New Mexico Authors

Lives part of the time in Santa Fe. Best known for the time-traveling romance Outlander Series and the Lord John series. New York Times bestselling author.

Born in New Mexico; longtime resident. Attended UNM. Photographer. Has worked for television and radio stations, and in communications for UNM's Public Affairs Department. Co-editor of Marietta Wetherill: Life With the Navajos in Chaco Canyon. Author of Roads to Center Place: A Cultural Atlas of Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi and several novels including A Day in Eternity.

Velarde. Top-ranked horse trainer. MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Works published in Tine House and Utne Reader. Author of Half Broke: a memoir.

Santa Fe. Counseling psychologist. Degrees in mental health nursing and counseling psychology from UNM. Author of Journeying: Where Shamanism and Psychology Meet and Grow Up Your Ego: Ten Scientifically Validated Stages to Emotional and Spiritual Maturity.

(1951-2013) Graduate of UNM, veterinary degree from Colorado State University. Longtime veterinarian in Los Lunas. Co-author, with sister Nancy Gage, of If Wishes Were Horses : the education of a veterinarian.

Albuquerque, Los Lunas. Author, playwright of Death Row Wedding. Co-author, with sister Loretta Gage, of If Wishes Were Horses : the education of a veterinarian.

Albuquerque. Author of the Christian romance novels Within Golden Bands and Land of My Dreams.

Santa Fe. Co-author, with Philip Metcalf, of Fire Ghosts, a photographic survey of the aftermath of the 2011 Los Conchas fire in the Jemez Mountains.

Author of Turbulent Taos, a collection of historical tales and photographs.

Author of several works including The Soulful Child : twelve years in the wilderness about her growing up in the counterculture in northern New Mexico.

Santa Fe. Served the State of New Mexico as Deputy Superintendent of Insurance and Director of Risk Management. Served as Honorary Consul of Spain in Santa Fe. Noted in NM, Mexico, and Spain for volunteer work. Contributor to All Trails Lead to Santa Fe: an anthology commemorating the 400th anniversary of the founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610.

Originally from Northern New Mexico, resident of Spain. Author of the novel Stone Horses set in New Mexico.

Retired educator from Eastern New Mexico University. Works published in several anthologies; author of the novel Secrets of the Plumed Saint : a tale of intrigue from northern New Mexico.

Albuquerque poet, featured in several area anthologies.

Documentary and fine art photographer and filmmaker. Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communications and Journalism at UNM. Teaches courses in photography, multimedia journalism, ethnography, media theory, and intercultural communications. Author / photographer of several works including In the Country of Empty Crosses: The Story of a Hispano Protestant Family in Catholic New Mexico.

Grew up in Albuquerque, graduated from Albuquerque High. Attended Yale; teaches English at Florida Southern College. Author of Lost in Arcadia, a dystopian novel centered in New Mexico.

Born and grew up in Santa Fe. Degree from University of Arizona. Editor of Southwestern Women: New Voices.

Teacher of creative writing; visiting professor at UNM. Author of many popular children's books including the Rotten Ralph series. Winner of numerous awards.

Seattle. Writing professor, author of several works including The Taos Truth Game, a novel about the early days of the Taos Art Colony and involving among others authors Myron Birnig and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

(1944-2010) Santa Fe. Journalist. Native of Colombia who moved to NM in 2004, seeking asylum after his writings about corrupt government officials garnered death threats. Co-author of Casa Colombiana and Praxis and Ambiguity of the Enemy.

El Paso and Albuquerque, now of Seattle. Teacher of fiction writing, and manuscript consultant; recipient of a fellowship from the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Author of the novelAll That Rises, about two families coping with life in the border city of El Paso.

Grew up around Northern New Mexico. Author of several books about hauntings in the Southwest including the Adobe Angels series and New Mexico Ghost Stories which won a 2007 New Mexico Book Award.

Degree in Applied Mathematics at UNM, worked at Sandia Labs. Author of several works, including The Witch Narratives : Reincarnation, a horror novel set in New Mexico and Return of the Bones, a fantasy about a Pueblo family using dream guidance to recover an ancestor's remains.

