New Mexico Authors

(1945-2017) Albuquerque. Professor emeritus in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of New Mexico. Internationally recognized photographer also working in collages and mixed media, exhibitions in museums worldwide, images utilized in numerous publications and films. Contributor to New Mexico Historical Review. Photographer on many works including Nuclear Enchantment and Buried Cars with Joseph Traugott. Author of the novel The Race: Tales in Flight.

Born and raised in northern New Mexico; resident of Albuquerque East Mountains area. Author of numerous short stories for national magazines. Author of numerous fantasy works, including the Immortal series and the Blood of the Kindred series. Also writes as P.G. Nagle.
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Pen name of Albuquerque East Mountains author Pati Nagle. Under this name has written a number of books about the Civil War in New Mexico and the Southwest: Glorieta Pass, The Guns of Valverde, Galveston, and Red River.
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(1904-1991) Born in Las Vegas New Mexico and grew up there. Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. Author of several books including Las Vegas and Uncle Joe; the New Mexico I remember.

Diné, Utah & New Mexico. Degree in education; has taught for three decades around the Navajo Nation often teaching Navajo. Poet with works in numerous publications and anthologies including The Diné Reader. Author of a book for young people, Sacajawea : Translator and Guide.

Santa Fe. Illustrator for books and periodicals including Time magazine. Art featured in the 2002 Winter Olympics opening and closing ceremonies programs. Winner of numerous awards; works in many collections. Author of several books for children including Go West!.

Albuquerque. Has been a documentarian, video editor, publisher, and a paralegal at the Public Defenders Office. Author of Escaping the Arroyo, a true-crime book about some murders in Albuquerque.
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Santa Clara Pueblo. Founder of Mujeras Hablan. Contributor to The Pueblo Food Experience Cookbook: whole food of our ancestors.

Santa Clara Pueblo. Sociologist, Ph.D. from University of New Mexico. Has served as consultant to museums, language programs, and various agencies engaged in language and cultural preservation. Co-Director of the Northern Pueblos Institute from 2005-2010; vice president of the board of the Indigenous Languages Institute. Author / co-author / editor of several works including My Life in San Juan Pueblo: Stories of Esther Martinez and Sengbeh Enyukeh: Water-Jar Boy: A Tewa Story.

Santa Clara Pueblo; potter and poet. Widely exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Smithsonian. Noted for distinctive humorous clay works, also works with recycled materials. Author of Mud Woman: poems from clay which features her pottery and poetry.
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Co-author, with Arthur Bachrach and Nita Murphy, of Millicent Rogers: A Life in Full.

Author of Remembering : a guide to New Mexico cemeteries, monuments and memorials and Along the high road : a guide to the scenic route between Espanola and Taos.

Albuquerque. Degrees from Stanford and UNM. Co-author, with Mari-Luci Jaramillo, of Sacred Seeds : a girl, her abuelos, and the heart of northern New Mexico.

Author of The Lodge 1899-1969 Cloudcroft, NM and The Cloud-climbing Railroad: Highest Point on the Southern Pacific.

Taos. Photographer and author of New Mexico's Sanctuaries, Retreats, and Sacred Places and Living on the Spine : a woman's life in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
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Degree from UNM. Served as President of the New Mexico School of Mines (now New Mexico Tech). Author of the technical handbook Blast Waves involving the propagation of pressure waves through materials.

Gallup. Book editor and designer; provides publishing advice to independent authors. Member of numerous writer's and publisher's associations. Author of Self-Publishing Wizard or Wannabe: How to Hire the Best Editor, Designer, or Book Guide.

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

Lives in Colorado, Texas, and Las Cruces New Mexico. Short stories in many periodicals including Esquire and The New Yorker. Several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Author of numerous short story collections and novels including Nobody's Girl.

Writer of articles for regional publications, especially New Mexico Magazine for which she eventually served as managing editor. In 2015 received a silver Writer of the Year honor from the International Regional Magazine Association. Worked as marketer for the New Mexico History Museum.

Ruidoso. Instructor at Eastern New Mexico University. Activist for environmental issues and immigration. Writer of essays and opinion pieces; screenwriter and documentary filmmaker.

Masters from UNM; guest instructor at Continuing Education UNM. Fine artist with works in many private collections. Conference organizer. Writer of articles for periodicals including New Mexico Magazine.

Albuquerque. Author of Whispers to the Wind : reflections on life in poetry and prose.

Youth Services librarian at the Rio Rancho Public Library. Winner of several awards including the Coretta Scott King Award. Author of numerous works including Juneteenth and Who Will I Be, Lord? and Bad News for Outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshall.

Silver City. Online writing teacher for the UCLA Extension School. Author of the Tracy Eaton mystery series, the Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery series, and stand-alone novels.

Author of The Native Market of the Spanish New Mexican Craftsmen, Santa Fe, 1933-1940. Co-author / -editor, with Edna Robertson, of Artists of the Canyons and Caminos: Santa Fe, the early years, a collection of interviews with Santa Fe artists.

