New Mexico Authors

Albuquerque. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from UNM. Author of The Disgruntled Cowboy, a collection of short stories set in Territorial New Mexico. Author of children's books including The Boy Who Slew The Dragon! and The Littlest Elf.

Moved to Santa Fe in 1978; founder and chef of Cafe Pasqual's restaurant. Co-founder of Foodchain as well as The Food Brigade, international and local organizations to rescue and redirect food supplies to shelters. Author of Cafe Pasqual's Cookbook: Spirited Recipes from Santa Fe and Cooking with Cafe Pasqual's: Recipes from Santa Fe's Renowned Corner Cafe.

Moved to Albuquerque in 1945. Geography teacher. Active in numerous civic organizations, several of which she chaired. Co-author, with Ruth K. Hall, of The First Ladies of New Mexico.

Santa Fe. Playwright, article writer. Developer of Future WAVE Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to shifting our culture of violence to a culture of peace. Writer, editor, and producer of "The World Is My Country" show for PBS.

Lives in Massachusetts and Santa Fe. Sportswriter and book reviewer; longtime baseball writer for Sports Illustrated. Author of many books on baseball including The greatest game ever pitched : Juan Marichal, Warren Spahn, and the pitching duel of the century.

Author of romance fiction, including My Killer My Love and Teach Me To Forget.

Northern New Mexico. Episcopal priest and public health expert, certified Gestalt therapist and adjunct faculty at Boston University School of Theology. International human/gay rights activist. Author of Acts of Forgiveness: Faith Journeys of a Gay Priest.

Pecos Valley. BA degree with honors in history and social sciences. Author of several books about horses and New Mexico history, primarily for young people, including Youth on the Santa Fe Trail and Hero: the horse that rescued me.

Santa Fe. Retired pediatrician and geneticist. Essays in several national publications. Author of The Other Madison.

(1938-2016) Photographer. Received degree from UNM; worked for several area periodicals.Co-founder of Clear Light Publishers. An activist for the promotion of Native culture, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council. Photographic works in many permanent collections. Books include Mother Earth, Father Sky : Pueblo and Navajo Indians of the Southwest and New Mexico.

Albuquerque. Author of Planning to Die - A Practical Guide to Funeral Planning and Final Arrangements.

Author of I Never Called Myself A Cowboy about his experiences growing up on ranches around New Mexico.

Ponderosa. Teacher and researcher. Author of several books for young people including Dancing Stones: Cliff Huggins in the American Southwest and Grandpa and the Christmas Crib. Author of the historical novel Dracula's Son and The Morgellons Pyramid tracing a rare disease through history.

Professor in the English Department of UNM from 1931 to her retirement in 1959. Sister to William A. Keleher; edited his books. Author of works on New Mexico history. Co-author, with Elsie Ruth Chant, of The Padre of Isleta: The Story of Father Anton Docher and Los Paisanos.

(1886-1972) Albuquerque. Historian and lawyer; founding partner in the Keleher and McLeod law firm. Held several posts in state government, and served as president of the board of regents of New Mexico State University. Author of several works including Maxwell Land Grant : A New Mexico Item and Memoirs, 1892-1969 : a New Mexico item.

Raton. Writer, photographer. Contributor to Max Evans & a few friends: the 90th birthday book.

Cuervo. Degree from New Mexico State University. Author of the novel The Comanchero's Grave.

Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at UNM. Articles focusing on civil rights rhetoric, community literacy, and ethnolinguistic diversity in many edited collections and journals. Author of several books including Vicente Ximenes, LBJ's Great Society, and Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric and Hector P. Garcia: Everyday Rhetoric and Mexican American Civil Rights.

Santa Fe resident, RN in Albuquerque. Author of Where Night is Day: The World of the ICU about his experiences in healthcare.

(1942-2016). James Leroy Kelly. Silver City. Creator of the Silver City poet laureate program, co-founder of the Southwest Festival of the Written Word. Writer of articles for numerous publications.