Born in Albuquerque. Educator, scholar, researcher. Professor of political science at UNM; served as president of UNM 2002-2003, the first native New Mexican Hispanic to serve as a college dean, academic vice-president and president at UNM. Co-founder of Zia Associates, a public opinion polling service. Author / co-author / editor / co-editor of many works including Governing New Mexico and Pursuing power : Latinos and the political system.

Born and raised in Albuquerque. Degree from UNM. Author/editor of a collection of stories, Memories of Torreon, New Mexico and Stories from the Manzano Mountains and Abstracts of a South Valley Nuevomexicana and A Journey Through New Mexico: Remembering our History, Preserving our culture.

Santa Fe native; gained a degree in natural resources management from NMSU. Contributor to Fly Fishing in Northern New Mexico.

Albuquerque. Author of Tell Me Another War Story: The Life of Evans Garcia - Courageous Soldier, American Hero, My Dad about his experiences as a Bataan Survivor.

Taos. Anthropologist and archaeologist. Poetry included in Southwestern Women: New Voices.

Abiquiu. Co-author (with Analinda Dunn) of The Genizaro & the Artist: Stories From New Mexico Villages about his long association working for Georgia O'Keeffe.

Grew up in Guadalupe New Mexico, in the Rio Puerco Valley. Recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico. Author / editor / translator of numerous books about New Mexico history and folktales, including Abuelitos : stories of the Río Puerco Valley; Albuquerque : feliz cumpleaños! : three centuries to remember and Platicas : conversations with Hispano writers of New Mexico. Author of Hoe, Heaven, and Hell : My Boyhood in Rural New Mexico.

Doctor of Education; has served in New Mexico as schoolteacher, principal, superintendent, and state cabinet secretary of public education. Recipient of numerous awards including the National Governors' Association Award for Excellence in State Government. Has served as executive director of New Mexico Voices for Children. Contributor to New Mexico 2050.

Santa Fe. House builder, scholarly researcher, teacher, and landscape designer. Poet, painter and photographer; founding editor of Red Mountain Press. Author of several works including Lifted to the Wind: Poems 1974-2015 and the memoir Drawing the Line.

(1829-1887) At age 17 traveled along the Santa Fe Trail; arrived with the company avenging the Taos Revolt. Spent time in NM 1846-47 and provided the only published eyewitness account of the execution of some of the revolutionaries; this account is in his book Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail, or, Prairie travel and scalp dances, with a look at los rancheros from muleback and the Rocky Mountain campfire.

(1850-1908) Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett. Served as Sheriff of Lincoln and Dona Ana Counties. Famous as the man who killed Billy the Kid. Died in Las Cruces. Author of The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, Noted Desperado of the Southwest.

(1940-2021) Physicist, specializing in space plasma. Longtime staffer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Author of Theory of Space Plasma Microinstabilities.

Artist, owner of Amador Publishers. Author/editor on several works, including The Time Dancer : a novel of gypsy magic and Where the Sky Used To Be, a coming-of-age story set in "Rio Bueno, New Mexico."

Born in Albuquerque. Nationally recognized poet and educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery. Full-time touring artist with performances nationwide. Poems featured in numerous publications including The Missouri Review and Poetry City U.S.A. Performances featured on international venues including HBO and VH1 and BBC. Author of several collections of poetry including New American Best Friend which includes material about growing up in New Mexico and then Trinidad.

Archaeologist at Chaco Culture National Historic Park. Author of several works; co-author of Prehistoric New Mexico: reason for survey, contributor to The Ancient Southwest : Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde and The Peopling of Bandelier: new insights from the archaeology of the Pajarito Plateau.

Santa Fe. M.A. in Spanish colonial art history from UNM. Served as curator of Spanish colonial art at the Museum of International Folk Art for seventeen years. Senior curator for the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art; consulting curator for El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Author of Traditional Arts of Spanish New Mexico : the Hispanic Heritage Wing at the Museum of International Folk Art, editor/revisor of Saints and Saint Makers of New Mexico. Editor, with Donna Pierce, of Cultural Convergence in New Mexico : Interactions in Art, History & Archaeology.

