New Mexico Authors

Albuquerque. "Writer, beer lover, sports fanatic and metalhead." Writer of articles and reviews for numerous periodicals including Albuquerque The Magazine, The Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico Magazine, and the Sports Xchange and MiLB.com. One of the founders of the NM Dark Side Brew Crew, an online community of beer-loving writers. Author of Albuquerque Beer : Duke City history on tap.

Writer and journalist. Co-author, with Mark Preston, of The Hatch Chile Cookbook : hot & spicy recipes featuring the world's finest chile peppers.

MFA from University of New Mexico. Poet and educator. Work, often involving comic book themes, featured in numerous anthologies including Multiverse! An Anthology of Superhero Poetry of Superhuman Proportions. Author of the poetry collection Missing You, Metropolis.

Placitas. Formerly a geography professor at Humboldt State University in California; part of the adjunct faculty of UNM's Department of Geography. Co-author (with Marc Simmons) of Following the Santa Fe Trail : a guide for modern travelers; author of Following the Royal Road : a guide to the historic Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.

(1909-1996) John Brinckerhoff "Brinck" Jackson. Grew up partly on a farm in NM, later lived near El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Instructor, landscape designer; founder, publisher, and editor of Landscape magazine. Noted for works on the effects of landscape on culture and architectural vernacular, dubbed "the father of landscape studies". Taught at Harvard and UC Berkeley. Works include Discovering the Vernacular Landscape and The Essential Landscape: the New Mexico Photographic Survey.

Santa Fe. Writer of articles for numerous publications including The Santa Fe Reporter. Poet with works in many publications. Author of the poetry collection From Other Tongues, which gathers words from other languages considered untranslatable into English.

East Indian heritage, born and raised in New Mexico. Best known for The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing.

Retired professor of environmental science at New Mexico Highlands University. Contributor to Fly Fishing in Northern New Mexico.

Practicing physician for over 30 years. Writer of professional scientific papers and articles for popular magazines. Author of the novels Breckkan and The Turned Field.

Santa Fe. Founding director of the not-for-profit WingSpan Poetry Project. Recipient of numerous grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. Author of Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air which won a 2019 New Mexico Book Award. Poet Laureate of Santa Fe as of 2020.

Sometimes as Thomas Jaehn. Ph.D. in History from UNM; Librarian Archivist at New Mexico History Museum. Compiler/editor of Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico; author of German Immigrants in New Mexico During the Territorial Period and Germans in the Southwest, 1850-1920.

E. Wylie James. Albuquerque. Author/illustrator of numerous works for young people, including The Mud Family and Listening at the Gate. Fantasy series: The Seeker Chronicles.

Navajo, born in Gallup and raised in Prewitt. Degree in photography from UNM. Has worked for major corporations including Nike and the James Beard Foundation. Photographer for Albuquerque The Magazine. Author of the award-winning book One Nation, One Year : a Navajo photographer's 365-day journey into a world of discovery, life, and hope.

Author of romance novels.

(1900-?) Born in Georgia, came to New Mexico Territory with his father; his experiences growing up in NM are detailed in Territorial Tales. Mining and construction engineer, which career took him to many parts of the state. Author of many articles and short stories for periodicals, and several novels about New Mexico including Seven Was the Padre's Number and Madam Varnish and the Golden Era, and a book about mining in Dona Ana County, The Curse of the San Andres.

AKA: Isabel James, Waabishikwebinesiikwe (White Eagle Thunderbird Woman). Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Chihuahua's Raramuri. Born in Albuquerque. Co-editor (with Cheyenne Anderson) and poetry featured in South Valley : Poetry and Art of the South Valley.

(1891-1968) Moved to Taos in the 1930s and lived there until her death. Friend to Mabel Dodge Luhan and Georgia O'Keeffe. Painter and textile artist, with pieces in collections around New Mexico and the country. Author of several books including Paintings in Yarn: the colcha stitch and Allow Me to Present: 18 ladies and gentlemen and Taos, N.M., 1885-1939.