Santa Fe. Public Radio host noted for his "From the Plaza" interviews. Author of The best of From the Plaza : interviews and opinions from the Plaza of Santa Fe.

Author of Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie: Tribal Tales from the Heart of a Cultural Revolution.

Albuquerque. Author/illustrator of the science fiction novel The Creatures of American Science.

Santa Fe author of fantasy romance and erotica.

Staffer and archivist at New Mexico State University, Rio Grande Special Collections. Contributor to Out of the shadows : the women of southern New Mexico.

Professor of history at UNM, specializing in the history of labor. Reviewer for Choice magazine. Editor of / contributor to several works including Labor in New Mexico : unions, strikes, and social history since 1881 and Building New Mexico : the experience of a carpenters union in the Southwest.

Albuquerque. Experience as an Air Traffic Controller. Writer of articles on solar energy, sustainable living, solar cooking, and organic gardening. Winner of several awards for photography and short stories. Author of several books including Creating Microclimates for High Desert Gardening and The Solar Chef: A Southwestern Recipe Book for Solar Cooking and Air to Ground : a guide for pilots to the world of air traffic control and aviation weather .

Resident of New Mexico since 1956. Photographer with works in the Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery in Santa Fe. Photographer for several books including Rock Art in New Mexico and Ghost Towns of New Mexico : playthings of the wind.

Pen name of author Lois Duncan.

Northern New Mexico. Author of the biography Violeta Parra: By the Whim of the Wind.

Professor in the Department of History at UNM. Involved in the Vargas Project, translating and collecting the journals of Diego de Vargas. Other works include The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776 and Kiva, cross, and crown : the Pecos Indians and New Mexico, 1540-1840.

Albuquerque. Ph.D. in Organizational Learning and Instructional Technologies; speaker and teacher. Author of the Prairie Heritage series, the Girls from the Mountain series, the Laynie Portland series, and the Nanostealth series.

Associate professor at UNM. Published in numerous periodicals including The Utne Reader. Author of A Poetic Inventory of the Sandia Mountains and Best Tent Camping: New Mexico.

Albuquerque. Co-author, with Peggy Spencer, of 50 ways to leave your 40s : living it up in life's second half.

Silver City native. Outdoor enthusiast with a keen interest in new arid-land food crops and horticulture, especially desert plants. Contributor to Field Guide to the Trees of the Gila Region of New Mexico.

Pen name of Albuquerque author Linda Triegel. Under this name, author of numerous historical and Regency romances including My Lord Guardian and My Lady Mischief.

Ruidoso. Writer of articles for area periodicals. Author of Ruidoso: The Carmon Phillips Collection for the Images of America series. For the same series, co-author (with photographer Herb Brunell) of Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs.

Albuquerque. Author of the Gabe McKenna mystery series the first book of which, Red Gold, won the Tony Hillerman Award in the 2015 Arizona/New Mexico Book Awards.

Santa Fe. Fiction and non-fiction with a focus on creativity, invention, and artificial intelligence. Author of several books of poetry including Poetry for the Digital Age; a biography, Destiny Strikes Twice: James L. Breese Aviator and Inventor; the novels Free Will Odyssey and Love Byte; and several memoirs.

El Prado. Professor emeritus and former head of the English department at Texas A&M University. Writes on American literature, rhetoric, and environmental studies. Co-author, with Jacqueline S. Palmer, of Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America and Nuclear New Mexico: A Historical, Natural, and Virtual Tour.

First archivist of the St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe. Co-author, with Marcus S. Smith, of The hospital at the end of the Santa Fe trail : a photographic history of St. Vincent Hospital, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Chairman of the Board for the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe. Contributor to La Fonda Then & Now.

Santa Fe. Educator, especially in media. Musician. Author of Rediscovering Christanna: Native Worlds and Governor Spotswood's Fort and the Young Adult historical fantasy novel The Planting of Bo-Ken.