Grew up in Albuquerque, lived in Alaska before returning. Has worked at the New Mexico Wildlife Federation. Journalist with the Albuquerque Tribune; writer of articles for numerous periodicals including the Albuquerque Journal and The Santa Fe New Mexican and New Mexico magazine.

Carrizozo. Noted, award-winning graphic artist with work in periodicals including Heavy Metal. Illustrator on numerous biographies and adaptations of classics, and the Treasury of Victorian Murder series and the Treasury of XXth Century Murder series.

(1934-2017) Albuquerque, Corrales. Worked at several major newspapers before moving to New Mexico. Author of numerous magazine articles, book reviews, poems, two prize-winning short stories and two non-fiction books: Jump Start, Japan Comes to the Heartland and Fresh Ink, Behind the Scenes at Dallas Morning News.

Santa Fe. Writer, editor, and high school teacher. Author of the novel Love and Death in a Perfect World.

Alamogordo. Author of I Have Lived: life from a cancer survivor's perspective and The Christian Chronicles.

Worked for many years as a journalist in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Editor of Terra Nova Books, a publishing company in Santa Fe. Author of Fascinating Facts of New Mexico: Aliens, Artists, Atoms.

UNM professor of Spanish and Portuguese, translator of Spanish fiction into English. Editor of The Best of Sabine R. Ulibarrí : selected stories.

Formerly of New Mexico, now living in Mexico. Food and travel writer, founding food editor of Chile Pepper magazine. Co-author (with Dave DeWitt) of The Whole Chile Pepper Book; Barbecue inferno : cooking with chile peppers on the grill; and Fiery Appetizers : seventy spicy hot hors d'oeuvres : a Chile pepper magazine cookbook.

Creativity catalyst and workshop facilitator. Author/screenwriter and creator of The Q'ntana Trilogy of fantasy novels. Author of several memoirs and books on writing including The Voice of the Muse : answering the call to write and Writer's Block Unblocked: Seven Surefire Ways to Free Up Your Writing and Creative Flow.

Writer in the Wild Cards universe. Wife to author John Jos. Miller.

Santa Fe. Author of the novels Atlantic View and Strays.

Ph.D. in European history from UNM in Albuquerque. Taught European and Far East history at the Central New Mexico Community College for more than 20 years. Author of a book about Arabic-speaking people in New Mexico, Los Árabes of New Mexico : compadres from a distant land.

(1911-1975) Born in Texas, grew up in northwestern New Mexico. Outdoorsman who in the 1960s became an influential advocate for gathering wild foods. Author of numerous works including the breakthrough book Stalking the Wild Asparagus.

(1921-1987) Historian; visiting professor at many institutions including UNM. Noted for works on Oklahoma and Southwest history. Author of The Santa Fe and Taos colonies : age of the muses, 1900-1942 and The life and death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain.

Santa Fe, born and raised in Albuquerque. Attended Albuquerque Academy and UNM. Worked for the New Mexico Office of Indian Affairs. Author of magazine articles including a longtime winter sports column in New Mexico magazine; editor of Native Peoples magazine. Author of Skiing New Mexico : A Guide to Snow Sports in the Land of Enchantment. Known for Pueblos of the Rio Grande : a visitor's guide.

Daughter of a man who photographed Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, then postwar moved to Albuquerque to raise his family. Co-author (with Jon Michnovicz) of Los Alamos : 1944-1947 and (with Sharon Snyder) of Los Alamos and the Pajarito Plateau.

(1894-1991) Las Vegas-born novelist, memoirist, popularizer of Hispanic & Indian crafts, home economics expert & Peace Corps consultant. Best known for We Fed Them Cactus chronicling four generations of her family's life on the Llano Estacado, The Good Life: New Mexico Traditions and Food, and Historic Cookery.

Illustrator, with author Clayton Dorn Coburn, of Had To Take A Break: bicycling misadventures and Had To Take Another Break: more bicycling misadventures.

(1923-2012) Lived part of the time in Albuquerque. Author of the popular Mrs. Pollifax series.

