporter. Author of numerous books of poetry including Off Season.

(1892-1989) Albuquerque. Composer, ethnomusicologist, arts administrator, and attorney. Helped establish the University of New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. Professor at UNM and credited with growing the Music Department there. Noted collector/recorder of New Mexico folk music, which collection now comprises the John Donald Robb Archives at UNM. Author of several collections of folks songs including Cancionero: songs of laughter and faith in New Mexico and Hispanic Folk Songs of New Mexico.

(1897-1966) Frank Harold Hanna Roberts. Archaeologist schooled in Las Vegas; went on to work at Pueblo Bonito and with the Bureau of American Ethnology, where he served as its last Director. Did extensive work at Chaco Canyon and on the Folsom culture. Honorary degree from UNM. Author of numerous papers on Southwestern archaeology, and the book History and Civics of New Mexico.

Estancia. Science fiction / fantasy / historical fiction. Best known for the SPQR series set in ancient Rome.

See McKee-Roberts, Kathryn

Served as Curator of Collections at the Fine Arts Museum in Santa Fe. Co-author / -editor, with Sarah Nestor, of Artists of the Canyons and Caminos: Santa Fe, the early years, a collection of interviews with Santa Fe artists.

(1930-2011) Santa Fe. Songwriter, country singer, storyteller, poet. Author of several collections of poetry including The Goofy Goddess on the Wall and A Horse Called Desperation.

Santa Fe. MFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies including The Santa Fe Literary Review. Author of poetry collections including Migrant Moon and the short story collection Sweetgrass Burning: Stories from the Rez. Featured in Santa Fe Noir.

Taos. Degree in political science; was academic law review at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Served as Circuit Court judge. Author of several novels including mysteries featuring Honolulu criminal defense attorney Pancho McMartin and the golf suspense novel Unplayable Lie.

Albuquerque. Minister Provincial of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Province of Franciscan friars. Author of Franciscan Friars: Coast to Coast for the Images of America series.

Author of Third Eye, a metaphysical novel about an otherworldly stranger arriving in a small village in northern New Mexico.

Resident of NM since 1975, degree from UNM. Journalist; wrote for the Gallup Independent and other periodicals, television, and editor of the UNM Alumni magazine Quantum. Numerous awards, including from the New Mexico Press Women; served as Honorary Commander at Kirtland Air Force Base in 2003. Author of several books including El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains : a hiking guide and history and I Fought a Good Fight : a history of the Lipan Apaches and James Silas Calhoun : First Governor of New Mexico Territory and First Indian Agent.

Albuquerque; poet who works with the Poetry Playhouse. Editor on numerous poetry anthologies. Author of numerous poetry collections including Topicalities and a book of philosophy, Joe Rides Again, which won a New Mexico / Arizona Book Award.

Professor in epidemiology and high-risk obstetrics. Poetry in numerous publications including Santa Fe Literary Review. Author of the poetry collections Mourning Dove and On the Brink of the Sea.

Santa Fe. Teacher at Santa Fe Community College. Editor of the anthology, Women Becoming Poems, and author of the chapbook, Surrender To Storm. Author of the poetry collection Sting and Nest.

Deming. Author of Antoine's Legacy: Antoine Barada and My Search for the Truth and While the Wind Blew, a collection of historical stories about Luna County.

Taos. Award-winning painter and enjarradora (plasterer and finisher of adobe buildings). Author of Jamal and the Angel : an Aunt Martha story and a memoir with recipes, Coyota in the Kitchen : a Memoir of Old and New Mexico.

Teacher at Brown University; Masters degrees from Brown University and UNM. Numerous writing awards. Contributor to The Pueblo Food Experience Cookbook: whole food of our ancestors.

Professor of Anthropology at UNM. Author of The Matachines Dance : ritual symbolism and interethnic relations in the upper Río Grande Valley and Acequia : water-sharing, sanctity, and place.

Born and raised in Gallup, now of Montana. Editor in chief of Western Art & Architecture and the managing editor of Big Sky Journal. Author of Haunted New Mexico: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Land of Enchantment.