(1924-2009) Served three terms as Governor of New Mexico. Author of the biography, "as told to" Charles Poling, Cowboy in the Roundhouse : a political life.

Native New Mexican; grew up on a ranch in northern New Mexico. Photographer, writer of articles for a wide variety of periodicals. Co-author of By the way-- : a guide to New Mexico's 25 scenic byways and New Mexico for Dummies; author of King of the road : adventures along the friendly byways of New Mexico.

Santa Fe. Writer and playwright whose nonfiction, plays, and novels have won numerous awards. Author of A Woman Walking , the novel Morning Light, and Dancing With Wonder: Self-Discovery Through Stories.

Hillsboro. Author of Sadie Orchard: The Time of Her Life, updated by the Hillsboro Historical Society as Sadie Orchard: Madam of New Mexico's Black Range.

Albuquerque. Author of contemporary romance fiction.

Los Alamos. Archeologist, journalist, poet, essayist. Author of several science fiction short stories and several books including The Gaean Enchantment.

Grew up in Santa Fe; Albuquerque. Author of urban fantasy and science fiction in several series including the Dark Streets and Chameleon Assassin series.

Santa Fe. Author of several books for children including Barn Kitty and The Little Church Mouse of the Loretto Chapel.

Santa Fe. Master’s Degree in Painting from UNM. Author and illustrator of Looking for Tula.

Author of New Mexico Trade Tokens and Turmoil on the Rio Grande : the territorial history of the Mesilla Valley, 1846-1865.

(1867-1937) AKA: Hastiin Klah. Born near Fort Wingate New Mexico. Noted Navajo artist, medicine man, singer, and weaver. Co-founder, with friend Mary Cabot Wheelwright, of the House of Navajo Religion, later the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art and eventually known as the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe. Worked with Wheelwright to record and preserve Navajo ceremonial practices and art. Considered controversial by some Navajo traditionalists for incorporating sand painting imagery into weavings. Author, as told to Wheelwright, of Navajo Creation Myth - the Story of the Emergence.

Albuquerque. P.erformer, poet, and playwright. Poetry in several journals and anthologies. Author of several plays including What Next.

Native New Mexican. Degree in sociology from the State University of New York at Albany; master's degree in public administration from New Mexico State University. Longterm staffer with the New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute working in information transfer and coordinating conferences and symposia. Author of numerous technical reports, proceedings, and newsletters. Editor of One Hundred Years of Water Wars in New Mexico, 1912-2012.

Santa Fe. Noted art historian, dealer, and self-avowed “art explorer” who tracks down overlooked or mis-identified works of arts by masters. Author of Leonardo's Holy Child : the discovery of a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece : a connoisseur's search for lost art in America : a memoir of discovery.

(1902-1995) Moved to Taos in 1927. Degree from University of California at Berkeley. Writer, poet, composer; amateur anthropologist and natural historian. Reporter in California, where he and wife artist Gene Kloss lived part of the time. Wrote about music and Native American chants. Author of several poetry collections including The Taos Crescent.

(1905-1960) Anthropologist, ethnographer, social theorist. Studied at various universities, including as a Rhodes Scholar. Came to New Mexico due to ill health; returned later to teach at UNM then gained a PhD at Harvard. Served as president of the American Anthropological Association. Did extensive research regarding social groups of the Southwest including the Zuni and Navajo. Author / co-author of several works including To the Foot of the Rainbow and Beyond the Rainbow about travels in the Southwest, and Mirror for Man and Navajo Means People

Author of the New Frontiers, Wizards, and Darwin's World science fiction series, and Western novels.

Lives part of the time in Taos. Producer, writer, publicist. Author of books about Hollywood and publishing; screenwriter of several works including Behind the Laughter.

Pojoaque Valley. Playwright with works performed in New Mexico and other states. Poet with numerous collections including Ghosting America. Author of the story collection Black Mesa Blues.