New Mexico native. Lawyer; lectures on divorce topics for legal education seminars. Certified as a family law specialist by both the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the New Mexico Board of Specialization. Co-author, with Sandra Morgan Little, Roberta S. Batley, and Tiffany Oliver Leigh, of Divorce in New Mexico : the legal process, your rights, and what to expect.

Art historian, writer, and watercolorist. Lives in Virginia but spends extensive time each year in Maine and Santa Fe. Author of Olive Rush : finding her place in the Santa Fe art colony .

Author of Church of My Heart - Writings and Meditations, involving the Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque.

New Mexico native. Ph.D. in psychology from UNM. Co-creator of an active meditation process. Poetry published in many anthologies; author of three novels including Shatter My Heart.

Roswell. Editor / publisher at Yellow Jacket Press. Poet, photographer; author of Enchanted lands, New Mexico.

Albuquerque. Degrees from UNM; recipient of the Erna Fergusson Distinguished Alumni Award from UNM. Author of nearly twenty works of fiction, memoir, folktales, literary biographies and numerous monographs and essays on the literature, history, and culture of the American Southwest. Noted works include Nueva Granada : Paul Horgan and the Southwest and Beautiful swift fox : Erna Fergusson and the modern southwest.

Silver City. Articles, essays, columns, poetry and prose in numerous regional, national and international magazines. Author of Moods of the Dream Fog.

Teaches English at Western New Mexico University. NEA Fellowship recipient. Author of several poetry collections including Girl With Death Mask and the novels Jubilee and Trinity Sight.

Formerly of New Mexico, then resident of Bolivia. Wrote for New Mexico periodicals, produced a radio show in Albuquerque, recipient of the New Mexico Humanities Council First Times Award for Short Story Writing. Author of Chiva : a village takes on the global heroin trade and "My name is Chellis & I'm in recovery from Western civilization".

Freelance writer. Editor on numerous publications including Inside Business Magazine. In 2020 became Editor in Chief of New Mexico magazine.

Native of Dallas, spends part of each year in New Mexico. Commercial photographer. Author of the novel Angels in Tesuque which is set in Santa Fe.

Albuquerque, degree from UNM. Retired hot-air balloon pilot. Author of two youth books about Emerson, a Navajo boy: Stranded at Sheep Camp and Danger at the Rodeo.

Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard. Raised in Los Alamos, graduate of Los Alamos High School. Film & TV screenwriter, director, producer. Staff writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Writer on Cloverfield; co-writer (with Joss Whedon) and director on The Cabin in the Woods. Wrote the film adaptation of Andy Weir's The Martian. Writer/producer on other Hollywood movies.

Grew up in Santa Fe. Travel writer. Author of the novel Sailing an Alien Sea about two girls growing up in 1960s Santa Fe.

Santa Fe. Author of the children's book Once Upon A Pizza: Eight crazy ways pizza wasn't really invented, and one it might have been.

Santa Fe. Journalist and teacher. Served as editor for the Santa Fe Reporter. Faculty member in the Creative Writing Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Works in numerous publications including Salon and The Huffington Post. Author of Inside Story: Everyone’s Guide to Reporting and Writing Creative Nonfiction .

Painter, poet, teacher of seminars in writing. Author of several books on writing, including Writing down the bones : freeing the writer within and The true secret of writing : connecting life with language and Thunder and lightning : cracking open the writer's craft.

Pen name of sister writing team Cynthia Drew and Joan Golden of Albuquerque. Under this name, author of Stealing First and the Wynn Cabot mystery series.

Albuquerque. Screenwright, playwright. With sister Cynthia Drew, also writes as Drew Golden.

Santa Fe. Naturalist and birder. MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Houston. Essays in numerous periodicals and anthologies. Contributor to First & Wildest : The Gila Wilderness at 100.

Albuquerque. Poet with several books including The Music of Her Rivers and Blood Desert : witnesses, 1820-1880.

Born in Albuquerque. Longtime counselor with Albuquerque Public Schools. Author of children's books including Amadito and Spider Woman and The Proud Little Burro.