Divides her time between New York City and Santa Fe. President of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. Historian / photographer. Author of Landscape Design : a cultural and architectural history and Learning Las Vegas : portrait of a northern New Mexican place.

(1931-2004) Albuquerque. Communication scholar, sociologist, writer, and teacher; originated the term early adopter and the Diffusion of Innovations theory. Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UNM, helping to establish the doctoral program in Communication there. Co-author, with Nancy R. Bartlit, of Silent Voices of World War II : when sons of the Land of Enchantment met sons of the Land of the Rising Sun.

Albuquerque. Director of the Women's Health Urogynecology Center at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Co-author, with Shelley Kleinschmidt and Janet Yagoda Shagam, of Regaining Bladder Control: What Every Woman Needs to Know.

AKA: Aulton E. Roland, Bob Roland. Albuquerque / Grants. Engineer, historian. Author of The Ballad of Placida Romero: A Woman's Captivity and Redemption.

Author of Descent into Madness: An Inmate's Experience of the New Mexico State Prison Riot.

PhD in visual anthropology. Art historian and Curator of Exhibits at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at UNM. Author of Hardship, Greed, and Sorrow: An Officer’s Photo Album of 1866 New Mexico Territory.

(1961- ) Born in Dixon. Lecturer in Creative Writing and Chicano Studies at UNM, poet. Graduate of Menaul School in Albuquerque; degrees in architecture from UNM. Inaugural New Mexico Poet Laureate as of 2020. Noted for his "nuevomexicano" poetry reflecting life in northern New Mexico. Author of several works including A Poetry of Remembrance : new and rejected works and In the Gathering of Silence : poems.

Born in Las Vegas New Mexico, attended NM Highlands University. Volunteer with the National Hispanic Cultural Center and the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Author of the novel Mestizo the Old Man.

Arrived in New Mexico in 1929 aboard a Fred Harvey bus. Schoolteacher in the Espanola area; worked as a technician at Los Alamos Labs. Wrote a column for the Rio Grande Sun; author of a collection of those essays, Housewife by the Rio Grande. Named a Santa Fe Living Treasure.

Born in Santa Fe; resident of Nambé. Historian, columnist for the Santa Fe New Mexican. Recipient of the 'Order of Isabella the Catholic' from Spain, for preserving the heritage and traditions of Hispanic New Mexico. Author of Nambé, Year One; co-author (with David Larkin) of Adobe : building and living with earth. Contributor to All Trails Lead to Santa Fe : an anthology commemorating the 400th anniversary of the founding of Santa Fe.

Pen name of Edwina P. Romero. Degrees from New Mexico Highlands University and UNM; teaches at NMHU. Affiliated with the City of Las Vegas Museum and Rough Rider Memorial Collection. Author of essays, articles, and short stories. Author of Cowboy Reunions of Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Albuquerque author of Flora's Kitchen : recipes from a New Mexico family, a mixture of traditional New Mexico recipes and a history of her family, original Spanish settlers.

Albuquerque. Degree in English Language and Literature/Letters from UNM. Writer of Adult Romance and Young Adult Urban Fantasy. Author of the Young Adult paranormal romance Shadow Spell series.

Born and raised in Albuquerque, degrees from UNM and NMSU. Author of the novels The Acheron Deception and The Angel of Inisfree.

Santa Fe. Artist, actor. Author of two collections of poetry, The Pearl Upon the Crown and Poetraits.

Albuquerque. Teacher of social studies and English. Author of numerous works for young people including Blue Birds and A Race Around the World: The True Story of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland (She Made History) and Miraculous

Formerly worked in the television news industry in New Mexico. Author of several novels, including Hemlock Lake and a mystery series set in Albuquerque about television news director Casey Brandt.

AKA: E.P. Rose. Galisteo. Sculptor, poet. Author of Poet Under a Soldier's Hat and some volumes of children's poetry.