AKA: William Roderick James. (1892-1942) Born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault in Canada, though in later life he claimed to have been born in Montana. Pursued a cowboy life in several locations including a ranch near Cimarron New Mexico. Jailed in Nevada for cattle rustling, he used his time there to develop his drawing skills. After time spent in San Francisco, moved to New Mexico and developed contacts in the Santa Fe Artist's Colony. Later lived in Nevada, Montana, and California. Writer of articles for periodicals. Writer / illustrator of 24 books, many for young people, including The Will James Cowboy Book and Uncle Bill: a tale of two kids and a cowboy and the Newbery Award-winning Smoky the Cowhorse which had three film adaptations. Author of his autobiography Lone Cowboy which was also made into a film as was his book Sand.

Tesuque. Co-author, with wife Cheryl Alters Jamison, of numerous cookbooks. Noted works include The Rancho de Chimayó Cookbook : the traditional cooking of New Mexico and The Border Cookbook : authentic home cooking of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico and Tasting New Mexico : recipes celebrating one hundred years of distinctive home cooking.

Tesuque. Co-author, with husband Bill Jamison, of numerous cookbooks. Noted works include The Rancho de Chimayó Cookbook : the traditional cooking of New Mexico and The Border Cookbook : authentic home cooking of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico and Tasting New Mexico : recipes celebrating one hundred years of distinctive home cooking. Served on the board of the Santa Fe nonprofit Cooking with Kids.

Raised in New Mexico. Former mathematics teacher. Author of a mystery thriller, Little Big Dreams, involving lucid dreaming and first in a planned series.

Albuquerque. Degree in journalism from UNM. Has worked as journalist and public relations consultant specializing in news media analysis and writing. Worked as press secretary for Senator Pete Domenici. Developed community relations programs for several institutions including Los Alamos Laboratory, and worked as a technical writer for Sandia National Laboratories. Author of New Wine, Fresh Skins! Essays & Insights On 21st Century Issues and Not Just New Mexico's Senator: Senator Pete V. Domenici's Leadership.

Albuquerque. Retired high school teacher. Author of WALK: Jamie Bacon's Secret Mission on the Camino de Santiago.

AKA: Cleo Jaramillo. Arroyo Hondo native, folklorist, and founder of the NM Folklore Society. Author of The Genuine New Mexico Tasty Recipes : with additional materials on traditional Hispano food and Shadows of the past (Sombras del pasado) which is about life around Arroyo Hondo.

Grants. Editor of the Cibola Beacon. Co-author, with Paul Milan, of Grants-Milan in the Images of America series.

Las Vegas-born UNM professor and author of her memoirs, Madame Ambassador: the Shoemaker's Daughter about her time as President Carter's Ambassador to Honduras.

Graduate of New Mexico State University; Master of Science degree in Early Childhood Education from Erikson Institute. Has worked in the field of early childhood for over twenty-five years. A Governor-appointed member of New Mexico's Early Learning Advisory Council. Author of the children's book Gust! Gust! Gust! about a young boy in northern New Mexico who overcomes his fear of the wind and learns how it benefits his village.

Chimayo. Founding member of the Chimayo Cultural Preservation Association and curator of the Chimayo Museum. Author of Los Chimayosos: a community history. Contributor to Cultural Convergence in New Mexico: Interactions in Art, History & Archaeology.

Santa Fe psychologist & author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway and Feel the Fear--and Beyond: Mastering the Techniques for Doing it Anyway and books on interpersonal dynamics.

Santa Fe caterer, dessert chef, specialty baker, owner of A Piece of Cake New York Cheese-Cake Company & co-author of Red Chile Bible: Southwestern classic & gourmet recipes and Salsas, Sauces, Marinades & more : extraordinary meals from ordinary ingredients.

Author of several books about Mayan cosmology and 2012, including Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-Date.

Formerly New Mexico State Historian, State Records Center and Archives. Author / co-author of many works about New Mexico's historical records. Co-author (with Albert H. Schroeder) of A Brief History of New Mexico.

Graduate of UNM. Widely-traveled writer on a variety of subjects. Author of several works on New Mexico including TIjerina and (with photographer Karl Kernberger) Ghost Towns of New Mexico: playthings of the wind and Land of Clear Light : wild regions of the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico : how to reach them and what you will find there.

(1937-2017) Santa Fe. Musician, composer, teacher. Essayist, poet. Project organizer for many foundations. Author of articles for numerous professional journals. Critic for the Santa Fe New Mexican. Author of several works including Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century.

Professor Emerita of History at New Mexico State University. Author/editor of several works on women in the American West, including One foot on the Rockies : women and creativity in the modern American West and Promise to the land : essays on rural women; co-editor (with Darlis A. Miller) of New Mexico women : intercultural perspectives.