Taos. Poet who has served as editor on several poetry periodicals. Winner of numerous awards including a 2011 New Mexico Book Award. Author of several books of poetry including Vocabulary of Silence and Girl.

Santa Fe. Retired National Park Service Supervisory Historian. Co-author of several works on New Mexico history including New Mexico : images of a land and its people and New Mexico: a history.

Santa Fe, grew up in Las Vegas New Mexico. Longtime editor with The Santa Fe New Mexican, writer of article for New Mexico magazine.

Born in Roswell, raised in Albuquerque's North Valley. Three degrees from Stanford including a M.A. in Sociology . Served as Professor in School of Law & American Studies at the University of New Mexico. Numerous works in scholarly journals; has served as an associate editor, a member of the editorial board, or a reviewer for a number of scholarly journals including Studies in Law. Author of Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race and Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism; co-editor of Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research.

Pojoaque Valley. Assistant professor in the Honors College at UNM. Author of Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos.

AKA: Phillip B. Gonzales. On the faculty at UNM; former director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute. Author/editor/co-author of several works, including Expressing New Mexico : Nuevomexicano creativity, ritual, and memory and Sunbelt working mothers : reconciling family and factory.

Santa Fe. Medical degrees from several institutions including UNM. Pediatrician, public health physician; Maternal Child Health Director in the New Mexico Department of Health. Author of Lessons from a Gentle Life: Reflections on Love, Loss and Healing.

Divides his time between Illinois and Santa Fe. Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute. Author of several bestselling works on survival including Deep Survival : who lives, who dies, and why : true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death and the novels Lucy and El Vago, which involves the people around Pancho Villa.

Performance poet, a founding member of the Angry Brown Poets. Served as Poet Laureate of Albuquerque 2016-2018. Author of several works and collections including ...But My Friends Call Me Burque and Duende de Burque : Albuquerque poems and musings.

Northern New Mexico. Author of the memoir Atop the Windmill, I Could See Forever.

Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at UNM. Co-author of Nación Ǵenízara : ethnogenesis, place, and identity in New Mexico.

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Born in Roy, grew up in Roy and Rosebud. Degrees in Education and Romance Languages from UNM; taught at New Mexico State University and UNM. Has served on the boards of several organizations involved with Hispanic literature including the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities. Author of several works on literature including Las Mujeres Hablan: An Anthology of Nuevo Mexicana Writers and Pasó por aquí : critical essays on the New Mexican literary tradition, 1542-1988. Co-editor of The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico and Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States. Author of the fictional autobiography Paletitas de Guayaba.

(1943-2011) Born in Las Vegas NM, grew up in Santa Rosa and on a ranch near Pintada. Degree from Highlands University. Graduate of Harvard Law School; served in various offices around NM including Director of the Civil Division of the New Mexico Attorney General's Office, Chief Staff Counsel for the Public Service Commission, General Counsel of the Department of Finance and Administration, General Counsel of the Public Employee Retirement Association, and Santa Fe City Attorney. Historian, focusing on Southwest history, culture, and crypto-Judaism. Contributor to All Trails Lead to Santa Fe : an anthology commemorating the 400th anniversary of the founding of Santa Fe.

Born in Roswell, resident of Placitas. Poet, improvisational pianist. Organizer of area poetry events. Author of collections of his poems, Firecracker Soup : poems, 1980-1987 and Here on Earth : 59 sonnets.

Albuquerque. Mandan, Hidatsa and Tsimshian tribe heritage and is of Japanese descent. Author of a several children's books including Forever Cousins, involving young Native Americans balancing Rez and city life. Other titles include Rock Your Mocs and Deb Haaland and Too Much.

(1914-2005) Cuyamungue New Mexico. Internationally recognized anthropologist specializing in researches on trance journeys, glossolalia, and ecstatic experiences. In 1963 acquired land in New Mexico; in 1978 founded Cuyamungue: The Felicitas D. Goodman Institute which continues to do researches into altered states of consciousness. Shared her time between New Mexico and Ohio. Author of several noted works including Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences and My Last Forty Days: A Visionary Journey among the Pueblo Spirits.