Rio Rancho. Owner of Desert Wordsmith Productions. Articles in a variety of local and national periodicals including OMNI. Author of The Joy Beyond Craving: A Buddhist Perspective on Addiction and Recovery and Over the Gender Rainbow.

Santa Fe. Storyteller; author of the "Tibetan Tales" books including Tibetan Tales for Little Buddhas.

Gallup. Co-author, with Peter Tempest, of The Gallup Guide : Outdoor Routes in Red Rock Country. Author of A Place of Thin Veil: Life and Death in Gallup, New Mexico. Featured as a character in a Tony Hillerman novel.

AKA: M. Glenda Rosen. Albuquerque. Marketing and public relations. Author of the Dying To Be Beautiful mystery series and the Senior Sleuth series. Author of The Woman's Business Therapist and My Memoir Workbook. Co-author, with Jory Rosen, of The Gourmet Gangster.

(1944-2003) Author of The Atomic City : a firsthand account by a son of Los Alamos.

Formerly served with the New Mexico State Police, now of California. Author of numerous books including the mystery series about probation officer Carolyn Sullivan and the series about D.A. Lily Forrester.

AKA: A.B. Rosenstiel. (1911-2012) Albuquerque. PhD in Anthropology, author and lecturer. Author of several works on anthropology and editor of Red and White : Indian views of the white man, 1492-1982.

Albuquerque. Master's degree in children's literature. Author of the Derby Daredevils books for children.

Author of her memoirs, Stranger to the Desert, about her life as a Britishwoman in southern New Mexico in the early 1900s after marrying a New Mexico rancher.

Los Alamos. For many years high school teacher in Los Alamos; writer of travel articles for area periodicals, historical fiction, and non-fiction for young people. Self-described as a "Janeite", writing "Southwest Gothic" romances in the Jane Austen style; titles include The Adobe Castle and Blaize Castle. Lifetime member of the Santa Fe Trail Association; has written a book about her travels along the Trail with friends, Without a Wagon on the Santa Fe Trail: Hiking Into History.

(1916-1999) Novelist and short story author; New York Times bestselling author. Moved to Albuquerque in 1968, after having spent time as writer-in-residence at the D.H. Lawrence Ranch outside of Taos. Author of several noted works including Call It Sleep and An American Type and Mercy of a Rude Stream.

Doctorate from the University of New Mexico in Latin American Contemporary Literature. Co-author with Daniel Combs of La Diáspora de un Aztlán norteño: MiChicanidad Creativity as Witnessed in Bilingual Ethno-Poetry and Photography.

(1975-1990) Santa Fe. Author of poems collected and published after her death, as Moments from My Journey. Proceeds from the sales of the collection went toward a scholarship fund for high school students established in her name.

Albuquerque audiobook publisher and author.

Degrees in history from UNM. Technician at the National Museum of History, Smithsonian Institution. Author of articles on New Mexico social and cultural history. Contributor to Labor in New Mexico : unions, strikes, and social history since 1881.

Splits time between Santa Fe and Singapore. Photographer and installation artist. MA from University of New Mexico, taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment For The Arts Fellowship. Works featured in major museums including the New Mexico Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Author of several books including Belonging: Los Alamos to Vietnam - Photoworks and Installations and La Gente De La Luz: Portraits From New Mexico.

Santa Fe. Has taught at College of Santa Fe. Screenwriter whose credits include Groundhog Day and Hear No Evil. Author of the book How To Write Groundhog Day.

Albuquerque. The "Doyenne of Death(TM)" and Certified Celebrant; columnist on death and dying for New Mexico periodicals. Author of A girl's pocket guide to trouser trout : reflection on dating and fly-fishing and A Good Goodbye : funeral planning for those who don't plan to die, which was awarded Best of Show in the 2011 New Mexico Book Awards.

Albuquerque. Former Young Adult librarian for the Dallas Public Library. Several books for young people, including Skin Deep and Steal Away Home and Strike : Mother Jones and the Colorado Coal Field War.

Past President of the New Mexico State Poetry Society. Author of Word sculptures in the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Garden.