Author of My Horse Can Outrun Your Horse about his experiences in the horse racing world at various locations around New Mexico from the 1930s through into the 1990s.

(1914-2006) Nancy Dunbar Corbusier Knox. Santa Fe. Historian, historical researcher, newspaper reporter, prolific author of non-fiction and fiction, and writer of documentary movie screenplays. In 1941 she and her husband made a film in New Mexico for the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Author of One Woman's World War II about her experiences in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and the American Red Cross, and Santa Fe in the fifties : a memoir of change in the city different during the postwar era.

Award-winning multimedia journalist, contributor to the PBS News Hour and public radio news programs. Winner of two Emmy awards for coverage of the drug war in Ciudad Juárez. Southern New Mexico border reporter for The Albuquerque Journal.

Albuquerque. Hiker and aviation crash explorer. Wilderness Search and Rescue volunteer for seven years. Author of the novels Answers and Bloodlines, and SAR - We Have A Mission.

Santa Fe. Graduate of St. John's College. Freelance writer. Articles in New Mexico magazine.

Author of A Santa Fe Story: A Novel of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt.

Albuquerque. Clinical Neuropsychologist with degrees in clinical psychology and education. Author of HOW MY BRAIN WORKS: A Guide to Understanding It Better and Keeping It Healthy.

Albuquerque guitar player and songwriter. Freelance writer of articles for national periodicals including New Mexico Magazine, columnist for Entrepeneur Magazine, contributor to CNET's Crave blog.

Author of New Buffalo: Journals from a Taos Commune.

Las Vegas New Mexico. Ph.D. from the University of Denver. Taught at the university level for many years. Author of Nosotros : a study of everyday meanings in Hispano New Mexico; contributor to Expressing New Mexico : Nuevomexicano creativity, ritual, and memory.

Artist, formerly co-owner of a fishing guide service out of Santa Fe. Contributor to Fly Fishing in Northern New Mexico.

Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. Articles in numerous professional journals; work featured in national news outlets including The Washington Post. Author of Race Brokers : housing markets and segregation in 21st-century urban America.

Served as Assistant Professor in the departments of American Studies and Anthropology at UNM; now with the department of Geography at Berkeley. Author of Understories : the political life of forests in northern New Mexico. Co-editor of Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference.

Photo Curator for the Palace of the Governors, New Mexico History Museum. Involved in Irwin Klein and the New Settlers : photographs of counterculture in New Mexico and ¡Órale! lowrider : custom made in New Mexico.

Northern New Mexico. Author of several books for children including Same, Same But Different and My Travelin' Eye and Luna and Me : the true story of a girl who lived in a tree to save a forest.

Retired public health administrator and a former Associate Director of the UNM Institute for Public Health. Degrees from Harvard and UNM. Author of the book Camino, poetry and photographs about her pilgrimage hike along the Camino de Santiago in Spain.

Santa Fe. New York Times-bestselling author, an award-winning journalist and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. Author / co-author of numerous popular works on human performance including Bold: how to go big, create wealth, and impact the world and Abundance: the future is better than you think and The Art of Impossible.

Served as President of the New Mexico Historical Society. Author of Perfect Crystals & Valuable Ores: Perspectives on New Mexico History and An alternative view of New Mexico's 1837 Rebellion.

Professor of Biology at the University of the Southwest, Lovington. Author of Rooney the Blue-Tailed Mouse: The Day Rooney Got his Blue Tail.

AKA: Mary Oishi. Albuquerque. Public radio personality with KUNM. Poet with works in numerous periodicals and anthologies including Harwood Anthology. Author of Spirit Birds They Told Me; co-author with daughter Aja Oishi of a book of poetry, Rock Paper Scissors.

Taos. Author of Mail order selling made easier : a step-by-step guide to organizing and carrying out a successful direct marketing program and many websites on book and website promotion and marketing.