Born and raised in Albuquerque, then of Santa Fe. Degree in Theater from UNM, Master's in Acting from DePaul University. Screenwriter, teacher. Author of the play #UnderTheInfluence. Director of short film The Maid.

Los Angeles author who wrote the book Leaving Tinkertown after she returned to New Mexico to care for her father, Ross Ward, the eccentric artist who created the Tinkertown Museum in the East Mountains, during the last years of his life. Essayist for national periodicals.

Alamogordo. Author of History of First Baptist Church Alamogordo New Mexico, 1898-2018.

Albuquerque East Mountains, resident of NM since 1978. Freelance writer / editor for newspapers around the state. Founder of the Independent in Edgewood. Author of a collection of some of his articles, A Reporter's World: passion, places, and people.

Taos. Scholar in religious studies, research associate at the School of American Research. Served as a tribal planner for Taos Pueblo. Author of The Taos Indians and the battle for Blue Lake; co-author (with Marc Simmons) of The short truth about Kit Carson and the Indians; editor of Kit Carson : Indian fighter or Indian killer?.

Winner of Lambda Literary, Alternative Press, and New Mexico Book Awards. Editor of Santa Fe Noir; author of numerous works including Atlas of the Human Heart, We Were Witches, and her memoirs The End of Eve

(1948-2012) Farmington radio personality. Taught at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales and worked with the University Public Radio Affiliate, and Program Director for public radio. Served on the boards of several community arts organizations. Author of several books including Belle's Star.

Best known for the Jumper books, basis for the movie of the same name. Also writes the 7th Sigma series. New York Times bestseller. Husband to author Laura J. Mixon. In 2012, elected President of the Science Fiction Writers of America.

(1915-1983) Lived in various locations around the U.S. including Taos. Novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, editor, and teacher. Noted works: The House of Breath (novel), Ghost and Flesh (short story collection), and Three Women: a memoir which features biographies of Mabel Dodge Luhan, Taos painter Dorothy Brett, and Goyen's friend and benefactor Frieda Lawrence.

Pen name of author Linda Lea Castle

Holloman Air Force Base. Air Force test pilot; became the youngest commander of an active Air Force flying squadron. Co-author, with photographer Michael Williams of Golden Arms AKA Test Pilot.

Madrid. Dancer, writer, radio show host. Longtime writer for a country music magazine; creator of the popular Instagram dance project Personal Practice. Author of Getting to Center: Pathways to Finding Yourself Within the Great Unknown and How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care and A Sacred Shift: A Book About Personal Practice .

Longtime grade school teacher. Author of Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song and I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery.

Jim Graebner. Professor in the Applied Technology Department at Central New Mexico Community College, associated with their Film Technicians' Training Program. Named 2014 Educator of the Year by the New Mexico Association of Career and Technical Education. Director / Producer of numerous short films. Playwright of WInners of the White Atomic Sweepstakes.

Santa Fe. Has written extensively about Southwestern travel, culture, and people. Served as CEO of New Mexico magazine. Author of New Mexico Food Trails : a road tripper's guide to hot chile, cold brews, and classic dishes from the Land of Enchantment.

Santa Fe. Author of Begoso Cabin: A Pecos Country Retreat which relates her experiences after she purchased an abandoned sheepherder's cabin in northern New Mexico. The book won the Willa Cather Award in 2000.

Santa Fe. Attended St. John's College; he and his spouse were instrumental in renovating the library there. Author of The American Civil War and the British Press and Our American Brethren: A History of Letters in the British Press During the American Revolution, 1775-1781.

(1874-1948) Blanche Chloe Grant. Came to Taos on vacation in 1920 and decided to stay permanently. Magazine illustrator, muralist with works at New Mexico Tech and Taos Presbyterian Church; artist who often painted Native Americans. Paintings at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos. Author of several works including Taos Indians and When Old Trails Were New: the story of Taos and Dona Lona: a story of Old Taos and Santa Fe.

Santa Fe. Retired hydrologist. Author of Kitten Caboodle.

M.A. in history from NMSU. Served as president of the Historical Society of New Mexico. Served as Curator of History at the Albuquerque Museum. Contributor to Essays in twentieth-century New Mexico history and New Mexico baptisms, Church of San Felipe de Neri in Albuquerque, 1850-1857.