Albuquerque. Noted political organizer, anti-war activist and counterculture icon. Strong connections to the Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground (Weathermen). Taught mathematics at Central New Mexico Community College. Author of Truth and Consequences: The Education of Mark Rudd and Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen.

Graduate of UNM School of Law; adjunct professor there. Served as Bernalillo County Probate Judge. Owner of Abogada Press. Columnist for the Albuquerque Journal. Author of several works on law in New Mexico; best known for Life planning in New Mexico : your guide to state law on powers of attorney, right to die, nursing home benefits, wills, trusts and probate.

Nature writer, essayist. Co-author of Sacred Lands of Indian America and
Windstone : natural arches, bridges, and other openings.

(1944-2021) Santa Fe. Author / editor of several works about New Mexico history, including Mabel Dodge Luhan : new woman, new worlds and Utopian vistas : the Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American counterculture.

Albuquerque. Has taught journalism at NMSU; winner of more than 50 editing/writing awards. Author of novels including two set in New Mexico: Eye of the Mountain God and Listen to the Mockingbird, and the Rachel Chavez mystery series set in Los Angeles.

Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at UNM. Co-editor of Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs and Linguistically Diverse Immigrant and Resident Writers: Transitions from High School to College; author of Transiciones: Pathways of Latinas and Latinos Writing in High School and College.

Albuquerque. Author of The Legend of Dreamland, the story of a 14-year-old Santa Fe girl getting drawn into a fantasy world. The author published this work when she was 10 years old.

(1915-1994) Author (with Herbert Lee Traylor) of The Saga of the Sierra Blanca; author of her memoirs Memories of Louise Coe Runnels - alias "Bonita Lou".

Albuquerque. Ph.D, specializes in suicidology. Author of novels including Route 66 Dreams and The Green Dress. As Michelle Linn-Gust author of nonfiction including Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven?: Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling and A Winding Road: A Handbook for Those Supporting the Suicide Bereaved.

AKA: "Maid Marian". (1845-1936) Marian Sloan Russell. As a young girl, one of the first Eastern females to travel (with her mother) westward along the Santa Fe Trail, eventually making five round-trip passages. Her book Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian Russell Along the Santa Fe Trail, dictated to her daughter-in-law later in life, chronicles her time on the Trail and life in locations around New Mexico including Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos from the 1850s into the 1870s.

Professor emeritus in humanities at Western New Mexico University. Author of several works including Standing in the Light : my life as a pantheist and Diary of a Citizen Scientist : Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World and Hunger : An Unnatural History.

Journalist. Writer for local magazines and newspapers. Author of Heroes and Villains of New Mexico: A Collection of True Stories.

Corrales. Retired research ornithologist. Poet with works in numerous publications and anthologies including Santa Fe Literary Review. Author of the poetry collection Feathered Dreams.

Author of Dirt Roads and Places They Take You: Poetry and Memoirs and the novel Saving Snowflakes in My Pocket: Love’s Survival Through Years of Deception.

(1821-1848) British explorer and hunter who traveled widely and wrote articles and books about his travels. Author of two books about visiting New Mexico, Life in the Far West (1847) and Adventures in New Mexico and the Rocky Mountains (1848).

Albuquerque. Outdoorsman and hiker who has walked major trails around the world. Author of several books including Long Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail for the Older Adventurer, The Gentle Art of Wandering, and co-author with Stephen Ausherman of 60 hikes within 60 miles : Albuquerque, including Santa Fe, Mount Taylor, and San Lorenzo Canyon.

Santa Fe. Poetry in publications and anthologies including Roanoke Review and The Atlanta Review.

Pseudonym used by Patricia Burford Ryan. Las Cruces. Author of many historical, romance, historical romance , and mystery novels, including the Gilded Age mystery series.

Taos. Playwright. Writer of non-fiction articles for newspapers, magazines, and professional journals. Editor, with author Daniel Dynan, of Holistic Indoor Gardening: A Panoptic View Through the Lens of Earthship Greenhouse Management.

Author of Into the Tall, Tall Grass.