Masters degree in Art Education from UNM. Taught elementary school. Co-author, with Patricia Byrnes, of Southwestern Arts and Crafts Projects, ages 5-12 .

Albuquerque author of the Warbonnet mystery series.

Born and raised in New Mexico, now of Denver Colorado. Retired accountant. Author of the novel Other Duties as Assigned.

Albuquerque author of paranormal romance and fantasy. Author of numerous novels and series, including the 19th Century Werewolf series. New York Times bestselling author.

Aztec, New Mexico. Founding co-director of the Bisti Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project in New Mexico. Writing teacher; author of many books for young people including Remembering Grandpa and The Closet Ghosts and Monsoon.

Taos. Grew up around the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. Writer of articles for numerous periodicals including the Navajo Times and Arizona Highways. Author of several works including Navajos Wear Nikes: a reservation life and Medicine Women: the story of the first Native American nursing school and House Gods : Sustainable Buildings and Renegade Builders. Co-author, with Edison Eskeets, of Send A Runner: a Navajo honors the Long Walk.

Deming. Historian and educator. Author of the Deming volume in the Images of America series.

Santa Fe. M.A. in Creative Writing from UNM. Poet, works featured in numerous literary and genre magazines. Publisher of Fickle Muses, an online journal of mythic poetry and fiction. Author of several collections of poetry including God-Chaser.

Northern New Mexico. Contemporary romance, historic time travel. Co-author of Demystifying the Beats: How to Write a Killer Book.

Raised in Albuquerque. Journalist for the Albuquerque Tribune, columnist for the Albuquerque Journal. Creative writing degree from UNM. Author of City at the Crossroads : The Pandemic, Protests, and Public Service in Albuquerque, published by the City of Albuquerque's Department of Arts & Culture.

Santa Fe. Playwright, screenwriter. MA in Creative Writing. Author of many short stories and the novel Marchlands. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize.

PhD with extensive experience in health care administration and in health funding and policy. Director of New Mexico Health Services Consulting and is the founder and board president of New Mexico Health Connections. Contributor to New Mexico 2050.

Paleontologist at UNM. Author of The Paleontology of New Mexico (2008), an updating of the classic Fossils of New Mexico.

Santa Fe. Filmmaker. Author of Take Wing and Fly Here about the world of competitive birding.

Grew up in Albuquerque, where his father worked for the Atomic Energy Commission. Worked for the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory. Author of several works about the Manhattan Project years in Los Alamos including City of Fire : Los Alamos and the birth of the Atomic Age, 1943-1945 and Oppenheimer: The Years of Risk. Co-author with Whitley Streiber of the novels Nature's End and Warday and the Journey Onward.

Santa Fe. Executive editor of Chronicles of the Trail, journal of the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Trail Association. Co-author, with Spencer R. Herrera, of Hotel Mariachi : urban space and cultural heritage in Los Angeles.

Las Cruces. Degree from New Mexico State University and teacher there. Fiction writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Co-author of the guidebook Trails of the Guadalupes; author of the novels South of the Big Four and Churchgoers.

(1932-2006) John Harry Kutz. Albuquerque author, rock-climber, and environmental and human rights activist. Best known for two books on legends and mysteries of New Mexico: Mysteries and Miracles of New Mexico and More Mysteries and Miracles of New Mexico. Also wrote Grassroots New Mexico : a history of citizen activism and (released posthumously) The Wild West Never Died : true crime tales of 20th century New Mexico.

Longtime northern New Mexico resident. Has worked as a farmhand, ranch hand, ranch cook, woodcutter, ski lift operator, shepherd, stockman and adobe brick layer. Has served as a Taos County Deputy Sheriff, then an investigator with the District Attorney's Office, Deputy Medical Investigator and Magistrate Judge. Works featured in the anthologies Voices of New Mexico and More Voices of New Mexico. Author of KITE and other short stories of New Mexico.