Albuquerque author of Asleep At the Wheel of Time and The Flying Caterpillar.

Northern New Mexico. Recipient of several grants and fellowships including from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities. Author / co-author of numerous biographies and works on Southwest history including Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America and Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico and Historic Churches of New Mexico Today. Author of numerous books of poetry including An archaeology of silence: Headstone for the Anasazi.

Santa Fe. Writer of restaurant reviews, cookbook reviews, and food features for publications including the Santa Fe New Mexican. Attended New Mexico State University and Santa Fe University of Art and Design; taught English at Santa Fe Community College. Mariachi musician. Author of Mariachi.

Charles Joseph Greaves. Santa Fe author of The Chimera Club and the Jack MacTaggart mystery series starting with Hush Money. As C. Joseph Greaves, author of the mystery novel Hard Twisted.

Santa Fe. Author of Backpackers’ Ultra Food and Trail Writer's Guide which involves the Pecos Wilderness.

AKA: Deborah Green. Geologist, bookseller at Bookworks in Albuquerque. Piece in Alone together : love, grief, and comfort in the time of COVID-19, an anthology put together to benefit independent booksellers affected by the pandemic.

Albuquerque area. Author of science fiction romance, fantasy, time-travel, and historical novels.

Associate Professor at UNM; specializes in the literature and culture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England with a focus on theater and performance in the writings of Shakespeare, Milton, and their contemporaries. Author of Metropolitan Tragedy: Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England.

Freelance writer based in Santa Fe. Writer of articles for many national publications including Outside magazine and Conde Nast Traveler. Contributor to New Mexico for Dummies.

Teaches at New Mexico State University. Degrees in English and Creative Writing. Works featured in various anthologies. Author of several collections of poetry including Subterranean and Tracer and A Carnage in the Lovetrees.

Albuquerque. Freelance writer and editor; writing instructor and lecturer. Writer of articles and columns for area publications including albuquerqueARTS magazine. Author of Eugene Bullard : world's first Black fighter pilot.

Taos / Arroyo Hondo. Teacher of creative writing. Author of Beside the Rio Hondo : a memoir of rural New Mexico. So-author (with Jim Levy) of memories of the counterculture in New Mexico, Those were the Days: Life and Love in 1970s northern New Mexico. Editor of Drinking from the Stream: Women's Prose & Poetry About Nature.

Pen name of an anonymous New Mexico author. Author of My Brother is Away, about a little girl dealing with her older brother being incarcerated.

(1806-1850) Explorer and naturalist who collected plant specimens in his travels. As a merchant, brought goods into New Mexico Territory along the developing trade routes; credited with bringing the first printing press to NM in 1834. His book Commerce of the Prairies, detailing his experiences along the Santa Fe Trail, drew international attention and inspired others to come to the area.

Northern New Mexico. Master’s degree in creative writing. Author / co-author of several poetry collections including Drenched and Snow Falling on Snow and (with Joan Logghe and Miriam Sagan) Love & Death: greatest hits and The Storm That Tames Us.

Linguist. Instructor at Central New Mexico Community College-Albuquerque; College of Santa Fe-Albuquerque; UNM. Author of numerous papers on linguistics and tribal culture. Featured in Neon pow-wow : new Native American voices of the Southwest.

Born and raised in New Mexico. Retired engineer; leadership coach and speaker. Gun safety activist. Author of a memoir, Sins of the System ; Trauma, Guns, Tragedy, and the Betrayal of Our Children about a shooting tragedy in her family.

Native New Mexican. Retired Presidential Professor of Mathematics from the University of New Mexico. Academic field of probability theory; recognized as one of the initiators of the theory of random evolutions. Author of numerous science articles for periodicals including Scientific American. Author of Lenguaje: A Cultural History of the Spanish Language of New Mexico.

Rio Rancho. Degree from College of Santa Fe. Retired from the New Mexico Health and Environment Department. Author of her memoirs, Growing Up in Bernalillo, 1934 to 1954.