(1887-1970) Schoolteacher from Wisconsin who joined the Indian Service and ended up in the Four Corners area. She and her husband operated a trading post south of Shiprock, after which she moved to Albuquerque. Influential in establishing the Museum of Navaho Ceremonial Art in Santa Fe. Writer of articles for periodicals including New Mexico magazine, primarily sympathetic views of Navajo life and spiritual practices. Collector of folk tales; wrote poetry based upon Navajo materials. Author of several books including Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant and Hosteen Klah : Navaho Medicine Man and Sandpainter and Navaho Neighbors.

Professor Emerita of Dance at the University of New Mexico, where she also served as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine Arts. Author of a biography of dancer teacher and choreographer Mary Wigman.

Ribera New Mexico. Artist whose collages have been exhibited extensively in the US, Mexico, and South America. Has written artist profiles for the Santa Fe New Mexican; published four books on Native American studies for the Center for Applied Research in Education. Author of New Mexico Artists at Work.

Ph.D. from Wayne State University. Teacher of Technical & Professional Communication (TPC). Taught at New Mexico Tech then at UNM where she serves as Assistant Chair for Core Writing and TPC Program Coordinator. Author of The Pluralist Imagination from East to West in American Literature which includes examination of the writings of D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

(1921-2014) Navajo, born in Chi Chil Tah New Mexico. Enlisted in 1942 and became a Navajo Code Talker. Served in the Pacific during WWII and in Korea. Co-author (with Judith Avila) of Code Talker : the first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII.

(1853-?) AKA: Mrs. Bowyer. Englishwoman from a wealthy family who arrived in New Mexico's Mesilla Valley in 1896 and stayed on to run a small ranch. Author of several romance novels set in the area and Observations of a Ranch Woman in New Mexico.

Splits his time between Maine and Santa Fe. Works in numerous regional and national publications including Esquire. Winner of several writing awards. Author of the story collection Slow Monkeys and several novels including Hull Creek and Blue Summer.

Taos novelist and essayist, best known for "The New Mexico Trilogy": The Milagro Beanfield War; The Magic Journey; and The Nirvana Blues, all of them presenting a uniquely New Mexico storyscape; The Milagro Beanfield War was made into a movie of the same title, directed by Robert Redford and filmed in New Mexico. Author and photographer on The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn, a paean to New Mexico. Author of I Got Mine : Confessions of a Midlist Writer.

Silver City. Artist. Author of Secrets of the Blue Door: A true story of bringing closure to sexual abuse at a ranch for boys detailing his involvement in exposing sexual abuse by a priest at a boy's ranch in New Mexico.

Aztec. Retired National Park Service Ranger. Writes a blog on travel. Author of a book for young people, The Dreaded Cliff.

Master Gardener and Certified Arborist. Reporter and columnist for Albuquerque periodicals; wrote the Q&A column for the Albuquerque Tribune from the 1970 through the 1980s, and a gardening column. Author of Enchanted Gardening : gardening in the Land of Enchantment and Atrisco to Zena Lona : a snappy survey of Albuquerque street names.

Alamogordo. Author of the poetry collection Under the Mistletoe and the children's book Sleepyhead & His Adventures.

(1941-2019) Santa Fe. Served as writer-in-residence at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos. Freelance copy-writer specializing in direct mail marketing. Co-author of Ballet Class Perspectives: For Adult Beginning Students.

Raton. Journalist and photographer. Author/editor of numerous works about life in New Mexico, including New Mexico : an explorer's guide and New Mexico's tasty traditions : recollections, recipes and photos and Return to Abo: a novel of the Southwest.
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(1937-2016) Santa Fe. Photographer, author of several books including Desert Wetlands and New Mexico: Images of a Land and Its People and The People: Pueblo Portraits and Africa, The Holocausts of Rwanda and Sudan which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
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Of a Bernalillo family. Degrees from UCLA, then taught at NMSU where he received an Outstanding Faculty Award in 2000. Associate Professor at Indiana University, in the Departments of History and Latino Studies. Author / editor of several books on Latino history, including The Language of Blood : the making of Spanish-American identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930s.

Santa Fe. Illustrator, audio producer, game warden, editor, park ranger. Widely travelled. Co-author/photographer of By the way-- : a guide to New Mexico's 25 scenic byways.

Grew up in Albuquerque. Formerly with the rock band, The Electra. Founder of the Calvary Chapel Education Association. Television and radio host; produced and directed a documentary series on Albuquerque's Pimentel and Sons guitar makers. Teaches church history through Calvary Albuquerque; author of numerous works on religion and teaching.
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Photographer. Senior staff member at the School of American Research. Author/editor of numerous works on Southwestern archaeology and history, including Ancient ruins of the Southwest : an archaeological guide and New Light on Chaco Canyon. Author of his memoir, Saigon To Pleiku: a counterintelligence agent in Vietnam's Central Highlands, 1962-1963.
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Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford. Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UNM. Works on travel writing, early modern drama, picaresque fiction, and political pamphleteering have appeared in a number of academic journals and edited volumes including The Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies. Author of Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity.