Santa Fe. Co-author of The Woman's Guide to Starting a Business. As Meredith Rich, author of the Power and Pleasure series.

Albuquerque. Writer and poet with works in numerous publications including the Albuquerque Journal. Author of Around the Edges: Gritty Sensations of a Life in Constant Motion which includes material about her retiring to Albuquerque.

Twin Lakes New Mexico. Mexican Clan born for Middle People Clan. Has served on several boards/commissions for disability and vocational rehabilitation. Author of UNBROKEN SPIRIT: My Life Before and After Quadriplegia.

AKA: Andy Johnson. President of the board of directors of the Taos Center for the Arts. Co-author of Spiritual Passports/Pasaportes Espirituales: The Unseen Images of an Artist Who Never Lived to See Them about the work of his wife, photographer Nancy Wood.

Santa Fe. Author of the mystery series about "hit woman" Cordelia Morgan.

Editor (with Robert K. Dauner) of Early Albuquerque : a photographic history, 1870-1918; author of Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico : a guide to its history and architecture; co-author (with Sharon P. Johnson) of Gilded Palaces of Shame : Albuquerque's redlight districts, 1880-1914 and Wild West Bartender's Bible.

Roswell. Illustrator of several books, including Cowboy's Christmas and T is for Tortilla : a Southwestern Alphabet Book.

Albuquerque. Attended UNM; teacher of English and Communications at both high school and college levels. Author of the novel Stolen Miracles and Other Deeds of Dubious Intent.

Carlsbad. Author of Legendary Locals of Carlsbad.

Albuquerque, raised in Roswell. Author of Summer of Champions about his team winning the Little League World Series; author of the book of short stories Down to Earth in Roswell and the historical fiction The P.I. and the Harvey Girls.

Santa Fe. Commentator, essayist; co-founder of the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop. Articles in many national publications. Author of several books on science, including The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments and A shortcut through time : the path to the quantum computer and Fire in the mind : science, faith, and the search for order, which discusses both Penitente and Tewa belief systems.

Worked as a Ranger in the Santa Fe National Forest and Pecos Valley. Author of Reminiscences of a Forest Ranger 1914-1944.

Ph.D. in history at UNM; teaches history at Wichita State University. Author of / contributor to several works including The penitentiaries in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah from 1900 to 1980 and Essays in twentieth-century New Mexico history.

Degree in creative writing and literature from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Featured in Santa Fe Noir.

Senior Technical Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Degree in Geology from UNM, Ph.D. from the Sorbonne. Numerous technical publications, holder of three patents. Co-author, with Robert A. Guyer, of Nonlinear Mesoscopic Elasticity: The Complex Behaviour of Rocks, Soil, Concrete.

Silver City. Co-author, with Ronald Smorynski, of Fly-fishing in southern New Mexico.

Sharon Peregrine Johnson. Co-author (with Byron A. Johnson) of Gilded palaces of shame : Albuquerque's redlight districts, 1880-1914 and Wild West Bartender's Bible.

Walter Willard Johnson. (1897-1968). Taos. Poet, author; co-creator/editor of The Laughing Horse magazine, which was published on the UC Berkeley campus with Johnson editing it from afar. Popular figure with the Taos and Santa Fe literati; friend to Oliver La Farge. Known for poetry collection Horizontal Yellow. Biography: Spud Johnson & Laughing Horse by Sharyn Udall.

Santa Fe. Born on the Navajo reservation. Noted storyteller and speaker. Recipient of the Toastmaster’s Presidential Citation Award in 2007. Trainer, workshop organizer on writing and researching Native American genealogy. Author of several works including Finding Helen - a Navajo miracle.

Professor Emerita of linguistics and education at UNM. Co-author, with Reuben Hersh, of Loving and Hating Mathematics : challenging the myths of mathematical life. Author of Creative Collaboration and Notebooks of the Mind: explorations of thinking.

Taos. Diné / Cheyenne. Indigenous public speaker, artist, scholar and community organizer. Co-author of Lifting Hearts Off The Ground: Declaring Indigenous Rights In Poetry.

Albuquerque. Served as editor of the newsletter for the New Mexico Library Association. Co-author, with Stanley M. Hordes, of Historical Markers in New Mexico.