Albuquerque. Owner and president of an Albuquerque advertising agency. Author of The It's Just Lunch! guide to dating in Albuquerque.

Splits her time between Washington DC and Santa Fe. Author of many popular novels and mysteries; writes several mystery series including the popular Richard Jury series. Received the 2012 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. New York Times bestseller.

Galisteo. Spiritual teacher, healer; keynote speaker worldwide. Founder of the Light Institute in Galisteo. Author of numerous works including The Evolution of God and The Healing of Emotion: Awakening the Fearless Self.

Santa Fe. Freelance editor and writer. B.A. in English/Writing, A.A. in culinary arts. Has served as Editor-in-Chief of Su Casa magazine.

Taos. Teacher, photographer, psychotherapist. Author of the poetry collection We Go On Living.

Santa Fe. Poet. Author of Breath of Harvest Moon and Shadows.

Las Cruces-raised, now Albuquerque resident. Western re-enactor. Author of several books on Southwest history, including Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide : all about rodeo and Hoist a Cold One! : historic bars of the Southwest, and (as Mesa Dean) the novels in the Colton Brothers Saga. Author of the biography Before Billy the Kid.

Formerly co-owner of a fishing store in Santa Fe; co-founder and past president of the Sangre de Cristo Fly Fishers. Public information officer for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. Contributor to Fly Fishing in Northern New Mexico.

Adjunct professor, Humanities Department at Western New Mexico University. Author of the textbook Cosmos, Chaos, and Process in Western Thought: Towards a New Science and Existentialist Social Ethic and the novels The Violinist: or "Once More, Without Feeling" and sNOweYES: sometimes god is the terrorist.

(1906-1988) Las Cruces. Editor and publisher of the Las Cruces Citizen for many years; served as vice president of the New Mexico Press Association. Editor of the autobiography of Mesilla Valley pioneer Harry H. Bailey, When New Mexico Was Young.

Born and raised in New Mexico, now of Denver. Author of Cottonwood Saints, a novel based upon his mother's life growing up in Las Vegas New Mexico.

(1962-2011) Santa Fe. Ballet dancer, film maker. Author and illustrator of several works including Herman and Poppy Go Singing in the Hills, a children's book about ponies exploring the hills of New Mexico.

Santa Fe. Editor and writer specializing in travel, action sports, and the outdoors. Has served as editor/writer for numerous publications including National Geographic and Outside and New Mexico magazine.

Author of the Exponential Apocalypse books and numerous short stories, two of which were nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Divides her time between New Mexico and North Carolina. Editor / copyeditor / proofreader. Articles and essays in numerous national periodicals and anthologies including the Huffington Post and The Razor. Two-time Pushcart nominee.

Rancher who settled in the area of Laguna Pueblo in 1881, where he developed a flour mill. Author of Schat-Chen : History, Traditions, and Narratives of the Queres Indians of Laguna and Acoma.

Historian and linguist in the National Park Service's Spanish Colonial Research Center at UNM. Has served on the staff of the Colonial Latin American Historical Review. Co-author of Between two countries : a history of Coronado National Memorial, 1939-1990.

Instructor at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, now an Albuquerque resident. Reviewer, essayist; author of Feeling the Unthinkable : Essays on Social Justice.

Degree from UNM, Ph.D. in physics from Cornell. Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Numerous technical publications. Co-author, with Paul A. Johnson, of Nonlinear Mesoscopic Elasticity: The Complex Behaviour of Rocks, Soil, Concrete.

Truchas, Santa Fe. Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from UNM and a Master of Arts and PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester. Has served as senior editor of New Mexico magazine. Writing focuses on Indigenous and Chicanx art practices and histories of land use in the Southwest, with works published regionally, nationally, and internationally. Author of Georgia O'Keeffe At Home.

Albuquerque. Reporter, professor at several universities. Author of several books of literary and cultural criticism and history, including Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement. Author of several novels including Promise and The Accidentals. Author of a memoir, Wishing for Snow.

(1954-2021) Albuquerque area, lived "in a handmade house off the grid". Author of science fiction and historical short stories and the novel Wind Out of Canaan.