Associate professor of Spanish at UNM. Co-editor of A History of Mexican Literature and Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico: Literary and Cultural Inquiries. Co-author, with Enrique R. Lamadrid, of the bilingual book for children Sisters in Blue / Hermanas de azul: Sor María de Ágreda Comes to New Mexico.

(1922-2005) Photographer. Instructor in art and art history at UNM. First photography curator at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Recipient of numerous grants including from the National Endowment for the Arts. Author of A Dance with Death : Soviet airwomen in World War II. Subject of Flight of Spirit: The Photographs of Anne Noggle.

Placitas. Archaeologist, technical writer. Recipient of a 2018 Governor's Preservation Honor Award for work at Casa Grande Ruins and Montezuma Castle while with the National Park Service. Author / co-author of several works including Mesa Verde Ancient Architecture.

AKA: Bobbi Salinas. (1943-2013) Santa Fe. Chicana activist, bilingual teacher, author, publisher and artist. Author of bilingual books for children and works about Indo-Hispanic folk art traditions, including Los Tres Cerdos: Nacho, Tito and Miguel and La Cenicienta Latina and Folk Art Traditions.

Albuquerque. Ph.D from UNM, instructor at UNM Continuing Ed. Historian; author of The Blackfoot Confederacy, 1880-1920: A Comparative Study of Canadian and U.S. Indian Policy. Author of the historical novels The Serpent's Crown: a novel of medieval Cyprus and The Sixth Surrender about Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Professor of Geography at the University of Oklahoma. Author of The Hispano Homeland and El Cerrito, New Mexico : eight generations in a Spanish village.

Santa Fe. Longtime reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican. Co-author, with Max Evans, of Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and all our friends. Contributor to Max Evans & a few friends: the 90th birthday book.

Sandia Park. Artist / illustrator. Author of several historical novels, the Fr. Jake mystery series about a Michigan priest who moves to a small New Mexico parish, and the Getorius & Arcadia mystery series set in the Mediterranean of the 5th century.
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Sandia Park. Dance choreographer, sculptor. Author of Plateye: An African Spirit of Fear Haunts Post-Colonial Georgia.

(1924-2014) Moved to Santa Fe in 1964. Taught at the College of Santa Fe and UNM, and later was a program director for the New Mexico Arts Division's Artists in the Schools program. Author of several books on Native American history including Los Comanches : the horse people, 1751-1845; author of several books of poetry including Beyond the Mountains, Beyond the Mountains.

Hillsboro, of an original ranch family there and member of the Hillsboro Historical Society. Co-author, with Harley Shaw, Craig Springer, and twin sister Matti Nunn-Harrison, of Around Hillsboro for the Images of America series.

Ph.D. from UNM. Served as director and chief curator of the Visual Arts Program at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Curator of numerous exhibits on New Mexico Hispanic artists. Author of Sin nombre : Hispana and Hispano artists of the New Deal era; contributor to Expressing New Mexico : Nuevomexicano creativity, ritual, and memory.

Albuquerque. Award-winning literary translator specializing in Scandinavian languages. Translator on numerous popular titles including works by Peter Hoeg, Singrid Undset, Karin Fossum, and Henning Mankell.

Hillsboro, of an original ranch family there. Co-author, with other members of the Hillsboro Historical Society, of Around Hillsboro for the Images of America series.

Son of anthropologist and photographer Jesse Nusbaum. Archaeologist. Author of Deric with the Indians, AKA Deric in Mesa Verde. Later wrote as Deric O'Bryan.

AKA: Rosemary Rife, Rosemary Lewis Rife, Rosemary Lewis Nusbaum. (1907-1990) Santa Fe. Nurse and artist. Spouse of Jesse Nusbaum. Author of numerous short stories and poems that appeared in publications including The Santa Fean and The New Mexican and The Denver Post. Also wrote song lyrics. Author of The City Different and the Palace: The Palace of the Governors, Its Role in Santa Fe History, including Jesse Nusbaum's Restoration Journals and Tierra Dulce: Reminiscences from the Jesse Nusbaum Papers.

AKA: Val Nye. Santa Fe. Has served as Library Director at Santa Fe Community College. Involved with the American Library Association and the New Mexico Library Foundation. Book reviewer for Library Journal. Co-author, with Kathy Barco, of Breakfast New Mexico Style : a dining guide to more than 100 favorite, fancy, funky and family friendly restaurants which includes reading recommendations for each restaurant's surroundings and when the eateries were mentioned in books written by New Mexico authors.

MFA in Writing & Literature. Poet with works in numerous publications and anthologies including Adobe Walls and Malpais Review. Founder of Jules' Poetry Playhouse in the Albuquerque area. Membership Chair of the New Mexico State Poetry Society. Co-editor of the Poets Speak anthology series. Author of several collections of poetry including Behind the Volcanoes and Homesick, then which won a NM/AZ Book Award.