Theodore Sylvester Jojola. Enrolled member of the Pueblo of Isleta. Professor in the Master's Program in Community and Regional Planning at UNM. Contributor to The Multicultural Southwest: a reader.

Degree from Western New Mexico University. Recipient of the 2012 Homestead Foundation Fellowship from the Western Writers of America. Writer for regional publications including Wild West magazine. Author of The Vendetta of Felipe Espinosa.

Grew up in Albuquerque; degree in English literature from UNM. Served as Night Editor on the UNM Daily Lobo. Served on the staff of Sen. Pete Domenici. Author of Washington Irving: An American Original and Jim Henson: the biography and George Lucas : A Life and Becoming Dr. Seuss. New York Times bestseller.

Santa Fe. Masters in Psychology; freelance writer, conference speaker and counselor of victims of psychopathic predators. Author of And The Angel Rocked Me: A Memoir of a Multiple Personality about her experiences growing up in an abusive household on a ranch in New Mexico, her marriage to a psychopath, and the resultant multiple personality disorder.

Portales author of the series about paranormal investigator Charley Davidson, set in Albuquerque, and the young adult Darklight series. New York Times bestseller.

Professor Emeritus, English Department at UNM, also teaches in the Dept. of Theatre and Dance. Freelance theatre director with many productions of plays, musicals, and operas in English and Spanish. Has devised educational programs involving humanities lecturers and booklets for high school teachers. Editor of New Mexico Plays.

Santa Fe. Editorial coach and mentor. Author of The Writer's Block Myth.

Albuquerque. Noted singer-songwriter, winner of numerous awards. Psychologist and counselor. Author of several novels set in late-1800s New Mexico, and the Jared Delaney Western series.

Teacher in Latin American history. Author of numerous works, including Pueblo warriors & Spanish conquest; Nueva Vizcaya : heartland of the Spanish frontier, and Los paisanos : Spanish settlers on the northern frontier of New Spain.

(1919-1990) Silver City author of Memories of Santa Rita.

(1936-1979) Born in Albuquerque, degree in education from UNM. Lived for most of the remainder of his life in Texas. Playwright, noted for his Texas Trilogy.

Writer of short stories for periodicals. Author of several novels including The Big Wheel and Jupiter and Gilgamesh: A Novel of Sumeria and Texas.

Northern New Mexico. Writer, teacher and memoir coach; has taught fiction and creative non-fiction including at UNM. Founder of several writing workshops and a literary journal. Essays and fiction in numerous publications including The Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art.

Albuquerque. Author of Albuquerque: Breaking Bad, a novel about drug trafficking in Albuquerque.

Author of Pueblo Spirits in the Life of Felicitas D. Goodman about her mother's researches into Pueblo spirituality and ecstatic experience. Anthropologist Felicitas Goodman founded the Cuyamungue Institute in New Mexico in 1978, which continues to do research into altered states of consciousness.

Splits residence between Seattle and Albuquerque. Author of The Bookstore of Other Languages.

Neil Merton Judd. (1887-1976) Archaeologist who studied under Edgar Lee Hewett. Noted for involvement in identifying and excavating Ancestral Puebloan sites in the Four Corners area; headed the first federally backed expedition to research Chaco Canyon. Author of several works about Pueblo Bonito including The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito and Everyday Life in Pueblo Bonito.

Student of creative writing at New Mexico State University. Author of the poetic work Wyoming, the Next Question to Ask (to Answer).

Albuquerque East Mountains. Outdoorsman, hiker, cyclist, explorer. Author of several works on exploring New Mexico including The Place Names of New Mexico and Best Hikes with Children in New Mexico. Author of the novel Sweeney which won a New Mexico Book Award for 2012 and the novel Treasure Tale: Some Searches End with Beginnings (2020). Co-editor of Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains.

Grew up in Santa Fe, Belen. Degree in creative writing; teacher of English at UNM Valencia campus. Works featured in several publications including The Santa Fe Literary Review. Featured in Santa Fe Noir.

Santa Fe. Author of the novels Still Life In a Red Dress and Morning of the World.

Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. Author of numerous articles in Indian, European, and U.S. literary criticism journals. Author of Family Quarrels: Towards a Criticism of Indian Writing in English and of a collection of poems, Chiffon Saris. Editor of Conversations with V.S. Naipaul; co-editor, with UNM professor Deborah Fillerup Weagel, of Emerging South Asian Women Writers: Essays and Interviews.